FWN/Beats/PlanetFedora

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

• FabianAffolter found a nice graph showing the number of unique fedoraproject.org visitors (progressively growing since 2006!): http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2008/12/fedoraprojectorg-unique-visitors.html
• User:Kwade appeals for information about configuring a misbehaving Synaptic touchpad on Fedora 10

http://iquaid.org/2008/11/30/synaptic-tapping-fail-is-there-a-good-fix/ followed shortly thereafter by a solution http://iquaid.org/2008/12/02/more-than-one-way-to-skin-a-touchpad/

• User:Kanarip provides instructions for composing EL5 media on Fedora 9 or 10 systems by running Revisor inside mock: http://kanarip.livejournal.com/6276.html
• While on the subject of EL5 and Fedora 10, [User:Stahnma] wrote about some issues running Fedora 10 as a guest on EL5: http://www.stahnkage.com/blogs/index.php?/archives/482-F10-and-Xen-images.html
• HarishPillay reports on the freeing of the code for the Atheros WiFi chipsets:

http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/131206.html

• MaxSpevack wonders whether there is a nice way to build a custom Fedora mirror tailored specifically to one's installed package set: http://spevack.livejournal.com/69145.html
• User:Thl critiques the Fedora Release notes, providing some suggestions for how to make the important bits stand out more: http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2008/12/read-same-paragraphs-every-half-year.html
• A look ahead at some of the innovations in the open source world that we can look forward to during 2009: http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/the-open-source-year-2009/
• Luis Villa muses on innovation in general and Desktop (think Gnome and KDE) in particular: http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/12/05/the-linux-desktops-change-problem/ and http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/12/06/slight-innovation-followup/

Sugar

• GregDeK chronicles his experiences with Sugar http://gregdek.livejournal.com/40932.html, http://gregdek.livejournal.com/41431.html, http://gregdek.livejournal.com/41616.html
• Luis Villa had a similar idea: http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/12/02/playing-with-sugar/

How-To/Tips

• TomTromey wrote an 8-part (so far) series on using a Python-enabled GDB. (Part 1: http://tromey.com/blog/?p=494, other parts link from there). The tutorial is not just about debugging Python with GDB, but also extending GDB using Python.
• How to build and automate a classroom/test lab-type setup: http://kanarip.livejournal.com/6419.html and http://jlaska.livejournal.com/3696.html
• Expanding an Encrypted Filesystem with LVM and Fedora 10: http://tofu.org/drupal/node/71
• iTunes music sharing in Fedora 10: http://www.alphatek.info/2008/12/01/itunes-music-sharing-in-fedora-10/
• Making an ASUS Eee PC 900 (or any generally underpowered UMPC with a solid state disk) happier under Linux: http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/132087.html
• Identify disk IO bottlenecks during bootup using SystemTap on Fedora 10: http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-10-disk-io

FOSS.IN

Photos, reactions and reports from FOSS.IN

• http://james-morris.livejournal.com/36445.html
• http://james-morris.livejournal.com/36715.html
• http://soumya.dgplug.org/?p=33
• http://kushaldas.in/2008/12/02/through-my-lenses-fossin-2008/
• http://rahulpmb.blogspot.com/2008/12/pics-from-fossin.html

Fedora 10 Praise

• http://project.azneita.org/2008/12/01/fedora-10-rocks/
• http://wagiaalla.com/blog/?p=78

A video interview with User:Pfrields about the new Fedora 10 release

• http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/12/02/video-fedora-10/