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
Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury explained[1] how to build a Live USB stick from a Live CD image. Another option, suggested in the comments, is to use the liveusb-creator[2].
Paul W. Frields described[3] some of the preparations that the Fedora Marketing team has been making for Fedora 11, including in-depth articles on some of the new features.
Richard Hughes showed off[4] an updated Gnome PackageKit update viewer.
Rob Tiller, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, IP at Red Hat responded[5] to concerns within the community about Red Hat's patenting efforts and the Red Hat Patent Policy[6]. Paul W. Frields wrote[7] about the response, and a lively discussion in the comments ensued.
David Woodhouse posted[8] about some documentation he had written to support Greylisting and the exim-greylist package shipped with Fedora.
Jef Spaleta wrote[9] his "most important Fedora blog post ever" which revolves around the "NSF sponsored workshop on Sustainable Cyberinfrastructure"[10]. The workshop is important "for people who believe in either the function of basic science research as a catalyst for technical and social progress or people who believe strongly in open development methodologies as a catalyst for deeper and more impactful collaborations. Even more so if you happen to be in the union of those groups and a US citizen and care about how the NSF as a Federal agency goes about funding research and education."
As an interesting aside, Dave Jones mentioned[11] that it takes two days and twenty minutes to run badblocks on his new 1TB hard drives.
Richard W.M. Jones worked[12] on building a minimal Fedora installation and managed to get an installed system down to 225MB. He later responded[13] to a comment about why it makes sense to minimize Fedora as opposed to building a custom minimal distribution. And then he managed[14] to get the minimal distribution down to 15.9MB.
Amit Shah benchmarked[15] various filesystems (including ext4) to find out how well they handled pre-allocation of disk space and the new Linux fallocate support.
- ↑ http://sherry151.blogspot.com/2009/03/live-usb-magic.html
- ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
- ↑ http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1437
- ↑ http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/03/17/the-next-update-viewer/
- ↑ http://www.press.redhat.com/2009/03/17/discouraging-software-patent-lawsuits/
- ↑ http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html
- ↑ http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1536
- ↑ http://www.advogato.org/person/dwmw2/diary.html?start=201
- ↑ http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/37433.html
- ↑ http://cisoftwaresustainability.iu-pti.org/
- ↑ http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/03/19/badblocks-1tb-drive/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/why-minimal-is-225-mb/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/why-not-use-a-minimal-distribution/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/febootstrap-minimal-now-159-mb/
- ↑ http://www.amitshah.net/2009/03/comparison-of-file-systems-and-speeding.html