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[Fedora-Ambassadors] Fedora 8 Announcement
2007-11-09 07:49:00
========================================= =============================Fedora 8 Anno uncement On this autumn period where the best fruits are ripe, it comes thetime to harvest the new Fedora release.This new Fedora is named “Werewolf”, but fear not, as this releasewill bring you all the safety and stability that you could dream of.The main point of this new version is without any doubt SIMPLICITY.After 5 months of intense work, and in order to provide you the latesttechnologies, this new release will be for you as for us a major evolution.The major new features are (among others): Codeina :Fedora by default does not provide non-Free codecs. This is sometime aproblem for the end users who had to install them on their own. Codeinais created for this purpose, which is to help you to install the required codecs to helps you to listen to your MP3 or watch your movies, in a simple, legal way.PulseAudio : Fedora 8 includes the latest generation of sound server, PulseAudio.PulseAudio offer...

Red Hat Legal Speaks on Linking to 3rd Party Website/Repositories
2007-11-08 12:03:00
A great announcement @ Fedora-Marketing-List todayfedora-marketing-list/2007-November/ msg00079.htmlMore to read here : http://lwn.net/Articles/257559Linking to "third party repositories": Legal says that we can link, fromthe Fedora website, to third party repositories, so long as no one hasmade a critical assessment to determine that a patent or patents coverthe technology in question and no party has actually asserted theirpatents against the technology, we should be okay. Once we are on noticeof a claim of infringement or are aware of a competent assessment thatconcludes infringement is likely, we would need to take the link down orrun a serious risk of facing a claim for inducing infringement. Merelylinking would be highly unlikely to subject us to a claim of directinfringement. I asked about MP3, and it was stated that unless we arespecifically aware of the MP3 patent holders asserting a claim againstthe technology, we are still okay.This means that we can put a page up on the ...
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HOWTO: Compiz Fusion in Fedora 8 'Werewolf'
2007-11-08 09:40:00
Fedora 8 'Werewolf' is just around the corner HERE!!. Lets get this started!CCSM should be in the updates repository already. If it havent, take it here　ccsm-0.6.0-3.fc8.noarch.rpmNOTE: This howto assumes that compiz is already able to run on you hardware. If not, you might google for howto for that first. For NVidia users, install the Livna repositories an yum for kmod-nvidia and reboot. For ATI users, if your card is older than Radeon 9600, it should work out-of-the-box, if not, you will need to wait until ATI releases a new driver for kernel 2.6.23 and yum for kmod-fglrx from Livna after it has been released. Intel user (like me) cheer to yourself as it works out-of-the-box.Compiz & Compiz Fusion in Fedora 8Fedora 8 includes Compiz 0.6.2 on its release. However, Compiz Fusion packages are not included together in the default installation due to several reasons (one of it was libcompizconfig, ccsm, compizconfig-python packages got approved quite late) . Nevertheless, Compi...
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Fédora, 8th November, and Victorien Sardou
2007-11-07 15:31:00
A fun stuff from Fedora-ambassadors-list today2007-November /msg00008.html8th November is the anniversary of the death of Victorien Sard ou, a French dramatist of which one of his plays, Princess Fédora, is the origin of the name of Fedora hat.Image from wikipediaAnother fun fact: Werewolf, the Fedora 8 release name, consist of 8 letters. Fedora 8- 8th November--- Anniversary of the death of Victorien_Sardou----- Writer of the play, Princess Fédora- Werewolf--- 8 letter release name
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MySpace?
2007-11-04 05:26:00
Just got myself a MySpace account. I'm not really a fond of Social Networking sites (except for LinkedIn and Mugshot) , but i'm curious bout the MySpace IM and what Mugshot offers for MySpace users. So, i simply created one account to play around with.Profile Page: http://www.myspace.com/kagesenshi_87.Add me if you wish. Just msg me @ MySpace telling me how u get the link to my profile so that i dont treat it as spam ..
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Ideas: Fedora AppDB
2007-10-29 01:06:00
This is just a post for me to jot down this idea before I forgot it.I'm currently exploring with TurboGears for a coursework project. Out of nowhere an idea came up about an application database for Fedora . Description as follow:Fedora Application DatabaseWhat it is? It is a web based application which contains description, screenshots and recommendations of applications from Fedora Package Collection. Use Case Bob is looking for some softwares to help out in his business. He browsed through pirut but could not decide on which application to use as the descriptions are vague and theres no preview about it. He open up his browser and goto the Fedora AppDB and browsed through the community-contributed descriptions and guides. Bob can now find what he wants. Bob is now happy. Nice features to haveScreenshotsPackage descriptionLinks to upstream webpagesComments/thread for the applicationsLeverage online-desktop's click-and-yum (not sure what it is really called) capabilityApplic...
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Werewolves Coming Near Us!!
2007-10-21 12:37:00
It might started its invasion from here. Then it raid into here. Just recently, its existence is confirmed!!. The creature is nearing our place!!, Sources said that it might reach us sooner than we can imagine and will cause a great Lycanthropy infestation under the moon. Transforming humans and gibbons into the Fearsome Beast of Moonshine. The Werewolf.Image taken from Mairin Duffy's post
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Fedora Live Update SIG Announced
2007-10-20 20:03:00
At last, a SIG that will be working on supporting Live upgrades on Fedora .http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs /LiveUpgradeAnno uncement @ Fedora-Devel-ListA toolbox suggestion for testers- a qemu image with a fully updated Fedora release N- a local mirror of rawhide of Fedora N + 1while is_testing_period: make_a_copy_of_the_qemu_image() yum_liveupgrade_to_Fedora_N_+_1() report_or_fix_bugs() sleep(1day) resync_rawhide_mirror():Plooking forward for this in F9
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Whats New , and Whats Old - A little comparison between Ubuntu 7.10 new fea
2007-10-20 06:52:00
Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' was just released a few days ago, and Fedora 8 just hit devel-freeze yesterday. With all the hype going all over the internet, one point annoys me - when some Ubuntu users claiming that some of the new features in Ubuntu are something Fedora does not have. Now, lets bust this myth. (This list might not be complete)Ubuntu 7.10 feature list was taken from : http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releaseno tes/710tourGNOME 2.20Both Fedora 8 and Ubuntu 7.10 uses GNOME 2.20. Compiz FusionBoth Fedora 8 and Ubuntu 7.10 have Compiz 0.6.0 during its release. However, in Fedora 8, compiz will not be enabled by default , as there are several issues which still need to be fixed in Fedora's point of view, one of it is the Xv video support - patches are being developed by Red Hat developers in fixing the the X server and Xv and apply it upstream. Compiz is enabled by default in Ubuntu - with a hack patch applied in mplayer to allow Xv rendered properly on Mplayer only.In Ubu...
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Fedora 8: Coming Soon
2007-10-08 03:31:00
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Review: A few days with Fedora 8 Test 2
2007-09-22 15:36:00
I just upgraded my laptop to F8T2 several days ago. Heres some of my experience of the journey. Like Moonshine (F7), Fedor a 8 Test 2 releases several ISOs to choose from. The classical DVD installer, a Desktop LiveCD, a KDE LiveCD, plus 2... [[ ... ]]
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Hunting for Internship
2007-09-20 23:56:00
I'm currently looking for internship placements around for my next semester. In my university, Internship / Industrial Training is a compulsory 14 credit hours subject - which will last for 8 months. I havent get any offers yet from companies which... [[ ... ]]
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31st August - Malaysia Independence Day Anniversary .. and TMnut blocked my
2007-08-31 17:33:00
(Flag img taken from Ditesh's post) Okay .. its 31st August again .. the anniversary of Malaysia independence from Great Britain .. and I'm at home for a holiday .. and guess what .. I noticed a shocking discovery .. The DARNED TMnut blocked my... [[ ... ]]
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Status of Compiz Fusion packages submission into Fedora
2007-08-26 05:02:00
I noticed Adel Gaddlah ( drago01 ) have submitted several compiz-fusion packages for review in BZ. He already pushed compiz-bcop into rawhide and in the process of getting the fusion plugins reviewed #253692 Review Request: compiz-fusion -... [[ ... ]]
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Getting Compiz Fusion into Fedora | UiTM iHack 2007 Result
2007-08-24 19:30:00
Getting Compiz Fusion into Fedora Progress compiz-bcop ( #247405 ) package passed review a around 2 weeks ago .. but i just noticed today that i need a sponsor to get that package into fedora .... err .... some help ??? .. i'm not familiar with the... [[ ... ]]
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Compiz Fusion 0.5.2 packages | UiTM iHack 2007 | Hakaze 2ch-Type Forum/BBS
2007-08-17 10:07:00
Compiz Fusion 0.5.2 Packages Its available in the main repo now .. both i386 and x86_64 packages .. a little sidenote about the packages : 1 primary thing .. its not compatible with compiz 0.5.2 package from rawhide due to the one on rawhide is... [[ ... ]]
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Compiz-Fusion just released official tarballs
2007-08-14 10:41:00
I just noticed something a few minutes ago .. Compiz Fusion have released their official tarballs!!!! http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/08/13 /compiz-fusion-our-first-release-052/ This is nice ... guess i'll skip doing homeworks for today and... [[ ... ]]
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A busy 2 weeks
2007-08-02 06:22:00
AAAA------(#-#)-----AAA!!!! new semester have started .. timetable clashes everywhere ... had to drop and add different set of subjects .. *sigh ..... and lectures have started giving project works on the first week .. (0.o) heck ... i want to... [[ ... ]]
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USB "Key" based authentication using pam_usb in Fedora
2007-07-21 03:08:00
What Is pam_usb? pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary USB Flash Drives. It works with any application supporting PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module), such as su, any login manager (GDM, KDM), etc. The pam_usb package... [[ ... ]]
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Wiki , Compiz fusion 20070716git, and package review
2007-07-17 19:06:00
It has been 2 weeks+ since I last post. Here goes Compiz Fusion 20070716git A little update on the compiz fusion packages: fusion-icon is now separated into 3 packages. fusion-icon, fusion-icon-gtk,fusion-icon-qt I have included in 20070716git... [[ ... ]]
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Update on Compiz Fusion repository 20070630git
2007-07-01 20:58:00
The repository have been updated to 20070630git packages Several changes in the RPM Packaging the metapackage that will pull all compiz bits is now known as compiz-all. compiz-core is renamed back to compiz. compiz-* packages no longer pulls... [[ ... ]]
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Low bandwidth : Repository Moved!!
2007-06-30 09:45:00
The domain kagesenshi.org (izhar) has reached 80% of its bandwidth limit (2434.04/3000.00 Megs). !! Do not respond to this message. Your reply will go nowhere. !! yikes!! repository will be has moved to... [[ ... ]]
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My Aztech DSL600EU just died
2007-06-28 15:50:00
A shocking thing happened yesterday morning , suddenly I couldnt connect to any sites and the router's lights remain static. Rebooting it and pushing the reset button doesnt help. After tens of times trying to get it back running, nothing seems to... [[ ... ]]
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Update on Compiz Fusion repository
2007-06-26 09:05:00
I have updated the repository just now. A few noticable changes are: package updated to 20070625 morning's git (I'm @ GMT +8 if that matters) compiz package is slow splitted into compiz-gnome and compiz-kde release numbering is changed to follow... [[ ... ]]
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Compiz Fusion repository for Fedora 7
2007-06-26 08:43:00
IMPORTANT NOTE TO 20070622git PACKAGES USER I have updated my packages to use a different release numbering. You will need to remove them manually before upgrading through yum, or it wont work. This is because the change in the release numbering... [[ ... ]]
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Compiz Fusion is here
2007-06-24 10:20:00
The merge of compiz and beryl have already created an offspring Introducing Compiz Fusion http://youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w If you want to try it out, follow this guide to compile it on your... [[ ... ]]
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Using Glade to write GUI applications
2007-06-21 22:08:00
A few useful links for people who want to learn on how to write GTK applications using Glade Python - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5 838951374743244232 Java - http://people.redhat.com/overholt/nativee clipse/index.html Ruby -... [[ ... ]]
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VMXGenerator.py : Python program to generate VMware configuration
2007-06-20 21:18:00
Ok, I'm bored during this holidays .. While surfing around and playing with Xen and VMWare, I stumbled upon this http://sanbarrow.com/vmxbuilder.html and saw a DOS Shell script to generate VMX. The crazy me took over, I started converting the... [[ ... ]]
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Setting up ADSL connection, the Fedora way
2007-06-18 15:30:00
Some users might not notice that Fedora have a very easy to use GUI for setting up ADSL and other network connections. The tool is integrated together with Fedora/RH system-config utility called system-config-network. This howto will show you how to... [[ ... ]]
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Running X applications headless using Xvfb
2007-06-16 21:44:00
Sometimes, you might want to run certain X applications as a daemon in the background. For example, in my case, I want to make Ktorrent run in the background on startup while I control the torrents using its WebUI. However, to run Ktorrent , I must... [[ ... ]]
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