Fedora Project Board Update (2006-06-06)

2006-06-06 Thread Max Spevack
The summary from today's Fedora Project Board meeting is now available on the wiki. Among the topics discussed were version control, infrastructure, possibilities for the next FUDCon, Fedora Legacy, the testing project announced at the Red Hat Summit, and more.

readonly copy of fedora-advisory-board list

2006-06-08 Thread Max Spevack
Just wanted to let you all know that I've got a readonly copy of the fedora-advisory-board mailing list setup. fedora-advisory-board is the list on which the Fedora Board conducts its business, and its membership is comprised of the Fedora Board members, and many of the folks on different

Fedora Weekly News Issue 50

2006-06-12 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 50 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_50 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Project Board Update (2006-06-06) 2 Read-Only copy of fedora-advisory-board list 3 Fedora mentioned in Information Week 4 Puplet Icons

the push toward fc6

2006-06-13 Thread Max Spevack
My fellow Fedora-ites, Many of you have probably seen this, but for those who haven't, I would like to point your attention to an op-ed piece that was recently posted on distrowatch: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060612#opinion The author looks at the most recent

Unofficial FAQ Update: 2006-06-09

2006-06-19 Thread Max Kanat-Alexander
Howdy Fedora. I did a little update to the Unofficial Fedora FAQ. As always, the FAQ is at: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ * Updated the NTFS, ATI, and nVidia instructions to also work for dual-processor or dual-core machines. * Updated the Java

Fedora Weekly News Issue 51

2006-06-19 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 51 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_51 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Red Hat Magazine Issue 20 June 2006 2 Looking for a few good women (and men) 3 Interview with Max Spevack from the Fedora project 4

CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES OPEN VIDEO CONTEST WITH THE FEDORA PROJECT

2006-06-21 Thread Alex Maier
CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES OPEN VIDEO CONTEST WITH THE FEDORA PROJECT San Francisco, USA - June 20, 2006 Creative Commons and the Fedora Project are pleased to announce the Open Video Contest taking place now. The contest promotes flexible copyright, open media formats and the Fedora Project.

Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 1 (5.90)

2006-06-21 Thread Jesse Keating
Just two years ago, a brave test pilot by the name of Mike Melvill successfully guided SpaceShipOne 62 miles above California, USA, overcoming technical problems that could have proven tragic to become the first civilian to reach space, part of a team effort that won the ANSARI X Prize. A team of

Fedora Project Board Update (2006-06-20)

2006-06-21 Thread Max Spevack
The summary from yesterday's Fedora Project Board meeting is now available on the wiki. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2006-06-20 As always, your thoughts and comments are encouraged on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Max -- Max Spevack + http://people.redhat.com/mspevack/ + gpg key

Fedora Weekly News Issue 52

2006-06-30 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 52 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_52 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Open Video Contest takes place now 2 Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 1 (5.90) 3 A Fresh Look for Fedora Core 6 4 Phoronix: Fedora Core 6

Fedora Weekly News Issue 53

2006-07-05 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 53 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_53 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Core 4 Status Update 2 Red Hat CEO Says Linux Could Become U.S. Standard 3 Request for testing: DejaVu 2.7 font family 4 Mailing List

Introducing Fedora Women

2006-07-17 Thread Patrick W. Barnes
In an effort to support the women who use and develop Fedora, the Fedora Women program was launched last week. This new program provides a forum for communication between the women of Fedora, and it will eventually offer additional support to the women that help make Fedora what it is. The

FC6 Test2 Freeze Slip

2006-07-18 Thread Jeremy Katz
With the update to a 2.6.18-rc based kernel, Xen requires some more effort to get to working. Given that Xen is one of the big features for Fedora Core 6, trying to ship the second test release (and thus the feature freeze) without Xen seems like a less than ideal situation. Therefore, after

Fedora Project Board Update

2006-07-22 Thread Max Spevack
The meeting summary from the Board's 2006-07-18 meeting is now available. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Meetings/2006-07-18 Topics discussed include: + RPM, which needs continued followup and discussion with the community + Fedora Bugs (bugzilla.redhat.com) + Fedora Core, the package

fedoraproject.org wiki down

2006-08-03 Thread Bill Nottingham
The Fedora Project wiki is currently down. We are working to resolve the issue. Apologies for the inconvenience. Bill -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list

Re: fedoraproject.org wiki down

2006-08-04 Thread Patrick W. Barnes
On Thursday 03 August 2006 22:07, Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Fedora Project wiki is currently down. We are working to resolve the issue. Apologies for the inconvenience. A hardware failure was the cause of the problem. We have restored the site from a recent backup and

Fedora Core 4 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

2006-08-07 Thread Bill Nottingham
With the release of Fedora Core 6 Test 2, the Fedora Core Steering Committee would like to announce the transfer of Fedora Core 4 to the Fedora Legacy Project. For more information on the Fedora Legacy Project, or if you wish to join the team, please see http://fedoralegacy.org/. --

Fedora usability was born!

2006-08-07 Thread Damien Durand
Hello everyone, I announce that the Fedora usability Project was born.What's fedora Usability? The Fedora Usability project aims to provide coherence, accessibility and intuivity for all people using Fedora Core and its associated resources. Fedora must be easy and making things simple and

Join Fedora @ LinuxWorld SF 2006

2006-08-09 Thread Jack Aboutboul
Hitch yer saddles and get on yer ponies because Fedora is going west!! What? The Fedora Project booth (.org Pavilion #20) (http://tinyurl.com/gu3a2) and Birds of a Feather Session (http://tinyurl.com/krj2p) at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo San Francisco 2006! (http://www.linuxworldexpo.com)

Fedora Weekly News Issue 59

2006-08-14 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 59 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_59 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Join Fedora @ LinuxWorld SF 2006 2 Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 2 3 Fedora Core 4 Transferred to Fedora Legacy 4 Fedora Core 4 Support and

Fedora Weekly News Issue 60

2006-08-21 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 60 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_60 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Max Spevack: Fedora on Slashdot 2 Jesse Keating: Fedora Legacy Answers 3 Rahul Sundaram: Red Hat and Intellectual Property Reform 4 Luke

What's been up to FedoraNEWS.ORG?

2006-08-25 Thread Thomas Chung
As we have reached our 60th Issue[1] of Fedora Weekly News, I thought it would be a good time to look back what's been up to FedoraNEWS.ORG for next few month. Looking back, it's been quite a journey for FedoraNEWS.ORG when it was first launched on 2003-11-09[2]. It started as my personal web

Fedora Core Live Spins Released!

2006-08-28 Thread Robert 'Bob' Jensen
Fedora Unity releases Fedora Core 5 Live-Spin ISO images. Official Fedora Live images are something we all have been looking forward to seeing in the Fedora Community. Kadischi will be the tool to create such live images. Fedora Unity has recently joined forces with Kadischi to help provide

Unofficial FAQ Update: 2006-09-17

2006-09-18 Thread Max Kanat-Alexander
Hey folks. :-) I have a nice FAQ update for ya, today: http://www.fedorafaq.org/ * We have some new translations, and even more on the way. * Changed the way that the Java instructions work, so that they work with the latest version of Java. * I've

Release Notes freeze for FC6

2006-09-25 Thread Paul W. Frields
Release notes will be frozen on the wiki for translation this Saturday, 23 September 2006. Any content not updated there will not be translated, and will not be in the FC6 final ISO spin. Please make your updates by Friday 22 September 2006 at 2359 UTC to ensure they are available to FC6 users.

[ANNOUNCE] New mailing list: fedora-selinux

2006-09-25 Thread James Morris
This is to announce the availablity of a new Fedora mailing list for SELinux-specific discussion. The list is for users and developers posting bug reports, avc messages, support questions answers, patches etc. For subscription details, see:

Fedora Weekly News Issue 61

2006-10-10 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 61 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_61 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Core 6 release date slip 2 FC6 Pre-release (Test4) 3 Ohio Linux Fest 2006 Summary 4 One Laptop Update 5 Red Hat KDE conference talk 6

Fedora Infrastructure Team - Help Wanted

2006-10-16 Thread Mike McGrath
The Fedora Infrastructure team is looking for some more volunteers to help better support the day to day activities of the Fedora Project contributors and developers. We are looking for dedicated, capable volunteers to help in all aspects of our Infrastructure. We're especially looking for the

Fedora Weekly News Issue 62

2006-10-16 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 62 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_62 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Inside Fedora Core 6 2 Naming of Fedora Core 6 3 Announcing Dribble a new addon repo 4 Red Hat Linux rises over Chicago 5 Opening doors to

Another slip in the FC6 schedule

2006-10-16 Thread Jesse Keating
Over the weekend we ran into a few more bugs with Fedora Core 6 that we decided were important enough to fix. There were some multilib compose issues (wrong packages landing in the wrong dirs), some translation files that would cause tracebacks in things like anaconda (whoops), and a

Fedora Weekly News Issue 63

2006-10-23 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 63 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_63 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Core 6 Tours 2 Fedora Infrastructure Team - Help Wanted 3 Calling for Desktop Environment Artists 4 Neat Things for Fedora Core 6 5

Announcing Fedora Core 6 (Zod)

2006-10-24 Thread Fedora Project
This is the announcement of Zod. Zod permits you to call him Fedora Core 6. Tremble, Earthlings, for Zod is released from the confines of testing. Zod intends to hammer the servers of the world ... starting TODAY! For those who chose the world-domination-acceptance package in your last

rpm.livna.org FC6 support

2006-10-24 Thread RPM Livna.org Team
Hello Dear Fedora Users. The rpm.livna.org team is proud to announce rpm.livna.org repository complete support starting today for the 6th release of the Fedora Core and Extras distribution. The rpm.livna.org repository provides amongst many packages: - Drivers with precompiled kernel modules :

Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spins Released

2006-10-24 Thread Robert 'Bob' Jensen
Fedora Unity releases Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spin ISO images. Official Fedora Live CD/DVD images are something many have been looking forward to seeing from the Fedora community. Fedora Unity has joined forces with the Kadischi development team to test and release live images, called

ATrpms for FC6

2006-10-25 Thread Axel Thimm
ATrpms is officially launching Fedora Core 6 support for i386, x86_64 and ppc. http://ATrpms.net/dist/fc6/ o The actual download location is http://dl.atrpms.net/. Mirrors are listed at http://atrpms.net/mirrors/ o stable, testing and bleeding, the three subrepos per distribution

Cooperative Bug Isolation for FC6

2006-10-30 Thread Ben Liblit
The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora Core 6. CBI (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/) is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions

Fedora Weekly News Issue 64

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 64 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_64 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Announcing Fedora Core 6 (Zod) 2 Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Live-Spins Released 3 Third Party FC6 Repositories Announcements 4 Phoronix: Fedora Core

Fedora Core 6 Common Issues

2006-10-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Here is a list of a commonly reported issues that have come up in Fedora Core 6 along with workarounds. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common Based on the reviews and user feedback this is our best our release of Fedora Core 6 yet. Active development for the next release of

Fedora Weekly News Issue 66

2006-11-13 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 66 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_66 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Summit Preparations 2 Fedora Ambassadors Day 3 Fedora Directory Server 1.0.4 is released 4 Announcing pungi-0.1.0 5 Why every child

Fedora Weekly News Issue 68

2006-11-27 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 68 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_68 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora 7 Artwork Proposals 2 Peace In Our Time 3 VanLUG Report 4 SCALE Readies 'Non-Commercial' Open Source Conference 5 Review: Fedora Core

fedora project is hiring

2006-12-01 Thread Max Spevack
As of today, Red Hat has an open position within the Fedora Project. http://redhat.hrdpt.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=1810 The job is for a Fedora Infrastructure leader. No point in writing more here, since I wrote the job description that you'll read if you click the link above.

Fedora Weekly News Issue 69

2006-12-04 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 69 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_69 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora Project is Hiring 2 Fedora Ambassadors Day 3 Eclipse on Linux Distributions Project 4 FUDCon Boston 2007 5 SCALE 5X Registration Opens

Fedora Weekly News Issue 70

2006-12-11 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 70 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_70 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Help Needed: Integration of Fedora Directory Server 2 Fedora 7 Theme Needs Your Help! 3 Mozilla Corp. to work more closely with Linux

RPM -- plans, goals, etc.

2006-12-14 Thread Max Spevack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There has been a lot of discussion in the past few months about RPM -- its present state, its future plans, and its leadership team. In particular, the Fedora Project has received numerous requests asking us, what are you guys doing about RPM?

Announcing the Fedora 6 Zod live CD and live CD tools

2006-12-22 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, After lots of feedback, bug fixing and testing of the beta live CD announced 3 weeks ago, I'm pleased to announce the first official Fedora live CD. This live CD is based on packages from the Fedora Core 6 (codenamed Zod) and Fedora Extras package collections and is such 100% free software.

Fedora Weekly News Issue 72

2007-01-08 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 72 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_72 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 One Million Fedora Users! 2 FUDCon Reminder 3 Fedora 7 Schedule 4 Speaking at SCALE 5 Security Features in RHEL and Fedora Core 6 Security

Fedora Weekly News Issue 75

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 75 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_75 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Fedora 7 Test 1 Freeze 2 Fedora 7 Test 1 Approaching 3 Plymouth: The next generation RHGB 4 The Top Ten Reasons to Attend SCALE 5 Amanda

Congratulations and thank you

2007-01-31 Thread Matthew J. Szulik
On behalf of all Red Hat associates, I want to thank all members of the worldwide open source community for committing their time, skill and intellect in creating a free and open source success - the Fedora OS. Achieving 1M users in such a short time is impressive. But to me, the real success

Announcing Fedora 7 Test 1 (6.90)

2007-02-01 Thread Jesse Keating
Just a quick blurb. Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are still fine tuning targetted spins of the collection as part of the merger of Core and Extras. We also produced a LiveCD that has the ability

Unofficial Fedora FAQ Updated for Fedora Core 6!

2007-02-05 Thread Max Kanat-Alexander
Hello Fedora world! Yes, that's right! It's done! Bring out the horns, spread the news, the Unofficial Fedora FAQ is updated for Fedora Core 6! http://www.fedorafaq.org/ There are a LOT of changes in the new FAQ: * Updated yum configuration *

Fedora Weekly News Issue 76

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 76 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_76 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Announcing Fedora 7 Test 1 (6.90) 2 Congratulations and thank you 3 Smolt: Fedora Hardware Profiler 4 Fedora Package Database 0.1 5 Fedora

Announcing FUDCon Brussels2007

2007-02-05 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there, As many of you, have heard about Fedora's presence in FOSDEM2007. We are now annoncing another FUDCon in 2007 which will be held there at FOSDEM, Brussels Belgium. Location and Date * Brussels, Belgium * Feb 24-25, 2007 Attendance is free. * room H2214 -

Changes to fedora-advisory-board list

2007-02-12 Thread Max Spevack
When the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list was first set up, it was put together in this way: 1) Archives 100% open to all 2) Non member posting is moderated 3) Member posting is non-moderated 4) Membership is by approval. 5) People who want to lurk by not post could subscribe to

Announcing Desktop User Guide

2007-02-19 Thread John Babich
Fedora Core 6 Desktop User Guide == The Fedora Project presents: The Fedora Desktop User Guide for Fedora Core 6 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/DesktopUserGuide The Desktop User Guide is here to help you accomplish specific tasks with the desktop applications. It

Fedora Weekly News Issue 77

2007-02-19 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 77 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_77 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Announcing a change in the Fedora 7 schedule 2 Fedora 7 Test 1 Release Notes 3 Changes to fedora-advisory-board list 4 The Interview of Bill

FudCon Videos are now available

2007-02-20 Thread Mike McGrath
The FudCon videos from Boston 2007 are now ready for torrent download at: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ -Mike -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list

Re: FudCon Videos are now available

2007-02-20 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Mike McGrath wrote: The FudCon videos from Boston 2007 are now ready for torrent download at: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ Special thanks to Jonathan Steffan (daMaestro) for filming, ogg-ifying, and uploading the videos to us. We're going to look into what it will

Wiki is now upgraded!

2007-02-21 Thread Mike McGrath
The wiki is now upgraded! There's bound to be minor odds and ends to fix up over the coming days, I ask that if anyone finds something broken they email me and I'll start fixing issues one by one. -Mike -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com

Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91)

2007-03-01 Thread Jesse Keating
Welcome to Fedora 7 Test 2 I am please to announce the second test release for Fedora 7. Downloads DVD and network installation are available. Please read the Important Warnings below in this announcement for more details. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ The recommended method of

Fedora Weekly News Issue 79

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 79 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_79 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91) 2 Reduction of Fedora releases (in Bugzilla) 3 Phoronix: Fedora 7 KVM Virtualization How-To 4 IBM

Fedora Weekly News Issue 80

2007-03-12 Thread Thomas Chung
Welcome to our issue number 80 of Fedora Weekly News. http://fedoranews.org/wiki/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_80 In this issue, we have following articles: 1 2 Million Fedora Core 6 Installs 2 Fedora Core 6 Linux Eclipses 2M User Mark 3 Talking points for Fedora 7 release 4 Fedora Infrastructure

Fedora Weekly News Issue 81

2007-04-02 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 81 = http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue81 Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 81 for the week of March 25th through March 31st, 2007. The latest issue can always be found [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue here]. == Announcements and Fedora Board ==

[EMAIL PROTECTED] is going away

2007-04-18 Thread Mike McGrath
Please note that in one week (April 25th) [EMAIL PROTECTED] email addresses are going away. These reasons are purely technical. People that need exceptions should contact someone on the infrastructure team or stop by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net for consideration on a case by case

Announcing Fedora 7 Test 4 (6.93)

2007-04-26 Thread Will Woods
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of the fourth and final test release of Fedora 7! Test 4 is for beta users. This is the time when we MUST have full community participation. Without this participation both hardware and software functionality suffers. We need your help. Join

Fedora Weekly News Issue 85

2007-04-30 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 85 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 85[1] for the week of April 22nd through April 28th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue85 [2]

Fedora Weekly News Issue 86

2007-05-07 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 86 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 86[1] for the week of April 29th through May 5th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue86 [2]

Seth Vidal and Toshio Kuratomi joining Red Hat

2007-05-09 Thread Max Spevack
Fedorans, Another day, another email to fedora-announce-list from me. As those of you who read this list may remember, back when we announced the hiring of Mike McGrath as the Fedora Infrastructure Leader, the part of that announcement that made me most happy was that we were able to hire

Fedora Weekly News Issue 87

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 87 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 87[1] for the week of May 6th through May 12th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue87 [2]

Fedora Weekly News Issue 88

2007-05-21 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 88 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 88[1] for the week of May 13th through May 19th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue88 [2]

Fedora Project Web gets a face lift

2007-05-24 Thread Mike McGrath
The Fedora Project website has gotten a face lift: http://fedoraproject.org/ Prior to today that site went straight to the wiki, which is largely developer content with good (but somewhat hard to find) docs. Now we're expanding on fedoraproject.org and adding some more user-centric content

Fedora Weekly News Issue 89

2007-05-28 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 89 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 89[1] for the week of May 20th through May 26th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue89 [2]

a few words about Fedora 7

2007-05-31 Thread Max Spevack
My fellow Fedorans, In a few hours (about 10:00 AM EDT/2:00 PM GMT), Fedora 7 will go live to the world. It's the middle of the night in the main Red Hat offices in Raleigh and Westford, but I amm in Berlin this week for LinuxTag, which is the largest Linux conference in Europe (10,000

Fedora Board elections -- voting open

2007-06-29 Thread Max Spevack
Voting is now open for the Fedora Board elections. As a reminder, we are electing 3 of the 9 seats during this election. The candidates are (in alphabetical order): Christopher Aillon Dennis Gilmore Bob Jensen Brian Pepple Jef Spaleta Rahul Sundaram More information about the candidates is

Fedora Weekly News Issue 94

2007-07-02 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 94 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 94[1] for the week of June 24th through June 30th 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue94 [2]

Reminder -- Vote in the Fedora Board election

2007-07-02 Thread Max Spevack
I would like to remind everyone to vote in the Fedora Board elections, which are currently ongoing. If you are getting this message multiple times, I'm sorry. It's being sent to various lists. The Fedora Board's membership changes on a rotating basis. This election is for 3 of the 9 Fedora

Kadischi reached End Of Life

2007-07-09 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there, A few days ago, I mentioned[1] there is no one behind kadischi's development team and it will be EOL'ed this saturday. So today is Saturday 07 July 2007 (in a few minutes it will be 08 July 2007), kadischi's bug review[2] was marked and closed as NOTABUG, while the remaining 4 open

Fedora Weekly News Issue 95

2007-07-09 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 95 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 95[1] for the week of July 1st through July 7th 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue95 [2]

The new Fedora Board

2007-07-10 Thread Max Spevack
Hi everyone, We've just completed the first Fedora Board succession process, and I wanted to take a moment to share the results with everyone. Staying on for another release cycle are Seth Vidal, Bill Nottingham, Chris Blizzard, and Matt Domsch. Joining them are 5 new Board members.

Smolt, Open Invitation

2007-07-16 Thread Mike McGrath
Smolt will reach 75,000 profiles in the next 24 hours and with that news I'm excited to announce functional clients that work in SuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu. With the help of the Linux community at large we could start to better understand what is out there. Look to changes in the near future

Fedora Weekly News Issue 96

2007-07-16 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 96 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 96[1] for the week of July 8th through July 14th 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue96 [2]

fedorapeople.org is now available

2007-07-18 Thread seth vidal
Hi Everyone, fedorapeople.org is now available for general use. What is fedorapeople.org?: It is a site where fedora contributors can upload files for sharing out with the world. It is perfect for uploading specfiles, srpms, patches, etc, etc. Each fedora contributor has 150M of

Fedora Weekly News Issue 97

2007-07-23 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 97 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 97 for the week of July 15th through July 21st 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3]. To join or give us a feedback, please visit our project join page[4]. [1]

FESCo Election Results

2007-07-23 Thread Brian Pepple
Hi everyone, The FESCo election is over, and the members for the 2007/2008 FESCo are (in alphabetical order): 1. Christopher Aillon 2. Josh Boyer 3. Tom Callaway 4. Kevin Fenzi 5. Dennis Gilmore 6. Christian Iseli 7. Jeremy Katz 8. Jesse Keating 9.

Fedora Weekly News Issue 98

2007-07-30 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 98 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 98 for the week of July 22nd, 2007. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue98 In this week, we have great announcements for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), 3000 Fedora 7 Installations as well as FESCo Election

Site for Chilean users of Fedora

2007-08-13 Thread Eduardo Villagrán Morales
I have the privilege to communicate that Chile already has a site for the community of Fedora users. This site tries to give information to local users, as well as to make available a local Yum mirror of Updates. You can enter the site http://fedora.linuxdiinf.org I must be thankful to

Fedora Weekly News Issue 101

2007-08-20 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 101 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 101 for the week of August 13th. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue101 Here is a highlight of this week's report: In Ask Fedora, we have Location For Menu Entries And Customization and 64-bit Java Plugin. In Daily

Fedora Weekly News Issue 102

2007-08-27 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 102 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 102 for the week of August 20th. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue102 Here is a highlight of this week's report: In Ask Fedora, we have Cleaning Old Files and Packages and CD Split For fedora 7. In Daily Package, we

Fedora Rel-Eng Meeting Recap 2007-SEP-10

2007-09-10 Thread John Poelstra
Recap and full IRC transcript found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Meetings/2007-sep-10 Please make corrections and clarifications to the wiki page. == News Update From F13 == * Test2 is on the way to mirrors * rawhide is now back to being rawhide unfrozen * minimal

Announcing Fedora 8 Test 2 (7.91)

2007-09-13 Thread Jesse Keating
Batten down the hatches, Fedora 8 Test 2 spotted just over the port side bow! A veritable sea of choices await you in this release. First up is the Fedora installable 'choose your own adventure' style set of isos and trees for i386, x86_64, and ppc(64). Next up we have a variety of Live images:

Cast your vote for the Fedora 8 Codename!

2007-09-26 Thread Jesse Keating
We have two options for the Fedora 8 codename, and you get to help decide which we use! https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/vote.cgi is the URL to cast your vote. Log in with your Fedora Account name and password. As long as you belong to at least one group in the Fedora Account System,

Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora 7 Re-Spins.

2007-09-28 Thread Robert 'Bob' Jensen
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora 7. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora 7 and all updates released as of September 12th, 2007. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via jigdo starting Friday,

Fedora-fr association was born !

2007-10-01 Thread Thomas Canniot
Dear Fedora user, All the French Fedora Team is glad to announce you the creation of the association of the French speaking Fedora users. We will need your help to drive this project where all the users of Fedora are working for the same goal, the promotion of Fedora. Why an association ? * In

Announcing Fedora 8 Test 3 (7.92)!

2007-10-04 Thread Jeremy Katz
Fedora 8 Test 3 is here! This is the last test release before the development freeze and a great time to test all those packages that you know and love. Test 3 is for beta users. This is the time when we must have full community participation. Without this participation both hardware and software

Fedora Weekly News Issue 104

2007-10-08 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 104 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 104 for the week of October 1st. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue104 In Announcements, we have Announcing Fedora 8 Test 3 (7.92)! To join or give us your feedback, please visit

Fedora Weekly News Issue 107

2007-10-29 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 107 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 107 for the week of October 22nd. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue107 In PlanetFedora, we have Fedora 8 - Blocker bugs status, Fedora 8 ALSA kernel needs Testing, Scary Haloween with Werewolves, and Projeto Fedora? To

Fedora Core 6 End of Life

2007-11-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
A reminder to users: Fedora Core 6 will reach its end of life for updates on Friday, December 7, 2007. Fedora 7 will remain supported until one month past the release of Fedora 9 (as things stand, this would be roughly through the end of May, 2008). - The Fedora Board -- fedora-announce-list

Fedora Weekly News Issue 108

2007-11-05 Thread Thomas Chung
= Fedora Weekly News Issue 108 = Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 108 for the week of October 29th. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue108 In Announcements, we have Fedora Core 6 End of Life In Planet Fedora, we have Fedora 8 Release is on its Way Out, Fedora 8 Release Summary, Upgrading

rpm.livna.org repositories for Fedora 8 (Werewolf) now available

2007-11-08 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On behalf of the Livna ( http://rpm.livna.org ) contributers I'd like to announce the availability of the Livna package repository for Fedora 8 (Werewolf). The Livna repository hosts software as RPM packages which cannot be shipped in the official Fedora repository for various reasons and supports

ATrpms for Fedora 8; EOL for Fedora Core 6

2007-11-08 Thread Axel Thimm
ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 8 support for i386, x86_64 and ppc. http://ATrpms.net/dist/f8/ o The actual download location is http://dl.atrpms.net/. Mirrors are listed at http://atrpms.net/mirrors/ o stable, testing and bleeding, the three subrepos per distribution are not

Announcing the release of Fedora 8 (Werewolf)

2007-11-08 Thread Jesse Keating
(To the tune of Michael Jackson's Thriller) It's close to midnight and something cool is coming through the tubes It's looking real tight, a distro for the experts and the n00bs With Live CDs* so you can try it out before installing Or DVDs so you can have the packages you choose No way to lose

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