Fedora Weekly Report: 17th - 23rd March, 2008

Another week has just ended, bringing you, Fedora users, a few interesting facts and events. Fedora 9 Beta should've been released last week, but it was delayed a few days to avoid launching the beta the day before the Catholic Easter.

Jesse Keating announced the delay of Fedora 9 Beta on the fedora-announce-list on Thursday, saying the following: "In order to give time for mirrors to sync up the Fedora 9 Beta bits, and to do some last minute testing, and to avoid releasing beta the day before a Holiday for a large part of the world, we have decided to delay the release of Fedora 9 Beta until Tuesday, March 25th. However since we're confident in the Beta content, we will be unfreezing rawhide today so that development can continue as planned."

If you are going to attend Notacon 5, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, you will find a Fedora booth there. Notacon is an annual conference that is slightly different from other conferences, because it tries to bring together technologies, philosophy and creativity in the same place and to complement and strike a balance to other "hacker events."

Paul Frields, the Fedora Project leader, announced the guidelines on the Ambassadors mailing list to stay GPL compliant when distributing Fedora media at events they attend to. The first thing that Frields wanted the Ambassadors to do is to let everyone know that the source code for the binaries on the media is available on Fedora's official site. The second was to bring blank CDs, a computer with a CD burner and a copy of the SRPMS directory matching the Fedora release for which they're giving the media.

The security advisories available this week for Fedora 7 are as following:

• libsilc-1.0.2-6.fc7
• asterisk-1.4.18.1-1.fc7
• krb5-1.6.1-9.fc7

And the ones for Fedora 8 are:

• asterisk-1.4.18.1-1.fc8
• xine-lib-1.1.11-1.fc8
• libsilc-1.0.2-6.fc8
• krb5-1.6.2-14.fc8

Download Fedora 8 right now from Softpedia.



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