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
Máirín Duffy said[1] it best: "ZOMG Stickers!!!!11"
Rex Dieter announced[2] a new fedora-kde mailing list
Harald Hoyer analyzed[3] the Fedora 10 boot process on an EeePC 901 with a solid-state disk, including some easy optimizations
Casey Dahlin wrote a series[4,5,6,7] on a new internal state machine driving the Upstart service manager
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay discussed[8] some of the commonly overlooked difficulties of the commonly overlooked process of internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n)
Warren Togami had[9] some problems netbooting old PowerPC Macs as Thin Clients (and is open to suggestions)
Tim Waugh posted[10] a tutorial on preventing a Python/GTK+ application from appearing to freeze while performing CUPS operations
Abhishek Rane summarized[11] his thoughts on "Best of FOSS and Linux in 2008"
Dimitris Glezos described[12] Transifex and their new startup company built around it
Christoph Wickert embedded[13] a video interview with Mario Behling talking about LXDE
Jef Spaleta offered[14] a number of retrospective questions at the end of his tenure on the Fedora Board
Sébastien Bilbeau posted[15] the "25 Best Linux Desktop Customization Screenshots"
Yaakov Nemoy mused[16] about the relationship between the Open Source development process and anarchy
[1] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/65838.html
[2] http://rdieter.livejournal.com/11262.html
[3] http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-10-boot-analysis
[4] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine.html
[5] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine-part-2.html
[6] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine-part-3.html
[7] http://screwyouenterpriseedition.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-upstart-state-machine-part-4.html
[8] http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2008/12/16/and-here-we-go-again-2/
[9] http://wtogami.livejournal.com/29574.html
[10] http://cyberelk.net/tim/2008/12/17/cups-gtk-python-and-threading/
[11] http://www.abhishekrane.com/2008/12/17/best-of-foss-and-linux-in-2008/
[12] http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2008/12/17/chasing-a-dream
[13] http://www.christoph-wickert.de/blog/2008/12/18/lxde-presentation-at-red-hat-singapore/
[14] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/29998.html
[15] http://www.tux-planet.fr/25-best-linux-desktop-customization-screenshots/
[16] http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2008/12/open-source-and-anarchism.html
Events
Fedora Release Party in Milan[17]
Fedora Day at Menoufiya Universty, Egypt[18]
[17] http://people.byte-code.com/fcrippa/2008/12/19/fedora-release-party-milan-italy/
[18] http://www.fossology.net/Fedora_Day_at_Menoufiya_Universty_Egypt_release_10