Fedora Weekly News Issue 158

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 158 for the week ending January
11th, 2009.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue158

In this first FWN issue of 2009, we bring you several announcements of
the outcomes of recent Fedora-related elections. Fedora 8 reaches its
end of life (time to upgrade!), and FUDCon 11 reports abound. Much news
coverage of the Fedora Planet, including Fedora 10 vs. OpenSuSE,
explanations on some of the recent security items now in the latest
(2.6.28) Linux Kernel, and Fedora and OLPC goodness. From the
development realm, useful coverage of the state of Intel graphics under
Fedora 10 and debates on disabling staging drivers. Release notes and
packaging guide areas need volunteers in the documentation project, and
the translation team welcomes new members and suggests new language
teams. In artwork, announcement of a new November/December issue of Echo
Monthly News, another great sister Fedora publication. Security
advisories for Fedora 9 and 10 are brought to light and the issue round
out with more virtualization coverage, including announcement of Xen
3.3.1 in Rawhide and a new Fedora virtualization list, "everything
concerning Fedora and virtualization, including Xen." Read on!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list ( -at -) redhat.com

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

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-- 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

--- Election Results ---

Bill Nottingham and Matt Domsch were re-elected to the Fedora Board for
two-release terms[1].

Josh Boyer, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and Jon Stanley were elected to the
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for two-release terms[2].

Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo
Padula, David Nalley, and Susmit Shannigrahi were elected to the Fedora
Ambassadors Steering Committee for two-release terms[3].

Paul Frields announced that Dimitris Glezos has been appointed to fill
the final seat on the Fedora Board[4].

[1]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00019.html

[2]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00017.html

[3]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00018.html

[4]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00007.html

--- FUDCon Boston 2009 ---

Hopefully, you were able to attend to attend FUDCon Boston, January
9-11. If you weren't, keep reading below for coverage!

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

--- Fedora 8 End of Life --

The end-of-life for Fedora 8 is Wednesday, January 7[1]. No further
updates will be issued, no new builds will be allowed in the build
system, and all open bugs against Fedora 8 will be closed WONTFIX[2].

[1]
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg00018.html

[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life

-- 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 ---

Michael DeHaan wrote[1] an essay entitled Academics, Innovation,
Patents, And a Path Beyond? about FOSS, cross-organizational
collaboration and encouraging innovation.

Jef Spaleta had some ideas[2] about "how to do more focused new
contributor recruitment and training in Fedora" and using the Mugshot
online service to gather statistics and create personalized
notifications (invitations) to its users.

Máirín Duffy created[3] a list of questions (and provoked a healthy
discussion) that could be used to develop a set of guidelines for
notifications ("Chatty Applications").

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote[4] about some of the work going in to
synchronizing Fedora and OLPC efforts.

James Morris explained[5] some of the security changes that have gone in
to the latest (2.6.28) Linux Kernel.

Karsten Wade asked "why aren’t you publishing on the Fedora wiki?"[6]
and followed up with a set of thoughts to encourage documentation
contributions.

After a few Fedora 10 frustrations, Scott Williams tried-out[7] OpenSuSE
and found some good bits and some not-so-good bits.

The latest Red Hat Magazine included[8] a video interview of Michael
DeHann discussing Cobbler "and how it simplifies network installations
for datacenters and other large-scale linux environments".

James Laska continued[9] his tutorial on Creating a virtual test lab
(using tools such as Cobbler, Koan and SNAKE).

David Nalley thanked[10] HP for providing Mini-notes (with Linux
preinstalled!) for Fedora Ambassadors.

Jef Spaleta wrote[11] an open letter to Mark Shuttleworth questioning
the openness (or lack thereof) of Canonical's Launchpad.

[1] http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=820

[2] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/31456.html

[3] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/66637.html

[4] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/43404.html

[5] http://james-morris.livejournal.com/37583.html

[6]
http://iquaid.org/2009/01/06/the-outside-and-inside-of-documentation-or-why-arent-you-publishing-on-the-fedora-wiki/

[7] http://vwbusguy.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/review-opensuse-111/

[8] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2009/01/07/video-spotlight-on-cobbler/

[9] http://jlaska.livejournal.com/3910.html

[10] http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=171

[11] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/31829.html

--- FUDCon 11 ---

A small selection of FUDCon-related posts:

[1]
http://sexysexypenguins.com/2009/01/10/fudcon-f11-not-in-boston-listen-live-watch-videos-after/
("Not in Boston? Listen Live, Watch Videos After!")

[2] Photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67003.html

[3] More photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67287.html

[4] Even more photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67388.html

-- Developments --

In this section the people, personalities and debates on the