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Run Fedora on the PS3

Do you have a PlayStation 3? Are you looking for a fun hack? Why not put Fedora on your PS3. Engadget has a brief article with a video showing Fedora running on a PlayStation 3. Qj.net has install instructions for Fedora Core 5. Additional videos of FC5 running on the PS3 can be found on the PS3mods blog.

Disclaimer: your editor does not own a PS3 and is not likely to get one, so she has not tried this. These links were found on this post to fedora-devel and this this post to fedora-marketing.

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New Releases

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 Availability

Red Hat has announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 (kernel 2.6.18-1.2747.el5). "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been developed in close cooperation with the Fedora Core 6 and the upstream community. This is the first Red Hat Enterprise Linux release that includes Xen-based open source virtualization technology. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 release contains virtualization support on the x86 and x86-64 architectures as well as a technology preview of Xen for Itanium 2. We are particularly interested in your testing feedback on the virtualization technology."

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Distribution News

The DebianEdu OLPC effort, three first months

The DebianEdu team has been working with the KDE project, Skolelinux, mEDUXa, Edubuntu and others on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.

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Debian release update

Steve Langasek looks at the release status of Debian etch. Once scheduled for early December, it now looks like the etch release will be in late December. "With the installer candidate out and an initial draft of the release notes available, we can use some help now from intrepid users doing upgrade testing from sarge to etch."

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Call for help with the Debian FAQ (updates and review)

With the etch release growing ever closer it is time to improve documentation by helping to update The Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. Click below to see the call for help.

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DebConf7: registration and call for papers

Registration is open for DebConf7 as it the call for papers. DebConf7 is scheduled for June 17 - 23, 2007 in Edinburgh, UK.

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Fedora board meeting minutes

The Fedora Board met on November 20; the members inaugurated a new policy of posting real-time minutes over an IRC channel. The meeting log has now been posted. For those who get tired of side-to-side scrolling, a lightly reformatted version can be had by hitting the link below. Among other things, the meeting covered the proposed new 13-month support policy, whether Mono will stay in Fedora (looks like it probably will, for a while at least), and hinted at an upcoming "RPM announcement."

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FC6 downloads and installs

Max Spevack looks at some Fedora Core 6 statistics. "Today is the 24th day -- about 3.5 weeks -- since FC6 was released. Since release, we've been tracking the number of unique IP addresses that check in via yum for updates... A few minutes ago, we crossed over the 300,000 mark."

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IRC meeting about Novell/Microsoft deal

SUSE will be hosting an IRC meeting to discuss the Microsoft/Novell deal; people present will include Nat Friedman and Holger Dyroff. It is interesting, however, that they chose this Thursday, November 23 for the meeting. That is a major holiday in the US, so attendance by Americans is likely to be quite low.

Update: The meeting has been moved to the following Monday, November 27 to accommodate people in the US.

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SUSE Linux 9.2 security support is now discontinued.

Support for SUSE Linux 9.2 has been discontinued. SUSE Linux 9.2 was released in October 2004, so it has been supported for over 2 years. Click below for a summary of fixes.

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New Distributions

Linux Mint 2.0 "Barbara"

Linux Mint aims to produce an elegant, up to date and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop based on Ubuntu. Linux Mint is like a customized version of Ubuntu. It uses the same repositories and the same packages. It follows the Ubuntu releases and innovations. Basically, it is 98% Ubuntu, with a few differences, notably the default inclusion of patented or proprietary technologies for an easy-to-use desktop out of the box. DesktopLinux looks at Linux Mint 2.0 "Barbara", based on Ubuntu 6.10.

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Tempest Showroom

Tempest Showroom is a live CD showcasing Tempest for Eliza, a program that makes your computer monitor send out special radio signals so that you can then hear computer generated music in your radio.

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Distribution Newsletters

Fedora Weekly News Issue 67

The Fedora Weekly News for November 20, 2006 covers FC6 downloads and installs Stats, Fedora summit wrap-up, Back from the Fedora Summit, FACTFest 2006, Getting ready for VANLUG, SELinux: setroubleshootd in action, Yum Extender Next Generation and more.

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Ubuntu Weekly News

Issue 21 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter has been published. Topics include: Ubuntu Developer Summit Mountain View, gNewSense announced, KDE 4 packages available, New teams, Forging Feisty, Changes in Feisty, In the Press, Edgy reviews, Security and Updates to 6.10 and 6.06 and Bug stats.

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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 178

The DistroWatch Weekly for November 20, 2006 is out. "It was a relatively quiet week, only disturbed by the news about Java being released under the GPL and the unusual levels of interest in the new Linux Mint 2.0. This week's discussion revolves around adding third-party repositories to Ubuntu and other distributions; while the goal of extending the number of easily installable software packages sounds good, mindless addition of repositories can not only compromise system security, it can also break one's system beyond repair. Also in the news: Debian "etch" delays, Fedora 6 usage statistics, FreeBSD's new Security Event Auditing (SEA) system, and an opinion about including proprietary kernel modules in Linux distributions. Finally, the DistroWatch database saw an addition of four new Linux distributions last week; these include the low-end Fluxbuntu Linux and the user-friendly Ulteo."

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Package updates

Fedora updates

Updates for Fedora Core 6: system-config-network (bug fixes), kdepim (bug fixes), scim-anthy (new upstream release), shadow-utils (fix stack overflow), m17n-db (bug fixes), desktop-printing (bug fixes), subversion (update to 1.4.2), yum (bug fixes), pirut (bug fixes), nfs-utils (bug fix), logwatch (added more logs), parted (bug fix), beagle (bug fix), gconf2 (bug fix), boost (bug fix), gnome-applet-vm (sync with upstream), selinux-policy (bump for FC6), dogtail (new upstream release), util-linux (bug fixes), mesa (bug fix), xorg-x11-drv-i810 (i965-xv-hang-fix.patch), xorg-x11-drv-ati (update to 6.6.3), xorg-x11-server (bug fixes), virt-manager (update to 0.2.6).

Updates for Fedora Core 5: scim-anthy (new upstream release), m17n-db (bug fixes), desktop-printing (bug fixes), parted (bug fix), boost (bug fix), gconf2 (bug fix).

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rPath updates

Updates for rPath Linux 1: dovecot (correct permissions), anaconda, anaconda-utils, anaconda-templates, kernel (enhancements), system-config-display (depend on bitstream-vera-fonts package), dev86 (build for x86 and x86_64), xen (build for x86 and x86_64), rmake (bug fixes).

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Trustix updates

Updates for Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 & 3.0: imagemagick and php (various bug fixes).

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Ubuntu updates

Updates for Ubuntu 6.10: gimp 2.2.13-1ubuntu2, libgnomeprintui 2.12.1-4ubuntu1, gnome-games 1:2.16.1-0ubuntu2, vino 2.16.0-0ubuntu2.1, oprofile 0.9.2-1ubuntu0.1, kdebase 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu3.1.

Updates fro Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: gcl 2.6.7-14ubuntu1, lighttpd 1.4.11-3ubuntu3.1, speex 1.1.11.1-1ubuntu0.1, dpkg 1.13.11ubuntu7, hal 0.5.7-1ubuntu18.2.

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Miscellaneous Articles

Ubuntu Developer Summit report: Desktop plans, PowerPC's future, and community (Linux.com)

Linux.com continues UDS coverage with a look at plans for the Ubuntu and Kubuntu desktops, the future of PowerPC, and how Ubuntu is working with local community teams. "One of the things that makes Ubuntu so successful is the community that's formed around the distribution. Out of about 140 attendees for the summit, only 30 were employed by Canonical to work on Ubuntu. The rest were there because of personal or commercial interests in Ubuntu. Shuttleworth and company seem to have done a pretty good job of bridging the commercial and community divide, and community building and governance was a major topic at the summit."

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Jono Bacon (BehindUbuntu)

BehindUbuntu interviews Jono Bacon. "I am the Ubuntu Community Manager, and my role is to help keep the wheels of the community rolling. I am here to optimise how the community works, resolve problems, encourage new contributors, build up our teams, improve how teams talk together and more. I also work alongside the community, speaking at conferences and user groups, dealing with concerns, getting feedback and more. I am here to ensure the Ubuntu community is a world class example of free software community in action."

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Getting started with ParallelKnoppix, a live CD for clusters (Linux.com)

Linux.com has an excerpt from the book Linux Live CDs covering ParallelKnoppix. "The ParallelKnoppix CD comes with quite a bit of software that isn't necessarily related to clustering. You'll find a number of editors, multimedia applications, Internet applications, games, and a lot more. Games and whatnot probably won't be on your list of desired apps if you're actually being productive, but if you happen to have the PK disc with you and want to kill some time, you can always turn a boring old Windows machine into a Knoppix desktop for a while."

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Distribution reviews

Mandriva Linux 2007 ONE for home users (coulier.org)

coulier.org has a review of Mandriva Linux 2007 for home users. "What might a Linux distribution such as Mandriva Linux 2007 be to a Windows user? Is it a valuable alternative, or do you have to be a real computer nerd to risk the move? Why would an average PC user make the effort to change over to Linux? Admittedly, not necessarily everyone will benefit from such a move - but it could be a lot more interesting than you may suspect. Many discussions around this topic lead to considerable debate, and in this article we do not pretend to own the truth or to be complete. This article just sums up our own experiences after several years of use of both Microsoft Windows and Mandriva Linux."

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 beta 2 now available (Linux-Watch)

Linux-Watch takes a quick look at the second beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. "RHEL 5 incorporates new, fully integrated server and storage virtualization functionality. This release enables an integrated virtualization solution, by coupling server virtualization with Red Hat's clustering support. For enhanced availability, failover at either the application or virtual machine level is provided by Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System, and Cluster Logical Volume Manager. The technology allows application data to be securely accessed and shared by any guest from any system, Red Hat says."

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