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
Harish Pillay disected[1] an interview regarding Oracle's rebuild of CentOS.
Martin Sourada showed off[2] some Echo Icon Theme eye candy.
Jeremy Katz mused[3] on some ideas to make sharing Git repositories easier.
Daniel Walsh announced[4] a summer internship at Red Hat working on SELinux.
Jef Spaleta discussed[5] Canonical's methodology for determining its userbase size and relative contributions to upstream projects (compared to Red Hat and Fedora). Yaakov Nemoy suggested [6] that usage of the word "canonical" should be increased, starting with changes like renaming the "Fedora Packaging Guidelines" to the "Packaging Canon".
Abhishek Rane posted[7] a screenshot tour of KDE 4.2.
Joseph Smidt wrote[8] about the massive number of new Features that Fedora 11 is slated to contain.
Cole Robinson demonstrated[9] the Fedora 11 virt-manager "New VM" wizard.
Red Hat Magazine[10] interviewed[11] Matt Domsch to discuss the Fedora Mirror network.
Mark J. Wielaard explained[12] a new feature in Systemtap 0.9 that allows you to "collect data from any variable in scope at a probe point using the DWARF debug info. You can even dereference pointers, access struct members, array elements, etc."
- ↑ http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/142124.html
- ↑ http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/02/weve-gone-long-way.html
- ↑ http://velohacker.com/fedora-notes/publishing-git-trees/
- ↑ http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/26904.html
- ↑ http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/35595.html
- ↑ http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2009/02/taken-shamelessly-from-dictionary.html
- ↑ http://www.abhishekrane.com/2009/02/27/kde-42-screenshot-tour/
- ↑ http://californiaquantum.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/fedora-11-will-have-an-incredible-number-of-new-features/
- ↑ http://blog.wikichoon.com/2009/02/virt-manager-in-fedora-11-new-vm-wizard.html
- ↑ http://magazine.redhat.com/
- ↑ http://magazine.redhat.com/2009/02/27/video-spotlight-on-mirror-manager/
- ↑ http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/2009/03/01/systemtap-09-cast-away/
Events
Diaa Radwan posted[1] pictures and a report from Fedora Day at Misr University for Science and Technology.
Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury wrote[2] about the Kalyani Government Engineering College Install Fest and FAD.