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
Dave Jones announced[1] some changes to the Fedora kernel packaging "to drop the regular 686 kernels. As of Fedora 11, the only 32-bit kernels built are '586' and '686-PAE' (and their -debug variants)."
User:Lennart Lennart Poettering described[2] some of the new changes in the latest PulseAudio 0.9.15 release, including Flat Volumes, On-the-fly Reconfiguration of Devices (aka "S/PDIF Support"), Native support for 24bit samples and support for Airport Express.
David Nalley wrote[3] about the Fedora Ambassadors giving away free XO laptops! To qualify, either "Package and maintain a sugar-* package for 2 releases or more" or "Build a Sugar activity that helps meet the 'holy list of 4th grade maths[4]'".
http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/34551.html
http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/fedora-is-held-to-a-higher-standard/
http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/34592.html
http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/139904.html
http://life-with-linux.blogspot.com/2009/02/internet-draft-transport-layer-security.html
http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1490
How-To
Devan Goodwin explained[1] how to perform bandwidth-limited secure encrypted backups using duplicity and Amazon's S3 Storage Service.
Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail described[2] how to enable "Disk snapshot backup in Linux".
User:Lennart Lennart Poettering requested[3] that D-Bus interfaces be properly versioned, and described some best-practices including the hows and whys.
Events
Once again: So many people have written about attending FOSDEM that it would take an entire issue of FWN post all of the links. Instead an arbitrarily selection will be randomly chosen.
http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2009/02/11/some-fosdem-pictures/
http://kitall.blogspot.com/2009/02/fosdem-day2.html
http://spevack.livejournal.com/74638.html
http://gregdek.livejournal.com/45847.html
http://digitaurora.blogspot.com/2009/02/fosdem-2009-day-one.html
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2009/02/report-fel-fosdem-2009.html
http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/mukti09-event-report/