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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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/

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

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

Marketing

In this section, we cover Fedora Marketing Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing

Contributing Writer: ThomasChung