14 DAY TRIAL // Another week just passed and there were a few interesting things in the Fedora world, like the Board Elections that opened three days ago, the FedoraLife concept proposed by Markus McLaughlin, and the reminder for Fedora 7 End of Life.
Paul Frields was the one who announced on the fedora-announce mailing list the opening of the elections for the Fedora Project Board. The election process started at 0001 UTC on June 13. Anyone who had a FAS (Fedora Account System) account and who completed the CLA had the right to vote in the election. If you haven't voted yet, you can do so until June 22.
Fedora 7 reached its EOL (End of Life) on June 13, and Bill Nottingham reminded everyone about this fact on the fedora-devel-announce mailing list: "This is a reminder that F7 goes EOL on 2008-06-13. If you have any critical updates lingering in testing, you may want to have them moved final before then."
The FedoraLife concept offered by Markus McLaughlin is somewhat similar to Apple's iLife software suite. He said on the fedora-marketing mailing list: "The "fedoraLife" Concept is several visuals accompanied by descriptions that will inspire many Fedora programmers to come up with programs that is [sic] missing in Fedora. What is missing in Fedora? Well, to begin with, there is no iPhoto-like software to view photos in a photo album-like setting. Another missing software is an iMovie-like application that edits video and audio from a digital source using OGG Theora or some other video codec. Another missing software is a Toast-like GUI that uses the already existing dvd/cd burning tools. And another missing software would combine Skype-like tools with a tool for Virtual Conventions/Meetings. This will be very useful in the future. This concept will make Fedora unique and more useful than all of the other Linux Distros available now."
Let's have a look at the security updates for this week. We'll start with Fedora 7:
￭ net-snmp-5.4-18.fc7 ￭ kronolith-2.1.8-1.fc7 ￭ OpenOffice.org-2.3.0-6.9.fc7 ￭ xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-17.fc7 ￭ roundcubemail-0.2-0.alpha.fc7.1
Let's move on to Fedora 8, codenamed "Werewolf":
￭ net-snmp-5.4.1-7.fc8 ￭ openoffice.org-2.3.0-6.15.fc8 ￭ roundcubemail-0.2-0.alpha.fc8 ￭ xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-46.fc8 ￭ kronolith-2.1.8-1.fc8
There were also a few security advisories for Fedora 9 "Sulphur":
￭ openoffice.org-2.4.1-17.3.fc9 ￭ net-snmp-5.4.1-18.fc9 ￭ kernel-2.6.25.6-55.fc9 ￭ xorg-x11-server-1.4.99.902-3.20080612.fc9 ￭ roundcubemail-0.2-0.alpha.fc9
Download Fedora 9 right now from Softpedia.