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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4.0 was released about a month and a half ago, and it was only natural for the CentOS developers to follow suit. Yesterday it was up to Karanbir Singh to officially announce the immediate availability of CentOS 5.4. This new release comes in i386 and amd64 versions and, unexpectedly, Live d... |
22 October 2009
06:41 GMT |
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The alpha version of Fedora's 12th edition, code name "Constantine", has just been released by the Fedora Project developers. Among the intriguing features that this alpha boasts we can find better support for webcams, IPv6 and system wide connections support for Network Manager, along with other networking impr... |
25 August 2009
10:35 GMT |
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While every Fedora fan enjoys the newly released Fedora 11 Linux-based operating system, the developers are working hard on the next release, Fedora 12, due for release in November-December 2009. Make sure you visit our website, starting with August 18th when the first alpha will be released, as we will do a full cov... |
18 June 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Fedora 9 was officially released one year ago, on May 13th, 2008. It was dubbed Sulphur and it was the first Fedora Linux distribution to include hard drive encryption support in the graphical installer (a feature that is still missing from the popular Ubuntu distribution). Fedora 9 was powered by the Linux kernel 2.... |
16 June 2009
09:10 GMT |
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The Fedora Project announced, a few minutes ago, the release of Fedora 11 (Leonidas) Alpha. The team invites everybody to download the ISO and start contributing with feedback, bug reports and new ideas (see below for links). The Alpha should be able to boot on any system and it offers a peek into the features that w... |
5 February 2009
10:53 GMT |
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The other day marked the fifth anniversary of Fedora, one of the most renowned Linux distributions of today. Absolutely free to download, use, distribute and modify, Fedora is an operating system that provides access to the most recent open source technologies. The name "Fedora" means “God's gift&rdqu... |
26 September 2008
10:23 GMT |
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Although Fedora 10 is nearing its release date, The Fedora Unity Project has announced the availability of the latest ISO Re-Spins (DVD Sets) for Fedora 8.The Re-Spin ISOs are based on the official Fedora 8 installation media, with all the updates available since August 14, this year. They are compatible with i386, x... |
26 August 2008
03:40 GMT |
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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 open... |
16 June 2008
09:57 GMT |
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The first week of June brought quite a few interesting facts from the Fedora world, like the complete migration of Fedora Project's website to MediaWiki, some info about Fedora Open Day 2008 and news about the development of Fedora 10 themes.At the end of May, Mike McGrath announced on the fedora-announce mailin... |
11 June 2008
03:01 GMT |
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Welcome to the Fedora Weekly Report! Last week came with a couple of interesting events from the Fedora world, such as the interview with Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader, the migration of Fedora Project's Wiki to a different platform, and a few security advisories for your favorite Linux distribution.On May ... |
26 May 2008
09:25 GMT |
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The 13th of May was a very important day for Fedora: on the same day, Fedora 9 was launched and the development of Fedora 10 has started. For example, the artwork team is trying to find a good theme to fit the release that will be available somewhere in October, this year.Until now, there are only five submissions fo... |
19 May 2008
19:06 GMT |
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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 B... |
19 May 2008
05:01 GMT |
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If you want a system complete with everything you might need - or not - and have a personal repository in the form of DVDs, then you should be glad to know that the Fedora 9 Everything Spin was released. The Everything Spin comes with every package and application that was available when Fedora 9 was released and eve... |
19 May 2008
03:50 GMT |
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As we're getting ready to welcome the new Fedora 9, let's have a look at what happened over this past week in the Fedora World. Max Spevack posted a reminder about the upcoming FUDCons and Jeroen van Meeuwen let us know that Fedora Unity has released Fedora 8 updated Re-Spin.The Re-Spin, announced by Jeroen... |
12 May 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Welcome to the Fedora Weekly Report! Here's what we have in stock for you: Fedora 7 reached the end of its life, the IA64 architecture received a Fedora 9 Beta release, a new Xfce SIG (Special Interest Group) was created and the nominations for the Fedora Project Board elections have started.Fedora 9 is the firs... |
5 May 2008
10:27 GMT |
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As newer distributions appear, older ones have to retire. This will happen with Fedora 7 on the so-called unlucky day of June 13, 2008 (one month after the release of Fedora 9). The end of life actually means that Fedora 7 users will not receive security/critical fixes and software updates anymore.Codenamed "Moonshin... |
2 May 2008
05:06 GMT |
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Welcome once more to the Fedora Weekly Report! This week, we have a change in the Fedora Board composition, a discussion about the Fedora Pre-Update and a few security advisories and updates for Fedora 7 and 8.The Fedora Board was formed two years ago, in 2006, and since then, the Fedora project has changed in many d... |
29 April 2008
18:36 GMT |
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If you are looking for a distribution that can simplify the installation of MythTV on a home theatre PC, then MythDora is for you. It is a Linux distribution based on Fedora 8 along with MythTV-0.21. The latest version, 5.0, is only a few days old and the developers consider it as the most feature rich, cleanest and... |
29 April 2008
06:21 GMT |
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With small steps, we're getting closer to the final release of Fedora 9, one of the most important Linux distributions at the moment. Although it was scheduled for the 29th of April, Fedora 9 will be actually launched on May 13, a decision taken by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo). But until the... |
21 April 2008
10:36 GMT |
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If you're anxious to see what Fedora 9 has in stock for you, you now have a cure for that itch in your fingers: Fedora 9 Preview was launched yesterday, as announced by Jesse Keating. Testers, developers and even curious normal users will be glad to get their hands on the fresh Preview, because it is very close ... |
18 April 2008
05:27 GMT |
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Although Fedora 9 is still under development, plans for Fedora 10 are being made. The Art Team is trying to create the theme for Fedora 10, and two concepts have been introduced: Gears and Blue Fire. Gears uses a steampunk aspect, with clocks, gears and, of course, steam-powered engines. Blue Fire is a simple theme, ... |
14 April 2008
09:16 GMT |
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Every week seems to be a challenging one to the Fedora community, just like the last week. Fedora Unity released an updated Fedora 8 Re-Spin, the old Fedora test releases were purged and the Fedora Ambassadors are discussing the budget for the events that will take place all over the globe, this year.Jesse Keating po... |
7 April 2008
09:09 GMT |
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Although Fedora 9 is nearing its launch, people keep making Re-Spins for Fedora 8. The Fedora Unity Project has launched new Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets).The Re-Spin ISOs are based on the official Fedora 8 installation media, with all the updates available since March 31st, this year. They are available for i386, x86_6... |
2 April 2008
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The week that has just passed brought us the first - and last - Beta of Fedora 9, some security advisories and a new way of contributing to the development of Fedora.In fedora-announce-list, Jesse Keating announced the launch of Fedora 9 Beta: "The Beta release is the point at which we really want and need the wider ... |
31 March 2008
08:44 GMT |
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After having been delayed for a few days, Fedora 9 Beta was released yesterday. This is the point when developers need a lot of participation from users who can get the distribution and test it out on their machines.The final release of Fedora 9 will look almost the same as the Beta, except for some fixes to increase... |
26 March 2008
06:51 GMT |
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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... |
24 March 2008
09:56 GMT |
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Another week passed by, but not in vain! Fedora BugZappers was relaunched, an online magazine called "Revista Fedora Brasil" was started by Brazilian Fedora Ambassadors and Linux community members and a few security advisories were created.Built on the success of the recent "gcc43 rebuild triage effort," the Fedora B... |
17 March 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Another week has just ended. It was a silent one, with only a few news and interesting facts from the Fedora world. Fedora 8 gets a few security advisories and Fedora 7 has... seven security advisories.Jon Stanley created a few Feedburner RSS feeds - actually three of them - to assist in bug triage. The three feeds s... |
10 March 2008
06:11 GMT |
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For the Fedora community, the week that has just passed brought a few interesting facts. For example, the new Fedora Project Leader wants to clear the path of obstacles for new volunteers who want to step into the Fedora world.A Fedora NPO has been founded at FOSDEM in Bruxelles, having Gerold Kassube as president, a... |
3 March 2008
08:28 GMT |
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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... |
25 February 2008
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Another week passed by, but with many good things happening in the Fedora world. A new Spin was born, the Fedora 8 Xfce Spin, making two categories of users happy: those who love Fedora and those who love the Xfce desktop environment. The third round for Fedora 9 Artwork has started, and the Fedora Ambassadors Wall w... |
18 February 2008
06:46 GMT |
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A brand-new, clean-looking Fedora 8 Xfce Spin has just been released. This is a bootable Fedora Live CD image, available for x86 and x86_64 architectures. The spin can be installed to hard disk or converted into boot USB images.If you are an Xfce fan, this is truly ideal for you. Also, this is very useful for Fedora ... |
13 February 2008
05:53 GMT |
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The Fedora 9 Alpha release - codename Sulphur - was launched last week, providing the first opportunity for a broader audience to become involved in the testing of Rawhide. John Babich reminded everyone that on 9 February, 1998, Bruce Perens published the Open Source Definition. This year would be the tenth since it... |
11 February 2008
06:53 GMT |
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This week, in the Fedora world, some interesting events have taken place. The Anaconda installer received some updates and the "Fedora win32 livecd-iso-to-usb" tool was born.Here are some of the bugs solved for Anaconda:In Fedora 7 we've got:￭ Bugzilla Bug 243159: Upgrade does not recognize existing insta... |
4 February 2008
11:24 GMT |
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After successfully deploying 13,000 Fedora Linux systems, the government from the Philippines is planning to provide another 10,000 Ubuntu-based computers.Ricardo Gonzales, independent open source consultant, said that there are several reasons why Linux was chosen over Windows. Linux became popular in Philippines af... |
30 January 2008
07:03 GMT |
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Another week passed by, but not without some interesting things happening in the Fedora world. The FUDCon Raleigh event has just ended yesterday. Let's take a look over the last week, and go through the most important aspects.At FUDCon, more than 150 persons attended and the event started with Max Spevack's... |
14 January 2008
04:54 GMT |
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2008 has just started and the Fedora community will step into the new year with FUDCon Raleigh, a three-day event that will span from the 11th to the 13th of January. FUDCon stands for Fedora User and Developer Conference. Actually, it will be an "unconference", because it will be held as a Bar Camp - an "unconferenc... |
7 January 2008
09:32 GMT |
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We've already had an Ubuntu Weekly Report and we thought we should take a shot with Fedora as well. So, here we are with the first issue of our weekly report! Read on and find out more about Fedora!Last week brought a lot of changes with it in the Fedora world. Let's see what exactly happened between 10th -... |
17 December 2007
10:26 GMT |
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As of December 7th, Fedora Core 6 no longer exists. The last release of the Fedora Project which saw the split between "Community" and Red Hat sponsored (Core) editions.The transformation in just Fedora - without the Core part - took place when the core packages ended up following the guidelines of the former "Extras... |
13 December 2007
10:08 GMT |
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BLAG 70000 (Sugarwater) was released two days ago, with Fedora 7 as its base and a huge number of applications, under the GNU GPL v3. BLAG is a completely free distribution with all the tools needed for a desktop computer and more.This Linux distribution comes on a single CD, it is very easy to install, being also us... |
14 November 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Although Fedora 8 just got released, the developers are thinking about the features which are going to be included in the next release, Fedora 9. There are no approved features yet, but the community is working on providing material for developers to choose from.Let's take a look at nine of the proposed features... |
13 November 2007
04:40 GMT |
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Linux gamers, welcome the Fedora Games Spin, the custom variant of Fedora made just for you! It was created with the goal of demonstrating the gaming potential of the afore-mentioned Linux distribution. At this moment, it is a Live DVD (in the future, the developers might create a Live CD also), but you can also inst... |
12 November 2007
04:41 GMT |
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A few minutes ago, the Fedora project team has released the third and last Test CD of the upcoming Fedora 8 Linux distribution. Test 3 features the following improvements over previous test releases:￭ Online Desktop provides a desktop experience designed around online services. A preview of Online Desktop is ... |
4 October 2007
11:15 GMT |
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A few minutes ago, the Fedora project team has released the second Alpha of the upcoming Fedora 8 Linux distribution. Test 2 features a 2.6.23 Linux kernel and the following improvements:￭ A brand new graphical firewall configuration tool, system-config-firewall replaces system-config-security level ￭ ... |
13 September 2007
11:06 GMT |
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A few minutes ago, the Fedora project team released the first Alpha of the upcoming Fedora 8 Linux distribution: "We interrupt your rawhide for a moment to make a small announcement. Fedora 8 Test one has been loosed upon the world today. Test 1 is for "alpha" users. This is the time when we would like to have full c... |
7 August 2007
10:59 GMT |
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Fedora is a very popular Linux-based operating system that includes all the bleeding-edge technologies. Fedora 7 was announced on the last day of May 2007 and it brings many new features and improvements over previous versions, which were entitled Fedora Core. Among the new features, we can notice that Fedora has n... |
19 June 2007
08:02 GMT |
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Yellow Dog Linux (or just YDL for short) is an open-source Linux distribution designed for the systems and platforms based on the Power Architecture (for example Apple Macintosh computers, IBM BladeCenter JS2x and Series p5 servers, Mercury XR9, Sony PlayStation 3 a.s.o) and it was first released in 1999 for the App... |
15 June 2007
06:13 GMT |
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There are only a few days until the 7th release of Fedora Linux distribution will be made available to general public, and I thought it would be nice to overview some of its highlights. While the development team behind the Fedora Project is working very hard to bring you the most exciting features and hottest techn... |
15 May 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a music player which allows remote access for playing music and managing playlists. Together with Icecast, it integrates perfectly within a 'headless'-type computer (without a monitor), allowing control and providing playback over a network or over the Internet. Basically, it al... |
17 April 2007
06:00 GMT |
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The third of four test releases of Fedora 7 has been announced on fedora announce mailing list by Jeremy Katz, one of Fedora's developers. This release includes significant new versions of many key components and technologies, as well as some new graphical improvements and small modifications. The new test versi... |
30 March 2007
05:45 GMT |
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