The Fedora Project has posted the Fedora Desktop User Guide for Fedora Core 6
The Fedora Core 7 Test 1 Release Notes have been published:
Fedora 7 Test 1 Release Notes
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An abridged, "one-sheet" version of the Release Notes for Fedora 7 test1 (6.90) is now available at the following URL:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F7Test1/ReleaseNotes
For test1 and test2 releases, the Fedora Documentation Project does not release complete sets of release notes. A full set of release notes is released with test3, including a robust set of localizations provided by volunteer translators. This schedule allows us to make efficient use of volunteer resources for writing, editing, and translating content.
The release notes process requires participation from documenters, developers, and other interested community members throughout the test release cycles. To find out more about how you can help, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ReleaseNotes/Process.
Fedora is a set of projects sponsored by Red Hat and guided by the contributors. These projects are developed by a large community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software and standards. The central Fedora project is an operating system and platform based on Linux that is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute, now and forever.
Fedora 7 Test 1 Release Notes
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An abridged, "one-sheet" version of the Release Notes for Fedora 7 test1 (6.90) is now available at the following URL:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F7Test1/ReleaseNotes
For test1 and test2 releases, the Fedora Documentation Project does not release complete sets of release notes. A full set of release notes is released with test3, including a robust set of localizations provided by volunteer translators. This schedule allows us to make efficient use of volunteer resources for writing, editing, and translating content.
The release notes process requires participation from documenters, developers, and other interested community members throughout the test release cycles. To find out more about how you can help, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ReleaseNotes/Process.
Fedora is a set of projects sponsored by Red Hat and guided by the contributors. These projects are developed by a large community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software and standards. The central Fedora project is an operating system and platform based on Linux that is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute, now and forever.
Issue number 76 of Fedora Weekly News is online
Hello Fedora world!
Yes, that's right! It's done! Bring out the horns, spread the news, the Unofficial Fedora FAQ is updated for Fedora Core 6!
http://www.fedorafaq.org/
There are a LOT of changes in the new FAQ:
* Updated yum configuration
* Updated Java instructions
* Uses mozplugger for PDFs instead of Acrobat Reader
* Uses ntfs-3g so you can read and write to your NTFS drives
* Help for 64-bit users, since I now have a 64-bit machine!
And there are lots and lots of other improvements--I went over every question, in detail, to make sure that each one was good.
Enjoy the updated FAQ! And as always, please do contribute:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/contribute/
-Max
Yes, that's right! It's done! Bring out the horns, spread the news, the Unofficial Fedora FAQ is updated for Fedora Core 6!
http://www.fedorafaq.org/
There are a LOT of changes in the new FAQ:
* Updated yum configuration
* Updated Java instructions
* Uses mozplugger for PDFs instead of Acrobat Reader
* Uses ntfs-3g so you can read and write to your NTFS drives
* Help for 64-bit users, since I now have a 64-bit machine!
And there are lots and lots of other improvements--I went over every question, in detail, to make sure that each one was good.
Enjoy the updated FAQ! And as always, please do contribute:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/contribute/
-Max
Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released:
Just a quick blurb. Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are still fine tuning targetted spins of the collection as part of the merger of Core and Extras. We also produced a LiveCD that has the ability to install to your harddrive should you wish.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7 has the gory details of our work o the 7th release of Fedora.
Just a quick blurb. Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are still fine tuning targetted spins of the collection as part of the merger of Core and Extras. We also produced a LiveCD that has the ability to install to your harddrive should you wish.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7 has the gory details of our work o the 7th release of Fedora.
Smolt is a hardware profiler for Fedora so we can get a better idea of what type of hardware is out there in the Fedora universe. It's still in beta but those of you running FC6 or newer (rawhide) can participate.
Just type "yum install smolt" followed by "smoltSendProfile". All sends are anonymous and the only tie to hardware is via a UUID that gets sent. We can't trace the UUID back to you without you giving us the UUID, which may be helpful for those experiencing hardware or driver issues.
Check out the stats at http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats
For more information on smolt look at:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/wiki
and
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/wiki/Scope
-Mike
Just type "yum install smolt" followed by "smoltSendProfile". All sends are anonymous and the only tie to hardware is via a UUID that gets sent. We can't trace the UUID back to you without you giving us the UUID, which may be helpful for those experiencing hardware or driver issues.
Check out the stats at http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/stats
For more information on smolt look at:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/wiki
and
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/smolt/wiki/Scope
-Mike
Fedora announced this month that by using a tracking tool to monitor unique IP addresses, it was able to determine that Fedora Core 6 now has more than one million users. Fedora decided to track metrics with the release of Fedora Core 6 (FC6) because the lack of data from previous releases made it difficult to be sure what users value in Fedora Core packages. Not only does the data help with improving future releases, it also attests to the growing number of Linux users within the computing community which, in turn, may spur hardware vendors into offering more Linux-friendly goods and services.
Fedora's metrics have ripple effect
Fedora's metrics have ripple effect
Fedora Weekly News Issue 75 is online
Fedora Weekly News Issue 74 is online
Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora Core 6 Re-Spins.
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora Core 6. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora Core 6 and all updates released as of January 11th, 2007. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via BitTorrent starting Thursday, January 18th, 2007. PPC images will follow within the next 5 days, but will have had only limited testing.
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora Core 6. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora Core 6 and all updates released as of January 11th, 2007. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via BitTorrent starting Thursday, January 18th, 2007. PPC images will follow within the next 5 days, but will have had only limited testing.
Fedora Weekly News Issue 73 is online
My fellow Fedorans,
I'm very pleased to announce that Red Hat has hired Mike McGrath to be the Fedora Infrastructure Leader, as first mentioned on this list back in December. Those of you who are active contributors to Fedora already know Mike, and are familiar with his work.
I'm very pleased to announce that Red Hat has hired Mike McGrath to be the Fedora Infrastructure Leader, as first mentioned on this list back in December. Those of you who are active contributors to Fedora already know Mike, and are familiar with his work.
Welcome to our issue number 72 of Fedora Weekly News.
In this issue, we have following articles:
1 One Million Fedora Users!
2 FUDCon Reminder
3 Fedora 7 Schedule
4 Speaking at SCALE
5 Security Features in RHEL and Fedora Core
6 Security Week in Review 2006-12-31
7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-01-01
8 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates
9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News
10 Editor's Blog
Fedora Weekly News Issue 72
In this issue, we have following articles:
1 One Million Fedora Users!
2 FUDCon Reminder
3 Fedora 7 Schedule
4 Speaking at SCALE
5 Security Features in RHEL and Fedora Core
6 Security Week in Review 2006-12-31
7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-01-01
8 Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates
9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News
10 Editor's Blog
Fedora Weekly News Issue 72
In case any of you are not aware, the Fedora Legacy project is in the process of shutting down.
The current model for supporting maintenance distributions is being re-examined. In the meantime, we are unable to extend support to older Fedora Core releases as we had planned. As of now, Fedora Core 4 and earlier distributions are no longer being maintained.
The current model for supporting maintenance distributions is being re-examined. In the meantime, we are unable to extend support to older Fedora Core releases as we had planned. As of now, Fedora Core 4 and earlier distributions are no longer being maintained.
After lots of feedback, bug fixing and testing of the beta live CD announced 3 weeks ago, I'm pleased to announce the first official Fedora live CD. This live CD is based on packages from the Fedora Core 6 (codenamed "Zod") and Fedora Extras package collections and is such 100% free software. At a glance, the live CD features
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