Fedora Weekly Report: 12th - 18th May, 2008

Last week was download frenzy for Fedora 9, as it was released on Tuesday, and preparations started for the next major edition, Fedora 10. Those of you who didn't know how to set up Fedora on their computers learned how to do it using this guide. Now, everyone can help squash some bugs by using the Cooperative Bug Isolation Project, or CBI. Read on to find out more!

Jesse Keating announced on the fedora-announce mailing list that, starting with 13th May, the "rawhide" repositories would contain Fedora 10 content: "In preparation of the Fedora 9 release tomorrow, we've flipped the configuration bit that will allow "rawhide" to be composed from Fedora 10 content tomorrow. This will likely fail in spectacular ways due to all the pent up builds so it should be interesting."

Paul Frields presented the changes that took place over the years, since the first release of Fedora (or "Fedora Core", as it was called at that time). Besides talking about technical things, he also showed us the power of the community and congratulated everyone who contributed to Fedora. On the fedora-announce mailing list he said: "We push the improvements and results out as 100% free and open source, available for everyone to use, poke, prod, and build upon. That's why Fedora is so much more than a Linux distribution. It's a mindset - "Doing The Right Thing," as we like to say. Giving credit where credit is due, and working hand-in-hand with others, but not being afraid to stand apart when doing otherwise means sacrificing hard-won ground. But most importantly, Fedora is a community, where people come together for a common good - making it possible for every human being, everywhere to have the same access to information, communication, standards, and knowledge."

The official Fedora 9 announcement was made by Jesse Keating in quite a prophetical manner, as he told us that "the prophecy of the 9 comes true (Fedora 9 walks the earth!)".

If you want a complete system, with everything you would need, then the Fedora 9 Everything Spin is for you. This is a Spin that comes on four DVDs or 23 CDs. At the end of the week, we found out that Fedora users could help even more with the development of their favorite Linux distro, thanks to the Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI). Ben Liblit was the one who brought the good news, and explained how this project worked. Basically, the developers from CBI provide a modified version of most of the popular applications, like Pidgin, The GIMP, Nautilus, etc., which monitor themselves and report back on how they work or crash.

As Fedora 9 was launched, we now have more security advisories added to those of Fedora 7 and 8. Let's start with the older releases first:

Security advisories for Fedora 7:

• blender-2.45-14.fc7
• libid3tag-0.15.1b-5.fc7
• libvorbis-1.1.2-4.fc7
• licq-1.3.4-8.fc7
• perl-Imager-0.64-2.fc7
• rdesktop-1.6.0-1.fc7
• libfishsound-0.9.1-1.fc7
• kernel-2.6.23.17-88.fc7
• openoffice.org-2.3.0-6.8.fc7

And those for Fedora 8 are:

• kernel-2.6.24.7-92.fc8
• blender-2.45-14.fc8
• licq-1.3.4-9.fc8
• rdesktop-1.6.0-1.fc8
• libid3tag-0.15.1b-5.fc8

Now, the security advisories for Fedora 9 "Sulphur":

• zoneminder-1.22.3-14.fc9
• libid3tag-0.15.1b-6.fc9
• cups-1.3.7-2.fc9
• sipp-3.1-1.fc9
• bugzilla-3.0.4-1.fc9
• tkimg-1.3-0.10.20080505svn.fc9
• licq-1.3.5-2.fc9
• rdesktop-1.6.0-1.fc9
• clamav-0.93-1.fc9
• libvorbis-1.2.0-4.fc9
• kernel-2.6.25.3-18.fc9
• perl-Imager-0.64-2.fc9
• lighttpd-1.4.19-4.fc9
• mt-daapd-0.2.4.2-2.fc9

Download Fedora 9 right now from Softpedia.



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