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== Planet Fedora ==
== Planet Fedora ==


In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[http://planet.fedoraproject.org], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.  


http://planet.fedoraproject.org
Contributing Writer: [[User:Jbraun|Joel Braun]]


Contributing Writer: [[User:Abatkin|Adam Batkin]]
=== Events ===


=== General ===
====FudCon Pune 2011====
[[user:kishan|Kishan Goyal]] posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune<ref>http://kishangoyal.co.cc/post/12549697509/fudcon-pune-11-day-2</ref>.


[[MichaelDeHaan|Michael DeHaan]] discussed<ref>http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=862</ref> various Linux system configuration applets and some ideas how to unify/integrate them. On an unrelated note, he also wrote<ref>http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=871</ref> about HTML Slidey<ref>http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/#(1)</ref>: Slide Shows in XHTML.
[[user:jsimon|Joerg Simon]] posted pictures<ref>http://kitall.blogspot.com/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011-travel-und-event.html</ref> of the event.


[[GaryBenson|Gary Benson]] announced<ref>http://gbenson.net/?p=130</ref> that Zero has passed the Java SE 6 TCK, which means that OpenJDK in Fedora 10 for 32 and 64 bit PowerPC-based systems are now pretty much guaranteed to run anything you can throw at them.
[[user:izhar|Izhar Firdaus]] wrote about his experience<ref>http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ShadowLogs%2FFedora+%28%3A%3A+Shadow+Logs%3A%3A+Fedora%29#!/2011/11/fudcon-pune-2011.html</ref> at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.


[[DanielWalsh|Daniel Walsh]] explained<ref>http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/26428.html</ref>,<ref>http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/26759.html</ref> some SELinux history, voodoo and how to rebuild bits of the policy RPMs.
[[user:suchakra|Suchakra]] also blogged on Fudcon Pune<ref>http://suchakra.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/fudcon%e2%86%94funcon-pune-2011/</ref>.


[[User:Katzj|Jeremy Katz]] reviewed<ref>http://velohacker.com/fedora-notes/recent-reading-web-usability/</ref> the book <i>Don't Make Me Think</i> by Steve Krug and how that applies to web usability.
[[user:kushal|Kushal Das]] posted photos<ref>http://kushaldas.in/2011/11/10/photoset-from-fudcon-pune-2011/</ref> of the event to his blog.
===Fedora Community===


Red Hat Magazine<ref>http://magazine.redhat.com/</ref> spotlighted<ref>http://magazine.redhat.com/2009/02/17/video-spotlight-on-func/</ref> Func, which "makes it easy to write commands across large numbers of machines remotely and securely".
The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.


[[User:Ankursinha|Ankur Sinha]] wrote<ref>http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/fedora-article-for-the-lugm-magazine/</ref> an article about the history of Fedora and its four core values.
[[user:jjmartinez|Juanjo Martinez]] blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"<ref>http://engbblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/welcome-fedora-16/</ref>.


[[User:Jspaleta|Jef Spaleta]] wondered<ref>http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/34910.html</ref> how popular Git was, and found some interesting statistics from GitHub. He also discovered that apparently some<ref>http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/35246.html</ref> Canonical developers (the kernel folks) do used Git instead of Bzr.
===General===
 
[[User:Liquidat|Roland Wolters]] announced<ref>http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/rpm-fusion-enters-testing-state/</ref> that RPM Fusion<ref>http://rpmfusion.org/</ref> ("a merge of several former Fedora 3rd party repositories providing licence/patent problematic packages") has entered the testing state.
 
[[User:Ryanlerch|Ryan Lerch]] described<ref>http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/create-a-lightbulb-icon-that-follows-the-tango-guidelines/</ref> how to "Create a Lightbulb Icon that follows the tango! guidelines".
 
[[User:Jack|Jack Aboutboul]] wrote<ref>http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-fedora-marketing.html</ref> about what can be done to rejuvinate Fedora Marketing.
 
[[User:Lennart|Lennart Poettering]] explained<ref>http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/tagging-audio.html</ref> how to "tag" audio streams so that Pulse Audio can automatically manage sound policy ("For example, starting in 0.9.15, we will automatically pause your media player while a phone call is going on").
 
[[User:Skvidal|Seth Vidal]] described<ref>http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/yum-createrepo-hashlib-rhel5centos5-and-sha256sums/</ref> how to adapt to the change to SHA256 checksums in yum/createrepo on EL5.
 
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=== Events ===


[[User:Fcrippa|Francesco Crippa]] posted<ref>http://people.byte-code.com/fcrippa/2009/02/16/fosdem-2009/</ref> some photos from FOSDEM 2009.
[[User:adamwill|Adam Williamson]] posted about <ref>http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/11/10/stupid-fedora-tricks/</ref>starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.


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Latest revision as of 06:21, 11 November 2011

Planet Fedora

This is the Planet Fedora section, covering news from planet.fedoraproject.org[1], a collection of blogs from Fedora users spanning the globe.

Contributing Writer: Joel Braun

Events

FudCon Pune 2011

Kishan Goyal posted on his experience on day 2 at FudCon Pune[1].

Joerg Simon posted pictures[2] of the event.

Izhar Firdaus wrote about his experience[3] at FudCon, as well as some thoughts on the atmosphere of the event.

Suchakra also blogged on Fudcon Pune[4].

Kushal Das posted photos[5] of the event to his blog.

Fedora Community

The release of Fedora 16 has been the main topic of the blogroll recently, and it's fair to say that it's being greeted with open arms by many of the users.

Juanjo Martinez blogged on his first impressions of F16, calling it an "impressive release"[6].

General

Adam Williamson posted about [7]starting work on Fedora 17, and experimentation with the new kernel in a virtualized environment.