Fedora Weekly Report: 18th - 24th February, 2008

In the Fedora world, last week was somewhat quieter than we were used to. There are only a few security advisories and a small number of discussions and events. Let's take a look over the most important ones.

Max Spevack announced that the next North American FUDCon would be held in Boston, MA. It will take place from June 19 to 21, at the same time - and in the same location - with the Red Hat Summit. There will be two large rooms, one for a Fedora hackfest and the other for a series of talks on Fedora.

Two new SIGs (Special Interest Group) have sprung up this week: Fedora Amateur Radio SIG, also known as Fedora-Hams - and Fedora Education SIG. The first one was initiated by Robert Jensen, because he noticed there were a lot of radio related programs in all the major distros, but none in Fedora. The Fedora Education SIG was created by Sebastian Dziallas for persons interested in education.

Francesco Ugolini proposed that a Fedora Spin with open source movie, sound and graphics programs should be created, as an alternative to the expensive commercial products. There were some persons who considered this a good idea, but Nicu Buculei said that the applications for such a Spin were not ready yet. For the moment, the idea hangs in the air, waiting for a good moment to materialize.

A new GDM is being prepared for Fedora 9, which will inherit all the changes done for the desktop, so the transition from the greeter to the default session runs pretty smooth. The "de-branding" of the desktop graphics will continue, avoiding the usage of logos and similar things that might be related to Fedora.

There are only three security advisories for Fedora 8 and 7. The one for Fedora 7 is moin-1.5.8-4.fc7 and the two for Fedora 8 are pcre-7.3-3.fc8 and moin-1.5.8-4.fc8.

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