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.
- ↑ 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
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]