Hi,
All freshrpms add-on packages are now available for Fedora 7.
http://freshrpms.net/ - "click here" to import yum configuration
http://moonshine.freshrpms.net/ for the complete package listing
Have fun!
Matthias
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Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/
Fedora Core release 6 (Zod) - Linux kernel 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6
Load : 0.41 0.18 0.15
Howdy, cousins! Welcome to our little Fedora hollow, where we've
brewed up some mighty, mighty Fedora 7 Moonshine for your enjoyment.
Here, I'll help you pour that ... and some for me ... *cough, cough*
Smoooooth ... sure does taste good. It's been sitting here in the jug
for almost a whole month now! Go ahead and help yourself to some
more:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html
What's the most important thing to do if you are upgrading your Fedora
version? Why, that's easy! Read the release notes, it prevents
hangovers:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes
What are new things to do with your Moonshine?
* Mix and remix this Moonshine to come up with as many flavored drinks
as there is Joe-Pye weed in the Appalachians. Want an OS to
send home with the students or staff? Add packages, remove
packages, spin it any way you like. Let a thousand distros bloom!
* Bottle up that custom mix and call it an appliance. ISV building an
appliance product? Make an RPM, identify the minimal number of
packages needed for an appliance around that RPM, then build a
distro and a live image. Easy as moon pie.
Gol' darn, but this is good 'shine. *hic* There, is that enough? No?
Here, let me pour us some more, and we can toast the most important
part of this Moonshine -- the makers. You thought I made it? Oh, no.
No special elite brewmaster here, I'm just a bartender, and this log
is my bar! Ha ha. No, really ... see ...
Fedora 7 is the first release where the development was one hunnerd
and one per-cent in the community. How? It's simple, cousin -- all
the code was merged into a single external repository. Why? Same
great distribution quality, even more high-quality developers able to
work directly with the code and improve the flavor of over 7500
packages.
Grab that jug, look inside, and you find:
* KDE? Yep, with Moonshine, Fedora and KDE are gettin' downright
friendly with each other.
* Laptops? A tickless kernel means better power consumption for
laptops; extended wireless functionality, meaning more chances
hardware will Just Work. Yee-ha!
* Get those Live images, burn CDs or DVDs, and share them with your
friends and neighbors. This is the first Fedora distribution with
full Live CD/DVD capability.
* Interoperability? Let's start with resizing and reading of NTFS
file systems. How about those Liberation fonts, d'you like how they
just slip right in where other fonts were used?
* Why stop with just one fruit jar of virtualization? This release
includes support for KVM and overall more virtualization capability.
* As always, tasty new graphics for the Fedora 7 desktop, as well as
an updated Website look and functionality, including a new build and
package update system.
More? Read up at:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-OverView.html
Oops, looks like we drank up all that jug. Guess I'll just make a
trip over the torrents to get me another. All right, then, we'll
see you. Y'all come back soon now, ya hear?
= Want Fedora? Get Fedora =
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html
ATrpms is officially launching Fedora 7 support for i386, x86_64 and
ppc.
http://ATrpms.net/dist/f7/
o The packages will be available at `date -d "Thu May 31 14:00 UTC"',
which is Fedora's release. I usually wait for the official release
announcement of Fedora to announce ATrpms' support, but due to
LinuxTag activities I'll be afk for about 24h.
o The actual download location is http://dl.atrpms.net/. Mirrors are
listed at http://atrpms.net/mirrors/
o "stable", "testing" and "bleeding", the three subrepos per
distribution are not cumulative inclusive on the server
side.
E.g. you need to add "stable" for "testing", and both "stable"
and "testing" for "bleeding".
ATrpms is a 3rd party general purpose package repository. It currently
supports
o F7/i386, F7/x86_64, F7/ppc, FC6/i386, FC6/x86_64, FC6/ppc, FC5/i386,
FC5/x86_64, FC5/ppc
o RHEL5/i386, RHEL5/x86_64, RHEL4/i386, RHEL4/x86_64, RHEL3/i386,
RHEL3/x86_64
ATrpms support for RH7.3, RH8.0, RH9 and FC1-FC4 was EOL'd with the
last year's passing. FC5 support will be EOL'd once the Fedora Project
drops support for it (e.g. in approximately one month).
Configuration for package resolvers (replace i386 with x86_64 or ppc
as needed)
o yum
[atrpms]
name=Fedora 7 - i386 - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f7-i386/atrpms/stable
o smart
[atrpms]
name=Fedora 7 - i386 - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/f7-i386/atrpms/stable
type=rpm-md
o apt
repomd http://dl.atrpms.net f7-i386/atrpms/stable
you can provide feedback or request support on the ATrpms lists
(http://lists.atrpms.net/) or the common bug tracker
(http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/)
Enjoy!
--
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
My fellow Fedorans,
In a few hours (about 10:00 AM EDT/2:00 PM GMT), Fedora 7 will go live
to the world.
It's the middle of the night in the main Red Hat offices in Raleigh and
Westford, but I amm in Berlin this week for LinuxTag, which is the
largest Linux conference in Europe (10,000 visitors over 4 days).
We have a great looking Fedora booth, and we are holding a FUDCon
(Fedora Users and Developers Conference) here today during which we have
a conference hall that probably seats 150 people all to ourselves. We
are giving speeches and talks about Fedora all day long, both in German
and in English. I've already had several people come by asking when
Alan Cox will be arriving. Answer: Real Soon Now.
We have several activities ongoing at the Fedora booth, including an
install-fest, and a troubleshooting contest with prizes that include
free books and free Red Hat training classes. We have all variety of
Fedora swag as well. It's quite an impressive setup here at LinuxTag,
and worth noting that the entire organizational force behind the event
was driven by our Fedora Ambassador community of volunteers.
This email is my "personal" Fedora 7 release announcement, and also
touches on some of the topics that I will mention during my speech at
FUDCon today.
Before I talk about Fedora 7, it's useful to look at recent history.
One of the Fedora Project's mottos is "the rapid progress of free and
open source software." With Fedora Core 5 in March of 2006, Fedora Core
6 in October of 2006, and Fedora 7 today, that's about 7 months per
release. And with several million Fedora Core 6 installs, everyone who
works on Fedora should feel very proud that not only is the software
being released often, but it's also high quality, and in high use around
the world.
====
Fedora 7 represents the culmination of several goals that Fedora has
spent the last few releases (spanning the course of at least 2 years)
working to achieve.
I've written previously on this list about the aspects of Fedora 7 that
I think are the most important (http://tinyurl.com/yuc7ax)
>From my perspective, it is the fundamental infrastructure changes that
Fedora 7 represents that are the biggest achievement.
The entire Fedora toolchain has been freed. Every step in the
distribution-building process is completely open.
Code checked into an external CVS. Packages built on a completely
external build system. Distros and LiveCDs built on completely open
compose tools.
All of this functionality is available via the command line or via a
graphical tool that is build on the APIs that we provide.
For folks who hack on free software, I hope that this is a compelling
development environment in which to work. For folks who are end users
of free software, we believe that the Fedora toolchain allows people to
remix Fedora, and customize it in ways that will provide a much wider
variety of Fedora-based spins than we could ever offer if "Fedora
Release Engineering" had to build them all directly.
There is plenty more, but this email isn't meant to be an exhaustive
list of Fedora 7 release features.
====
Additionally, I'd like to mention a few other new things that Fedora has
completed in time for Fedora 7:
Our home page, fedoraproject.org has a new look. We've added a series
of static HTML pages that sit on top of our wiki, and I think it makes
the initial experience of fedoraproject.org much simpler, and much more
useful. The organized chaos of the wiki is all still just one click
away, but we didn't want first-time visitors to fp.o overwhelmed with
the wiki from the first instant.
Our documentation pages have also been given some new organization,
living at docs.fedoraproject.org.
The lifespan of a Fedora release has been increased to "two releases
plus one month". This means that Fedora Core 6 will continue to be
updated until one month after Fedora 8 is released, and Fedora 7 will be
updated until one month after Fedora 9 is released.
We've put into production new mirror management software.
The EPEL project, which aims to make packages from the Fedora repository
available for Enterprise Linux customers, has been making tremendous
progress.
The Fedora News team, which already had been doing a fantastic job, has
expanded the coverage that they provide the Fedora Project, and their
Fedora Weekly News reports offer people a fantastic summary of all the
interesting things that are happening in the Fedora Project.
And more.
====
Finally, a few words of thanks. I debated for a while listing specific
names in this email, but the number of people who deserve credit for
Fedora 7 and all of the work that has happened around Fedora 7 cannot be
enumerated without accidentally forgetting someone. So instead I will
simply say that every item discussed in this email has happened as a
result of tremendous work by Fedora contributors both inside and outside
of Red Hat. And it is the partnership of Red Hat and the Fedora
community that allows both groups to be successful.
And I speak for everyone at Red Hat when I say that it is an honor to be
a part of something like Fedora.
Congratulations to everyone on today's release.
Sincerely,
Max Spevack
Fedora Project Leader
--
Max Spevack
+ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack
+ gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc
+ fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21
The Fedora Project website has gotten a face lift:
http://fedoraproject.org/
Prior to today that site went straight to the wiki, which is largely
developer content with good (but somewhat hard to find) docs. Now we're
expanding on fedoraproject.org and adding some more user-centric content
like that found at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
The websites team has been hard at work at this for a while and we're
all excited to release it today.
Help get the word out and digg:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_Project_gets_a_web_face_lift
-Mike
Fedorans,
Another day, another email to fedora-announce-list from me.
As those of you who read this list may remember, back when we announced
the hiring of Mike McGrath as the Fedora Infrastructure Leader, the part
of that announcement that made me most happy was that we were able to hire
folks who were already well-established Fedora contributors to continue
their Fedora work full time, and earn a Red Hat paycheck doing it.
Well, I'm equally happy to announce today that both Seth Vidal and Toshio
Kuratomi have accepted jobs at Red Hat.
Now I'm make them both blush a little bit by talking a bit about their
contributions to Fedora.
Seth has been a Fedora contributor since the beginning. He is a member of
the Fedora Project Board. When I started my job with the Fedora Project
15 months ago, Seth was one of the guys who I was encouraged to talk to
frequently, and pay attention to what he says. Seth has also been known
to write some code from time to time. He leads the development of yum,
and will continue to do some from within Red Hat. He is very active in
the Fedora Infrastructure project. He has contributed significantly to
the code that makes the Fedora build system work. I don't think there is
any question that Seth is one of the true leaders within Fedora. People
seem to think he works for Red Hat already, and so we're glad to eliminate
that point of confusion also. :-)
Toshio is a rock-star programmer. Similar to Seth, he's been a Fedora
contributor for several years. He's been a member of the Fedora Extras
Steering Committee. He's worked closely with the Fedora Infrastrucutre
team on projects like the package database, and a lot of the work that
Fedora is doing with TurboGears. Toshio has worked on the Fedora Account
System, and is basically the lead developer for the Fedora Infrastructure
team. He cranks out really good code, and it's a great boon for Red Hat
to have him full time. As a signing bonus, I have set aside the LAST PAIR
of Fedora flip flops that exists for the next time I see him.
Congrats to both Seth and Toshio. Back to work, now! :-)
--
Max Spevack
+ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack
+ gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc
+ fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21
With the Red Hat Summit kicking off, I'd like to take a few minutes to
discuss some of the recent happenings in the Fedora Project, particularly
around Fedora 7. This email is being sent both to public Fedora mailing
lists, and to Red Hat mailing lists, so that folks in both the external
and internal Fedora communities can have a chance to read it, and people
can all sort of consistently spread the same message about Fedora.
FEDORA 7
The next version of Fedora will be released on May 24th. It will be
called "Fedora 7" -- not "Fedora Core 7". It's the most ambitious release
of Fedora that we've undertaken, and I hope that when we look back at
Fedora 7 one or two years down the road, the decisions that we made for
this release will have proven to be as impactful as anything we've done in
the Fedora space since the start of the Fedora Project.
In one sentence: "Fedora 7 has been about improving the manner in which
all future Fedora releases will be made."
(1) The entire toolchain is free. Every step in the distro creation
process is free software, and can take place on hardware that is
accessible both to Red Hat employees and the general Fedora community.
Source code in an external version control system.
RPMs built on an external, open source build system.
Distributions built with an external, open source compose tool.
Why is this important? Because Fedora's ultimate goal over the past few
years has been to allow proven non-Red Hat contributors to have greater
influence and access to the Fedora Project. From the technical side, this
goal has been pushed forward by the Fedora Extras project and the Fedora
Infrastructure projects, especially.
One of the Fedora Project's success metrics is building and running itself
in a way such that no single entity can completely control Fedora's fate.
Fedora 7 gets us there, insofar as there is no "secret sauce" in the
ability to spin a Fedora distribution. Nothing is hidden.
Balanced against these goals of increased openness has been the need to
create systems and infrastructure that continue to allow RHEL or other Red
Hat (not Fedora) branded products to be built and to be more firmly
controlled by Red Hat than Fedora is. Fedora serves as an upstream for
various Red Hat products, and Fedora has a responsibility to provide a
good "service" to those downstream "customers".
(2) Custom spins of Fedora. The primary consequence of (1) is that
customized versions of Fedora are now possible to an extent that was not
available previously. User-generated Fedora, if you're looking for a
buzzword. :-P
Think about some of the possibilities:
+ People in various countries *directly* managing localized spins of
Fedora, customized both for language requirements and bandwidth
requirements.
+ "Competing" spins of the Fedora Desktop, or server-ready package sets,
allowing the best ones to gain popularity and be shared.
+ The ability for a business or a university that uses Fedora to take
their own third-party RPMs and create a Fedora-derived distribution that
integrates them at build time.
(3) Live CD, DVD, and USB technology. A Fedora spin can be loaded onto
various forms of bootable media, which allows users to run their OS
without hard disk installation, and gives users the ability to launch the
installer with a simple double click. As with what is written above, the
tools used for this are all free software, and therefore everything in
this space is also fully customizable by users.
(4) Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology has been integrated with
the Fedora graphical virtualization manager tool. KVM provides a full
virtualization solution, and users have a choice between KVM and Xen,
along with Qemu, in this release.
(5) The usual set of upstream changes and improvements that are a part of
any Fedora release.
RED HAT SUMMIT
Fedora will have a good presence at the Red Hat Summit, beginning on May
9th. There are four talks specifically about Fedora -- a general Q&A, a
talk about Fedora Infrastructure, a talk about building custom versions of
Fedora, and a talk about the Live CD technology.
Furthermore, there will be a Fedora booth in the main area, where Fedora
folks will be able to have general conversations with folks. If you are
looking for me, this is a good place to start!
Additionally, we will be able to give folks who attend the Summit a Fedora
7 Preview Live DVD. This is a special spin of Fedora that we did for the
RH Summit, with custom artwork, Firefox start page, and various other
goodies.
We'll also have some of the bootable USB keys around for demonstration
purposes, as well as demonstrations going on showing folks how to build
custom spins of Fedora.
I'm putting the finishing touches on this note on a plane somewhere
between Raleigh and San Diego. :-)
FEDORA 7 LAUNCH
As stated earlier, the Fedora 7 release date is May 24th. This is one
week before LinuxTag 2007 in Berlin, which we are using as the "European
Launch" of Fedora 7. Our LinuxTag presence is being organized by Gerold
Kassube, one of our Fedora Ambassadors. The community of folks in Europe
who care deeply about Fedora is definitely a bright spot.
For those of you in Europe who will attend LinuxTag, I look forward to
seeing you there.
--
Max Spevack
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+ gpg key -- http://spevack.org/max.asc
+ fingerprint -- CD52 5E72 369B B00D 9E9A 773E 2FDB CB46 5A17 CF21