Fedora Weekly News Issue 155

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 155 for the week ending December
7th, 2008.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue155

FWN is pleased to announce the return of the Planet Fedora beat. Among
other items Adam Batkin lists some "Howtos and Tips" gleaned from blogs.
In Announcements the "Fedora 11" naming scheme is discussed. In
Developments "The PATH to CAPP" exposes disquiet with some security
infrastructure. Translation provides updates on the cancellation of
FLSCo elections. Artwork is again bursting at the seems with a "T-Shirt
Logo Design Tool" and "Improved Document Templates". SecurityAdvisories
lists this week's essential updates. Finally Virtualization continues to
race the shocking pace of developments including the "Release of libvirt
0.5.0 and 0.5.1" There's plenty more a mere mouse click away!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[1].

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 155
1.1 Announcements
1.1.1 FUDCon Boston (F11)
1.1.2 Fedora 11
1.1.3 Other
1.2 Planet Fedora
1.2.1 General
1.2.2 How-To and Tips
1.2.3 FOSS.IN
1.3 Developments
1.3.1 The PATH to CAPP Audits
1.3.2 The Looming Py3K Monster
1.3.3 PackageKit Stealth Installations
1.3.4 DNS Resolution Unreliable
1.4 Translation
1.4.1 FLSco Elections Cancelled
1.4.2 Fedora-website Translation Repo Re-enabled
1.4.3 Transifex version updated for
translate.fedoraproject.org
1.4.4 New Members in FLP
1.5 Artwork
1.5.1 Improved Document Templates
1.5.2 Postprocessing in Icons
1.5.3 FirstAidKit Artwork
1.5.4 T-Shirt Logo Design Tool
1.6 Security Advisories
1.6.1 Fedora 10 Security Advisories
1.6.2 Fedora 9 Security Advisories
1.6.3 Fedora 8 Security Advisories
1.7 Virtualization
1.7.1 Enterprise Management Tools List
1.7.1.1 Enabling Builds of libvirt for Windows
1.7.1.2 Solaris Support in virtinst
1.7.2 Fedora Xen List
1.7.2.1 Support for Fedora 10 DomU on F8 Dom0
1.7.2.2 Paravirt Ops Dom0 Feature Update
1.7.3 Libvirt List
1.7.3.1 Release of libvirt 0.5.0 and 0.5.1
1.7.3.2 Allow Automatic Driver Probe for Remote TCP
Connections
1.7.3.3 Thread Safety for libvirtd Daemon and
Drivers
1.7.3.4 libvirt 0.5.0 and KVM Migration Support
1.7.4 oVirt Devel List
1.7.4.1 Some Architecture Diagrams
1.7.4.2 Standalone Console Viewer for oVirt

== Announcements ==

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack

=== FUDCon Boston (F11) ===

Paul Frields made a few announcements this week regarding FUDCon
Boston[1], which is January 9-11.

Paul mentioned[2] that the event will be held at MIT, he gives
information about the social event, and also reminds people to register
on the wiki and to make their hotel reservations before December 19th,
in order to secure the $99 hotel room rate.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11

[2]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00000.html

=== Fedora 11 ===

Josh Boyer wrote[3] about the process for selecting the Fedora 11 name.
"We're doing the name collection differently this year than in the past.
Contributors wishing to make a suggestion are asked to go to the F11
naming wiki page[4], and add an entry to the suggestion table found
there".

[3]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00001.html

[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_11

Jon Stanley announced[5,6] the Fedora 11 freeze dates. The Alpha freeze
is currently scheduled for January 20, and the Final freeze for April
14.

[5]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-December/msg00005.html

[6]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-December/msg00006.html

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams announced[7] that Python 2.6 is now in Rawhide.
For those of you who maintain Python packages, you'll want to read the
full announcement.

[7]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-December/msg00007.html
Other

Finally, Paul Frields announced[8] that Chris Aillon has been
re-appointed to the Fedora Board, and will serve another two-release
term.

[8]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00005.html

== Planet Fedora ==

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.

http://planet.fedoraproject.org

Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin

=== General ===

Fabian Affolter posted[0] a nice graph showing the number of unique
fedoraproject.org visitors (progressively growing since 2006!)

[0]
http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2008/12/fedoraprojectorg-unique-visitors.html

Karsten Wade appealed[1] for information about configuring a misbehaving
Synaptic touchpad on Fedora 10, followed[2] shortly thereafter by a
solution.

[1]
http://iquaid.org/2008/11/30/synaptic-tapping-fail-is-there-a-good-fix/

[2] http://iquaid.org/2008/12/02/more-than-one-way-to-skin-a-touchpad/

Max Spevack wondered[3] whether there is a nice way to build a custom
Fedora mirror tailored specifically to one's installed package set.

[3] http://spevack.livejournal.com/69145.html

Thorsten Leemhuis critiqued[4] the Fedora Release Notes, providing some
suggestions for how to make the important bits stand out more.

[4]
http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2008/12/read-same-paragraphs-every-half-year.html

A look ahead[5] at some of the innovations in the open source world that
we can look forward to during 2009

[5] http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/the-open-source-year-2009/

Luis Villa mused[6][7] on innovation in general and the Linux Desktop
(think Gnome and KDE) in particular.

[6] http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/12/05/the-linux-desktops-change-problem/

[7] http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/12/06/slight-innovation-followup/

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote a few[8] posts[9] chronicling[10] his
experiences with Sugar

[8] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/40932.html

[9] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/41431.html

[10] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/41616.html

Apparently Luis Villa had[11] a similar idea

[11] http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/12/02/playing-with-sugar/

A video interview[12] with Paul W. Frields about the Fedora 10 release

[12] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/12/02/video-fedora-10/

=== How-To and Tips ===

Tom Tromey wrote an 8-part (so far) series[13] on using a Python-enabled
GDB. The series is not just about debugging Python with GDB, but also
extending GDB using Python.

[13] http://tromey.com/blog/?p=494

Jeroen van Meeuwen provided some instructions for composing EL5 media on
Fedora 9 or 10 systems[14] by running Revisor inside mock

[14] http://kanarip.livejournal.com/6276.html

James Laska wrote a tutorial on how to automate a classroom/lab-type[15]
setup using tools such as Cobbler, Snake and Koan

[15] http://jlaska.livejournal.com/3696.html

Michael Stahnke had some problems (and solutions)[16] for getting Fedora
10 running as a Xen guest on EL5

[16]
http://www.stahnkage.com/blogs/index.php?/archives/482-F10-and-Xen-images.html

Dale Bewley wrote about expanding[17] an Encrypted Filesystem with LVM
and Fedora 10

[17] http://tofu.org/drupal/node/71

Steven Moix managed to get[18] iTunes music sharing working in Fedora 10

[18]
http://www.alphatek.info/2008/12/01/itunes-music-sharing-in-fedora-10/

Dave Jones had some tips[19] for making an ASUS Eee PC 900 (or any
generally underpowered UMPC with a solid state disk) happier under Linux

[19] http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/132087.html

Harald Hoyer also provided some performance advice[20], this time to
help identify disk IO bottlenecks during bootup using SystemTap

[20] http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-10-disk-io

=== FOSS.IN ===

A number of people wrote up their experiences and provided pictures from
FOSS.IN:

[21] http://james-morris.livejournal.com/36445.html

[22] http://james-morris.livejournal.com/36715.html

[23] http://soumya.dgplug.org/?p=33

[24] http://kushaldas.in/2008/12/02/through-my-lenses-fossin-2008/

[25] http://rahulpmb.blogspot.com/2008/12/pics-from-fossin.html

[26] http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/2008/12/07/fossin-2008-lots-of-fun/

== Developments ==

In this section the people, personalities and debates on the