Fedora Outage Notice for August 30th, 2006
by Warren Togami
Date: August 30th, 2006
Time: 8:00AM - 8:00PM Mountain Standard Time (UTC -7)
Fedora Project Infrastructure is scheduled for maintenance during
Wednesday, August 30th for co-location facility upgrades. The servers
will be back online by no later than 08:00PM MST (UTC-7).
Unaffected Services:
- Fedora Wiki
- Fedora Mailing Lists
Services Affected:
- Fedora Extras Buildsystem
- Fedora CVS/Mercurial/Git
- Fedora Orbital Laser
- Fedora Account System
- Fedora OTRS
Generally the entire development infrastructure will be down for the
day. The good news is that this upgrade will allow for improved
reliability and expansion capacity for future Fedora Infrastructure and
services.
We apologize for any inconvenience this outage may cause. Thank you for
supporting the Fedora Project.
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com
16 years, 9 months
Fedora Core Live Spins Released!
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen
Fedora Unity releases Fedora Core 5 Live-Spin ISO images.
Official Fedora Live images are something we all have been looking
forward to seeing in the Fedora Community. Kadischi will be the tool to
create such live images. Fedora Unity has recently joined forces with
Kadischi to help provide testing and to release live images which we are
calling "Live-Spins."
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of a new
Live-Spin CD and DVD ISO image of Fedora Core 5. These Live-Spin ISOs
are based on Fedora Core 5 and all updates released as of August 21st,
2006. They are available for the i386 architecture via BitTorrent
starting Monday, August 28th, 2006 via BitTorrent.
The Fedora Core 5 CD image features a 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 kernel and GNOME
2.14.1, along with applications such as xchat, gftp, OpenOffice.org
2.0.3, and other utilities. The DVD image includes roughly "everything
but the kitchen sink."
Also available at this time are "pristine" FC6T2 Live ISO images from
the initial FC6T2 release.
The Fedora Unity Project was created by concerned peers in the Fedora
Community to bring quality solutions to the Community. Project members
want to see the best solutions find their way into the hands of the
Community. Members include site maintainers, Fedora Project contributors
and interested users.
Fedora Unity has taken up the Live-Spin task to provide the Community
with the chance to test Fedora Core with recent updates in a Live Media
environment. This is a Community project, for the Community and by the
Community. You can contribute to the Community by seeding the torrent
after your download has completed or by joining the test process.
The Fedora Unity Project intends to release early and release often. New
Live-Spins are provided early each month during the life of each Fedora
Core release until that release is transferred to Fedora Legacy. Early
snapshots are taken mid-month to start testing. Final snapshots will be
taken about a week before the release. All released ISO images are
tested to ensure the quality that the Fedora community expects. If you
are interested in helping with the testing or seeding efforts, please
contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact information is available at
http://fedoraunity.org/.
Go to http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/ to join the torrent!
To report bugs in the Live-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/
For more information about Kadischi see it's page on the wiki
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi
Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc.
--
Robert 'Bob' Jensen * * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen
gpg fingerprint: F9F4 7243 4243 0043 2C45 97AF E8A4 C3AE 42EB 0BC6
Fedora Unity Project * bob(a)fedoraunity.org * http://fedoraunity.org/
16 years, 9 months
Fedora Core 5 Re-Spin 20060818 Released!
by Robert 'Bob' Jensen
Again, Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora Core 5 Re-Spins.
The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new DVD ISO
Re-Spins of Fedora Core 5. These Re-Spin ISOs are based upon Fedora
Core 5 and all updates released as of August 18th, 2006. The ISO images
are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via BitTorrent starting
Monday, August 28th, 2006.
The Fedora Unity Project was created by concerned peers in the Fedora
Community to bring quality solutions to the Community. Project members
want to see the best solutions find their way into the hands of the
Community. Members include site maintainers, Fedora Project
contributors and interested users.
Fedora Unity has taken up the Re-Spin task to provide the Community with
the chance to install Fedora Core with recent updates already included.
These updates might otherwise comprise up to 700MiB of downloads for a
default install. This is a Community project, for and by the Community.
You can contribute to the Community by seeding the torrent after your
download has completed, or by joining the test process.
The Fedora Unity Project intends to release early and often. New
Re-Spins are provided early each month during the life of a Fedora Core
release, until that release is transferred to Fedora Legacy. Early
snapshots are taken mid-month to start testing. Final snapshots are
taken about a week before the release. All released ISO images are
tested using a 15-point test matrix to ensure the quality the Fedora
community expects. If you are interested in helping with the testing or
seeding efforts, please contact the Fedora Unity team. Contact
information is available at http://fedoraunity.org/.
Go to http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/ to join the torrent!
To report bugs in the Re-Spins please use http://bugs.fedoraunity.org/
Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc.
--
Robert 'Bob' Jensen * * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen
gpg fingerprint: F9F4 7243 4243 0043 2C45 97AF E8A4 C3AE 42EB 0BC6
Fedora Unity Project * bob(a)fedoraunity.org * http://fedoraunity.org/
16 years, 9 months
What's been up to FedoraNEWS.ORG?
by Thomas Chung
As we have reached our 60th Issue[1] of Fedora Weekly News, I thought it would be a good
time to look back what's been up to FedoraNEWS.ORG for next few month.
Looking back, it's been quite a journey for FedoraNEWS.ORG when it was first launched on
2003-11-09[2]. It started as my personal web site where I publish notes I took as I
explore Fedora Core 1. Since then, the site has changed its face a few times from HTML
to WordPress then WikiMedia and now Drupal. Our weekly newsletter Fedora Weekly News is
now being translated in 8 different languages including English, French, German,
Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Korean, Serbian and we're even offering Podcast in English
and French!
What a remarkable accomplishment you might say. To tell you the truth, there were times
when I wake up middle of the night to start the article and finish it well after 4 in
the morning and asking myself why am I doing this? Does this ever end? When will be a
good time to take a break? A perfect time has come.
Beginning Monday August 28th until Sunday October 1st, FedoraNEWS.ORG will be taking a
long vacation. It's time for us (me and my wife) to give full attention to our unborn
baby and soon-to-be new member of Fedora Community. :)
[1] http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Fedora_Weekly_News_Issue_60
[2] http://fedoranews.org/tchung/howto/2003-11-09-yum-intro.shtml
Best Regards,
--
Thomas Chung
FedoraNEWS.ORG (http://fedoranews.org)
"..where you can free your knowledge for your free community!"
16 years, 9 months
Join Fedora @ LinuxWorld SF 2006
by Jack Aboutboul
Hitch yer saddles and get on yer ponies because Fedora is going west!!
What?
The Fedora Project booth (.org Pavilion #20) (http://tinyurl.com/gu3a2)
and Birds of a Feather Session (http://tinyurl.com/krj2p) at LinuxWorld
Conference and Expo San Francisco 2006! (http://www.linuxworldexpo.com)
Where?
Moscone Center North
800 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
When?
Fedora Booth is open on the show floor in the .org Pavilion August
15-17. The Fedora BoF will be held on Tuesday August 15th at
6:00pm-7:00pm.
Who?
Everyone!! Fedora welcomes all community members and anyone interested
in learning about attaining freedom through software. Don't know what
Linux or Fedora is? Interested in learning more about Linux, Fedora and
how they can benefit you? Stop by the booth and ask your questions and
get free stuff!
Are you already a member of the community with time to kill and would
like to help us run the booth? Email jaboutboul(a)fedoraproject.org and
let him know.
How?
Plane, train, bus, horse, camel, lamaa. Make sure you print your free
exhibit hall pass by visiting http://tinyurl.com/grr2l and registering.
See you all in San Francisco!
16 years, 10 months
Fedora usability was born!
by Damien Durand
Hello everyone, I announce that the Fedora usability Project was born.
What's fedora Usability?
The Fedora Usability project aims to provide coherence, accessibility and
intuivity for all people using Fedora Core and its associated resources.
Fedora must be easy and making things simple and coherent for a pleasant use
is my objectif with this project.
Our Mission
- Help developers to build coherent and easy to use applications for Fedora
human users
- Help webmasters to provide coherent websites
- Help Docs Writers to provide a coherent and comprehensive documentation
How do we work?
We track uncoherent things in the fedora project and send patch to different
maintainers to fix those. All things are listed on the schedule and you are
free to provide your assistance.
For more informations about this project, see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Usability
You want help ? Feel free to add your name to the Usability Group :
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EditGroup
You can join http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list and
#fedora-usability channel on irc.freenode.org to speak about this ;-)
Damien Durand
16 years, 10 months
Fedora Core 4 Transferred to Fedora Legacy
by Bill Nottingham
With the release of Fedora Core 6 Test 2, the Fedora Core Steering
Committee would like to announce the transfer of Fedora Core 4 to
the Fedora Legacy Project.
For more information on the Fedora Legacy Project, or if you wish
to join the team, please see http://fedoralegacy.org/.
16 years, 10 months