1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 289
1.1 Announcements
1.1.1 Fedora Development News
1.1.1.1 Rebuild for GCC-4.7
1.1.2 Fedora Events
1.1.2.1 Upcoming Events (December 2011 - May 2012)
1.1.2.2 Past Events
1.1.2.3 Additional information
1.2 Fedora In the News
1.2.1 Three greatest successes in Linux world 2011
1.2.2 4 security features in Fedora 16
1.2.3 Interview: Harish Pillay, Global Community and Technology
Architect, Red Hat Inc
1.2.4 Kororaa Linux 16 - A Fedora++ Distribution
1.3 Security Advisories
1.3.1 Fedora 16 Security Advisories
1.3.2 Fedora 15 Security Advisories
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 289 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 289[1] for the two weeks ending January 3,
2012. What follows are some highlights from this issue.
Happy New Year, Fedora folk! This first issue of 2012 is an abbreviated one,
but we we at FWN want to ensure that we have some Fedora content coming to you
every week! In this week's issue, we cover one development announcement, a
rebuild of rawhide with GCC 4.7. We've also got pointers to the many Fedora
events happening over the next few months globally. In Fedora In the News this
week, four articles/postings related to Fedora, including an interview with
Harish Pillay, Global Community and Technology Architect, Red Hat Inc, a review
of Fedora-based Kororaa Linux 16, and two personal reflections on linux
distributions in 2011 and Fedora's strength in security. We close the issue
with security patches released in the last two weeks for Fedora 15 and 16.
Enjoy!
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-- Announcements --
Fedora Announcements are the place where you can find the major coverage from
the Fedora Project including general announcements[1], development
announcements[2] and Fedora Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
* http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
* http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
There were no general announcements during this issue period.
-- Fedora Development News --
The Development Announcement[1] list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC
announce-only list for Fedora development.
Acceptable Types of Announcements
Policy or process changes that affect developers.
Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
Tools changes that affect developers.
Schedule changes
Freeze reminders
Unacceptable Types of Announcements
Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
Discussion
Anything else not mentioned above
* https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce
--- Rebuild for GCC-4.7 ---
Dennis Gilmore announced[1]:
"[S]tarting immediately there is going to be a mass rebuild of rawhide for
gcc-4.7 that landed yesterday.
as approved by FESCo (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/739) packagers will
have just over a week, until Thursday Jan 12 to build packages themselves.
After that date releng will kick off an automated mass rebuild of everything
else.
So please get building as Fedora 17 branching is less than 5 weeks away. we
need all built by then
Thanks
Releng"
*
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-January/000874.html
-- Fedora Events --
The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to
identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by
quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget
planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an
Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but
being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it
eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and
source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people
around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider
attending or volunteering near you!
Upcoming Events (December 2011 - May 2012)
North America (NA)[1]
Central & South America (LATAM): [2]
Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
*
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q4_.28December_2011_-_February_2012.29
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29
*
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q4_.28January_2012_-_March_2012.29
*
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY12_Q4_.28December_2011_-_February_2012.29_2
--- Past Events ---
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/PastEvents
--- Additional information ---
Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community
members.
Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional
responsibility.
Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
-- Fedora In the News --
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is
re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1].
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
* http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/
--- Three greatest successes in Linux world 2011 ---
Rahul Sundaram posted[1]:
"Fedora produced two released this year, same as OpenSuSE and Ubuntu And both
of them were lovely from my point of view. Fedora 15 was the first distribution
to feature GNOME3 as default desktop environment. And it was already awesome,
even though not without a glitch. Fedora 16 became even better. What is about
Fedora KDE? As I have written, Fedora 15 KDE was very good, and Fedora 16 KDE
was even better."
The full discussion thread is available[2].
*
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-December/014160.html
*
http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2011/12/three-greatest-successes-in-linux-world.html
--- 4 security features in Fedora 16 ---
Rahul Sundaram posted[1]:
"The security features in Fedora make it one of my favorite Linux
distributions. And that is partly why it is in my list of the top 6 KDE
distributions of 2011, even though it takes some tweaking to get it to the it
just works state. I will take the security advantages of an operating system
over any user-friendliness weaknesses, provided those user-friendliness
weaknesses are not show stoppers."
The full post is available[2].
*
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-December/014161.html
* http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/12/13/4-security-features-in-fedora-16/
--- Interview: Harish Pillay, Global Community and Technology Architect, Red
Hat Inc ---
Rahul Sundaram posted[1]:
"When you design something or build something with security in mind, you are
always cognizant of the fact that you can have ten measures and if everything
works fine, that's great. But on the other side, the other person needs to
succeed just once! Whatever ten things you have that is successful, is done
away with this one failure. Well that is the story in the proprietary
perspective. In the open source perspective, everything that we build is
completely transparent. Everybody knows what we are building."
The full post is available[2].
*
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-December/014162.html
*
http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Features/Interview-Harish-Pillay-Global-Community-and-Technology_8152/0.html
--- Kororaa Linux 16 - A Fedora++ Distribution ---
Rahul Sundaram posted[1]:
"To get a better overview of Kororaa Linux, the ideas behind it, what it
includes and why, check their web page. My take on it is this - if you have
looked at Fedora before, and you didn't want to use it because of the
difficulty and tedium of getting a lot of common non-FOSS packages installed,
then you should take a look at Kororaa. Of course, if you are a FOSS-purist,
you are likely to think that Kororaa is an abomination."
The full article is available[2].
*
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/2011-December/014163.html
*
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff-10006480/kororaa-linux-16-a-fedora-distribution-10025052/
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce for
the period December 21, 2011 - January 3, 2012.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce
Contributing Writer: Pascal Calarco
--- Fedora 16 Security Advisories ---
glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.4 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071482.html
jasper-1.900.1-18.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071458.html
kernel-3.1.6-1.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071332.html
thunderbird-9.0-4.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071323.html
firefox-9.0-3.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071322.html
xulrunner-9.0-2.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071326.html
thunderbird-lightning-1.1-0.1.rc1.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071321.html
nss-3.13.1-9.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071325.html
nss-util-3.13.1-3.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071320.html
nss-softokn-3.13.1-14.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071324.html
icu-4.6-3.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071318.html
openstack-nova-2011.3-13.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071306.html
clearsilver-0.10.5-15.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071278.html
cacti-0.8.7i-2.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071210.html
moodle-2.0.6-1.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071200.html
perl-PAR-Packer-1.010-3.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071099.html
perl-PAR-1.002-5.fc16 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071098.html
--- Fedora 15 Security Advisories ---
icu-4.4.2-9.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071316.html
cacti-0.8.7i-2.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071225.html
clearsilver-0.10.5-15.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071213.html
moodle-1.9.15-1.fc15 -
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-December/071193.html
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