Fedora Weekly News Issue 110

Mon Nov 19 08:52:57 UTC 2007

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 110 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 110 for the week of November 12th.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue110

In Announcements, we have "Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 Everything Spin".

In AskFedora, we have "GIMP 2.4.1 and Fedora 7", "Automatic Security Updates".

In PlanetFedora, we  have "Seam running under IcedTea on Fedora 8",
"Fedora 8 on a MacBook (intel)", "Custom Kernel documentation updated"
and  "First Torrent Movie".

To celebrate Thanksgiving Day[1], Fedora News Team will take the next
week off. Have a Safe Holiday!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

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   1. Announcements
         1. Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 Everything Spin
   2. Ask Fedora
         1. GIMP 2.4.1 and Fedora 7
         2. Automatic Security Updates
   3. Planet Fedora
         1. Seam running under IcedTea on Fedora 8
         2. Fedora 8 on a MacBook (intel)
         3. Custom Kernel documentation updated
         4. First Torrent Movie
   4. Marketing
         1. cio.com: The Fedora OS: Free, Stable and Customizable
         2. redhatmagazine.com: Tour of GNOME Online Desktop
         3. linuxtoday.com: Spinning a New Kind of Distro
         4. coffeedaze.com: Fedora/Linux for Noobs
         5. arstechnica.com: Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week
         6. distrowatch.com: Distrowatch reviews Fedora 8
         7. softpedia.com: Installing Fedora 8 Werewolf
   5. Developments
         1. As Review Request Queue Lengthens Tempers Shorten
         2. NetworkManager Making Fedora 8 Hostile To Sysadmins ?
         3. Minimal Requires: Codename "Masochist"
         4. Gecko-libs Now Provided By Xulrunner-devel
         5. Autoloading Of Kmods In Udev Area
         6. /tftpboot Versus /var/tftp Or Somewhere Else
         7. Buildserver Kernel Release (PPC64)
         8. Extension Buddy For Fedora 9 ?
         9. PulseAudio CPU Usage
        10. Old Libtool Problems Reported By Check-rpaths
   6. Artwork
         1. Naming of Fedora 9?
         2. Fedora 9 Theming?
         3. Rounded Corners Patch for Nodoka
         4. Spring and Autumn On Your Desktop
         5. Infinity 24 for KDE
   7. Security Week
         1. Samba
         2. AppArmor's Security Goals
         3. Hushmail not so hush
   8. Advisories and Updates
         1. Fedora 8 Security Advisories
         2. Fedora 7 Security Advisories
         3. Fedora Core 6 Security Advisories
   9. Events and Meetings
         1. Fedora Board Meeting Minutes 2007-MM-DD
         2. Fedora Ambassadors Meeting 2007-MM-DD
         3. Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (Log) 2007-MM-DD
         4. Fedora Engineering Steering Committee Meeting 2007-11-15
         5. Fedora Infrastructure Meeting (Log) 2007-11-15
         6. Fedora Localization Meeting 2007-MM-DD
         7. Fedora Marketing Meeting 2007-MM-DD
         8. Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting 2007-MM-DD
         9. Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting 2007-11-14
        10. Fedora Release Engineering Meeting 2007-11-12
        11. Fedora SIG EPEL Meeting Week 45
        12. Fedora SIG KDE Meeting Week 46
        13. Fedora SIG Store Meeting 2007-11-14

[[Anchor(Announcements)]]
== Announcements ==

In this section, we cover announcements from Fedora Project.

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list

Contributing Writer: ThomasChung

=== Fedora Unity releases Fedora 8 Everything Spin ===

JeroenVanMeeuwen announces in fedora-announce-list[1],

"The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new
spin[2], the Everything Spin. Included in this spin are all the
packages available at the time Fedora 8 was released."

"This spin also includes 3 DVD images for each architecture, as well
as 2 DVD Dual Layer images for those who are able to use them."

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-November/msg00013.html

[2] http://spins.fedoraunity.org/

[[Anchor(AskFedora)]]
== Ask Fedora ==

In this section, we answer general questions from Fedora community.
Send your questions to askfedora AT fedoraproject.org and Fedora News
Team will bring you answers from the Fedora Developers and
Contributors to selected number of questions every week as part of our
weekly news report. Please indicate if you do not wish your name
and/or email address to be published.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AskFedora

Contributing Writer:  NilsPhilippsen, RahulSundaram

=== GIMP 2.4.1 and Fedora 7 ===

''Hasson Ofer <hassonofer AT gmail.com> : Will you make official gimp
2.4.1 package to fedora 7 ?''

I've requested the push:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/pending/gimp-2.4.1-1.fc7

These are the update notes as of now:

This update is a major version change. Please test thoroughly. Don't
flag it as working unless you have done really extensive testing! I
don't want to push this to stable too soon.

For new features and other changes, please read the release notes of
GIMP 2.4 on the web: http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4.html

GIMP 2.4 is supposed to be compatible to older GIMP 2.x versions as far
as plug-ins are concerned. It also uses the TinyScheme interpreter now
for Script-Fu scripts which is a bit less forgiving about certain
programming errors. If you use custom Script-Fu scripts, you might have
to fix them to work in GIMP 2.4. Read the Script-Fu Migration Guide on
the web for further information:
http://www.gimp.org/docs/script-fu-update.html

-- NilsPhilippsen

=== Automatic Security Updates ===

''Jenni and Adri <jattas AT supernerd.com.au> :
I am a new user of Fedora and notice the regular updates. Some of them
are huge. I have a 1 Gb monthly down and upload allowance and after
that my ISP slows the speed of my internet service down. I used to let
the updates download regardless, but I discovered that the size was
that large that I nearly lost all capacity in the first 5 or 6 days of
the month.

My question is: Is it possible to indicate the size of the automatic
down loads so that I know how large the down loads are, so that I can
do these down loads when it is the end of the service month?''

While the software updater (Pup) does not show the size of the
updates, there are two nifty yum plugins that can save you the hassle
of keeping track of package sizes. The first is a plugin called
'''yum-security''' that shows only the security updates and the second
is a plugin called '''yum-presto''' [1] that downloads only the binary
diff's on software updates instead of a full new package and can save
you quite a lot of bandwidth and time. Use a combination of both and
you don't have to worry about running out of bandwidth.

[1] http://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/presto

[[Anchor(PlanetFedora)]]
== Planet Fedora ==

In this section, we cover a highlight of Planet Fedora - an
aggregation of blogs from world wide Fedora contributors.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Planet

Contributing Writers: ThomasChung

=== Seam running under IcedTea on Fedora 8 ===

KarstenWade points out in his blog[1]

"Best thing about his adventure? Pete ran a "highly unscientific test"
and found out that IcedTea outperformed other JDKs"

[1] http://iquaid.org/2007/11/18/seam-running-under-icedtea-on-fedora-8/

=== Fedora 8 on a MacBook (intel) ===

KonstantinRyabitsev points out in his blog[1]

"It works quite well, including brightness buttons and the "fn" key. I
upgraded from Fedora 7, so I can't comment on whether the installation
has improved -- perhaps I'll try it again later."

=== Custom Kernel documentation updated ===

SamFolkWilliams points out in his blog[1],

"As several people have noticed, there were quite a few changes to the
kernel spec file with the release of Fedora 8. The custom kernel
document has now been updated to reflect these changes."

[1] http://samfw.blogspot.com/2007/11/custom-kernel-documentation-updated.html

[1] http://mricon.livejournal.com/386456.html

=== First Torrent Movie ===

JefSpaleta points out in his blog[1],

"As promised, I've started making animations of some of the torrent
activity for the Fedora 8 torrents. And instead of using youtube, I'm
now uploading the final videos to archive.org so you can get access to
the original theora files."

[1] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/15989.html

[[Anchor(Marketing)]]
== Marketing ==

In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: ThomasChung

=== cio.com: The Fedora OS: Free, Stable and Customizable ===