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
Thorsten Leemhuis explained[1] why he believes that Fedora should ensure that kmods work well, while leaving the actual kmods themselves in RPM Fusion.
Jack Aboutboul linked[2] to the Fedora 11 Podcast interview with Jonathan Dieter about Presto, which allows users to update their RPM-based system without having to download entire RPM files (only their deltas are downloaded).
Jef Spaleta announced[3] that a record 1,996,040 unique IPs accessed fedoraproject.org over May 2009.
Peter Hutterer explained[4] how X handles mouse button mappings (it's not as easy as you think!) and continued[5] with "XI2 Recipes, Part 1" and example programs that can support multiple mouse cursors and keyboard foci.
Karsten Wade wrote[6] about the process necessary to vote in the FESCo and Fedora Board election, from signing the CLA to joining a contributing sub-project.
Jack Aboutboul interviewed[7] Bastien Nocera, "long time Fedora Contributor and Desktop Renaissance Man" about authentication and fingerprinting in F11/12.
Dave Malcolm released[8] a new version (0.4) of squeal, the command line text query tool, with a number of new features include the ability to handle arbitrary text files (split on whitespace like awk, or use regular expressions) and support for pcap (tcpdump/wireshark) dump files.
Max Spevack answered[9] the age-old question "why is Fedora always released on a Tuesday?"
Paul W. Frields published[10] a "Fedora teams’ call to action" which might be described as a number of important points to make Fedora team more "sustainable" (how would a team cope if a contributor was eaten by a dinosaur?)
- ↑ http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/06/leave-kmods-in-rpm-fusion-but-make-sure.html
- ↑ http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-podcast-series-5-presto-with.html
- ↑ http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/43194.html
- ↑ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/06/button-mapping-in-x.html
- ↑ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/05/xi2-recipes-part-1.html
- ↑ http://iquaid.org/2009/06/03/power-from-the-people-power-for-the-people/
- ↑ http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-11-raise-thy-might-finger.html
- ↑ http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/3069.html
- ↑ http://spevack.livejournal.com/82143.html
- ↑ http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=2500