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
Michael DeHaan discussed[1] various Linux system configuration applets and some ideas how to unify/integrate them. On an unrelated note, he also wrote[2] about HTML Slidey[3]: Slide Shows in XHTML.
Gary Benson announced[4] that Zero has passed the Java SE 6 TCK, which means that OpenJDK in Fedora 10 for 32 and 64 bit PowerPC-based systems are now pretty much guaranteed to run anything you can throw at them.
Daniel Walsh explained[5],[6] some SELinux history, voodoo and how to rebuild bits of the policy RPMs.
Jeremy Katz reviewed[7] the book Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug and how that applies to web usability.
Red Hat Magazine[8] spotlighted[9] Func, which "makes it easy to write commands across large numbers of machines remotely and securely".
Ankur Sinha wrote[10] an article about the history of Fedora and its four core values.
Jef Spaleta wondered[11] how popular Git was, and found some interesting statistics from GitHub. He also discovered that apparently some[12] Canonical developers (the kernel folks) do used Git instead of Bzr.
Roland Wolters announced[13] that RPM Fusion[14] ("a merge of several former Fedora 3rd party repositories providing licence/patent problematic packages") has entered the testing state.
Ryan Lerch described[15] how to "Create a Lightbulb Icon that follows the tango! guidelines".
Jack Aboutboul wrote[16] about what can be done to rejuvinate Fedora Marketing.
Lennart Poettering explained[17] how to "tag" audio streams so that Pulse Audio can automatically manage sound policy ("For example, starting in 0.9.15, we will automatically pause your media player while a phone call is going on").
Seth Vidal of Yum fame described[18] how to adapt to the change to SHA256 checksums in yum/createrepo on EL5.
- ↑ http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=862
- ↑ http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=871
- ↑ http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/#(1)
- ↑ http://gbenson.net/?p=130
- ↑ http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/26428.html
- ↑ http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/26759.html
- ↑ http://velohacker.com/fedora-notes/recent-reading-web-usability/
- ↑ http://magazine.redhat.com/
- ↑ http://magazine.redhat.com/2009/02/17/video-spotlight-on-func/
- ↑ http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/fedora-article-for-the-lugm-magazine/
- ↑ http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/34910.html
- ↑ http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/35246.html
- ↑ http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/rpm-fusion-enters-testing-state/
- ↑ http://rpmfusion.org/
- ↑ http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/create-a-lightbulb-icon-that-follows-the-tango-guidelines/
- ↑ http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-fedora-marketing.html
- ↑ http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/tagging-audio.html
- ↑ http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/yum-createrepo-hashlib-rhel5centos5-and-sha256sums/
Events
Francesco Crippa posted[1] some photos from FOSDEM 2009.