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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. | In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora<ref>http://planet.fedoraproject.org</ref> - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. | ||
Contributing Writer: [[User:Abatkin|Adam Batkin]] | |||
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=== General === | === General === | ||
Revision as of 15:18, 18 May 2009
Planet Fedora
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
General
Deepak Bhole joined the blogging world (welcome!) by explaining[1] changes that the IcedTea Java web browser Plugin will be undergoing in order to continue functioning after some ancient APIs (LiveConnect and OJI) are removed from Gecko (Mozilla-based projects) in the coming months.
Eclipse Linux Tools has released version 0.2 of their Eclipse plugin, and Andrew Overholt described[2] some of the new features along with the requisite eye candy.
Dracut is a new tool, designed to generate an initramfs and replace all of the different methods currently employed by various distros. Harald Hoyer appealed[3] for anyone interested in helping contribute, noting that it is one of the Features slated for Fedora 12.
Paul W. Frields linked[4] to a fedora-devel post by Jesse Keating explaining how to configure a system to ensure that a Fedora 11 pre-release properly transitions onto the stable Fedora 11 repositories once it has been released (or how to stay on rawhide if that is your plan).
Jesse Keating was interviewed[5] for a podcast, about the upcoming Fedora 11 release. Jesse also announced[6] some discussions that the Fedora Advisory Board has had about the hostility that sometimes surfaces on the fedora-devel list and ways that it might be dealt with. "This is the "warning shot". Our hopes is that folks will start to figure out what is and is not allowed to happen on the list and things will tone down a bit".
Adam Williamson noted[7] a number of reasons that there can never be a common Linux Package format, but suggested that "what others want is something that would actually be achievable, which is a unified system to make it easier for third parties to independently provide self-contained software packages for various distributions...If you want to do it really snazzily, though, what you want to do is design the App Store for Linux, or Steam for Linux, or something like that." Jesse Keating responded[8] that a potential complication might be "that user buy in is going to be hard when you take a software platform (such as RHEL or Fedora) that uses one tool to manage updates for the entirety of your software set (yum, PackageKit, whatever frontend) and suddenly add one or more tools to specifically manage one or two software bundles".
- ↑ http://dbhole.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/the-future-of-icedtea-plugin/
- ↑ http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=130
- ↑ http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/dracut
- ↑ http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1631
- ↑ http://jkeating.livejournal.com/69319.html
- ↑ http://jkeating.livejournal.com/69477.html
- ↑ http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/05/15/packaging-standards-again/
- ↑ http://jkeating.livejournal.com/69726.html
Events
Event reports and photos of FOSSComm in Greece by Dimitris Glezos[1] and Pierros Papadeas[2].
Anirudh Singh Shekhawat posted[3] photos[4] and descriptions of the setup for FOSJAM in India (which included the setup of Fedora 10 on 80 machines!).
Máirín Duffy attended an ACM SIGCHI panel on "User Experience in Open Source" and posted[5] detailed notes on the topic.
- ↑ http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2009/05/12/fosscomm-recap-2
- ↑ http://pierros.papadeas.gr/?p=24
- ↑ http://acedip.blogspot.com/2009/05/countdown-to-fosjam-day-0.html
- ↑ http://acedip.blogspot.com/2009/05/preparing-for-fosjam.html
- ↑ http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/notes-on-the-user-experience-in-open-source-panel-at-sigchi-boston-april-2009/