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If you have found that your Gnome icons have disappeared from various places, [[User:Jjmartinez|Juan J. Martínez]] has<ref>http://rambleon.usebox.net/post/279165346/it-didnt-attract-that-much-attention-at-the-time</ref> your answer. And how to get them back. | If you have found that your Gnome icons have disappeared from various places, [[User:Jjmartinez|Juan J. Martínez]] has<ref>http://rambleon.usebox.net/post/279165346/it-didnt-attract-that-much-attention-at-the-time</ref> your answer. And how to get them back. | ||
[[User:Jspaleta|Jef Spaleta]] asked<ref>http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/50356.html</ref> "Can corporations be friendly?" and what that means for MySQL in the context of Oracle's purchase of Sun. | |||
[[User:Mjw|Mark J. Wielaard]] checked in<ref>http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2009/12/15/next-step-systemtap-java-hotspot-jstack-support/</ref> in support to SystemTap for tracing Java method calls through the call stack. | |||
[[User:Hiemanshu|Hiemanshu Sharma]] introduced<ref>http://blog.hiemanshu.in/2009/12/dorrie-web-based-fedora-remixer/</ref> Dorrie, the web-based Fedora Remix(er). | |||
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Revision as of 12:15, 21 December 2009
Planet Fedora
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide. This edition covers highlights from the past two weeks.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
General
Mel Chua reported[1] that there was a Zikula hackfest, which will shortly become the standard CMS for all Fedora Docs, Marketing and News.
Speaking of marketing, Karsten Wade posted[2] video on how "building sustainable community in Fedora leads to new innovation and new fun stuff for people to play with." And apparently[3] the Red Hat Wikipedia page[4] could use some updating.
Charles Brej continued[5][6] the Plymouth Theming Guide. If you have ever wanted your startup sequence to include a butterfly flapping its wings across the screen instead of a boring old progress bar, this is the series for you.
Richard Hughes created[7] the shared-color-profiles project to collect ICC profiles for various devices for use with Gnome Color Manager. Also mentioned[8] is a set of inexpensively available targets for use in calibrating any unknown device.
Karel Zak described[9] the new unshare command that is part of util-linux-ng 2.17. "The unshare(1) is a new command line interface to unshare Linux syscall and allows a program to run with some parts of the process execution context unshared from parent." An example shown is hiding a mounted filesystem within one shell session.
Jesse Keating announced[10] the upcoming move of Fedora's package source control system from CVS to Git.
Dave Jones presented[11] a conundrum in packaging the Linux kernel. "The kernel rpm package creates an initramfs file that gets dropped in /boot at install time. Creation of this file is the responsibility of dracut (or mkinitrd in older releases), called from the kernels %post script. Because we want removal of a kernel to also remove its associated initrd file (or else /boot would fill up), we used to list the initramfs file in rpms database as a %ghost file owned by the kernel..."
If you have found that your Gnome icons have disappeared from various places, Juan J. Martínez has[12] your answer. And how to get them back.
Jef Spaleta asked[13] "Can corporations be friendly?" and what that means for MySQL in the context of Oracle's purchase of Sun.
Mark J. Wielaard checked in[14] in support to SystemTap for tracing Java method calls through the call stack.
Hiemanshu Sharma introduced[15] Dorrie, the web-based Fedora Remix(er).
- ↑ http://blog.melchua.com/2009/12/07/zikula-hackfest/
- ↑ http://iquaid.org/2009/12/10/something-old-something-new-fedora-12-video/
- ↑ http://iquaid.org/2009/12/14/how-can-we-share-some-love-about-red-hat-with-wikipedia/
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
- ↑ http://brej.org/blog/?p=197
- ↑ http://brej.org/blog/?p=238
- ↑ http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/12/08/shared-color-profiles/
- ↑ http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/12/16/advances-of-freedom/
- ↑ http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2009/12/unshare1.html
- ↑ http://jkeating.livejournal.com/76407.html
- ↑ http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/12/10/annoying-kernel-packaging-bug/
- ↑ http://rambleon.usebox.net/post/279165346/it-didnt-attract-that-much-attention-at-the-time
- ↑ http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/50356.html
- ↑ http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2009/12/15/next-step-systemtap-java-hotspot-jstack-support/
- ↑ http://blog.hiemanshu.in/2009/12/dorrie-web-based-fedora-remixer/
FUDCon Wrapup
Although there were lots of posts from/about FUDCon, these three posts were selected as they present good broad summaries of the event:
- Luke Macken "FUDCon Toronto 2009"[1]
- James Laska "FUDCon Toronto trip report"[2]
- Paul W. Frields "FUDCon Toronto report"[3]
Virtualization
Daniel Berrange explained[1] how to use CGroups ("a generic mechanism the kernel provides for grouping of processes and applying controls to those groups") with "libvirt and LXC/KVM guests in Fedora 12", another feature that was quietly added to Fedora 12.
And in case you are using VMWare and want to migrate to KVM, Gerard Braad instructed[2] on how to migrate virtual machines between the two.
Daniel Berrange also posted[3] how to use "Routed subnets without NAT for libvirt managed virtual machines in Fedora".
Richard W.M. Jones finished[4] the three-part series on prebuilt distributions. Imagine being able to provision and built a complete virtual machine in 60 seconds...
- ↑ http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2009/12/using-cgroups-with-libvirt-and-lxckvm
- ↑ http://blog.gbraad.nl/2009/12/migrating-from-vmware-to-kvm.html
- ↑ http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2009/12/routed-subnets-without-nat-for-libvirt
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/prebuilt-distributions-part-3/