http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:11:13 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/25315/Fedora_16_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25315/Fedora_16_Released/ "The following are major features for Fedora 16: enhanced cloud support including Aeolus Conductor, Condor Cloud, HekaFS, OpenStack and pacemaker-cloud; KDE Plasma workspaces 4.7; GNOME 3.2; a number of core system improvements including GRUB 2 and the removal of HAL; an updated libvirtd, trusted boot, guest inspection, virtual lock manager and a pvops based kernel for Xen all improve virtualization support." Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:45:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 63 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Hiev http://www.osnews.com/story/25289/Fedora_To_Simplify_Filesystem_Hierarchy_Move_Everything_to_usr/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25289/Fedora_To_Simplify_Filesystem_Hierarchy_Move_Everything_to_usr/ Good news from the Linux world. Fedora has announced its intention to drastically alter the file system layout of its Linux distribution. The plan's been out for a while, but was brought to my attention by Brian Proffitt (still the best name ever) over at ITWorld. The gist is to move all binaries to /usr/bin, and all libraries to /usr/lib and /user/lib64. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:17:41 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fedora Core 143 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25097/Fedora_16_Alpha_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25097/Fedora_16_Alpha_Released/ Fedora 16 Alpha is released today, featuring GNOME 3.1.4 with a unified input indicator for keyboard layouts and input methods, KDE 4.7, GRUB 2 on new installations (with GPT disk labels) and several other major changes. You can download it now. Remember to read the important information in the release notes and common bugs page. Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:10:19 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 64 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/24839/Fedora_16_To_Use_Btrfs_by_Default/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24839/Fedora_16_To_Use_Btrfs_by_Default/ "When it comes to adopting the newest technologies, Fedora is always at the front among the major Linux distributions. Well, Fedora might very well do it again by adopting a new file system for its next release. According to proposals for Fedora 16, Btrfs will be the default filesystem used in that release. The proposal has been approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. In Fedora 16, the switch from EXT4 to Btrfs will be a 'simple switch' - it means that major Btrfs features such as RAID and LVM capabilities will not be forced onto users." Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:20:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fedora Core 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Debjit http://www.osnews.com/story/24773/Fedora_15_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24773/Fedora_15_Released/ "After months of development, Fedora 15, codenamed "Lovelock" has finally been released today." Highlights of this release include restart-free firewall configuration, a switch to Gnome 3, LibreOffice, PowerTOP 2.x and systemd, "Consistent Network Device Naming", and... Rupee symbol support for Indian users. Tue, 24 May 2011 14:31:24 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hadrien Grasland) Fedora Core 20 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Debjit http://www.osnews.com/story/24363/First_Fedora_GNOME_3_Test_Day_Coming/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24363/First_Fedora_GNOME_3_Test_Day_Coming/ The first of three Fedora project GNOME 3 Test Days is taking place tomorrow (Thursday 2011-02-03) in #fedora-test-day on Freenode IRC. Join others and the GNOME development team to test out GNOME 3 and help make sure it's stable and polished. The testing is easy, can be done from a live image, so there's no need to have Fedora installed or to be a Fedora user, and you can help out with just ten minutes of your time. This blog post has more details on the event and how you can get involved. Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:22:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/24336/New_Linux_Network_Device_Naming_To_Be_Tested_by_Fedora/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24336/New_Linux_Network_Device_Naming_To_Be_Tested_by_Fedora/ Fedora is holding a Test Day tomorrow (2011-01-27) to test a new network device naming scheme, as implemented by the biosdevname utility provided by Dell. biosdevname aims to give network interfaces names that are both consistent and appropriate to their physical attributes (onboard device number, or PCI slot), an approach that has been kicked around upstream for a while. This new system will likely come to most distros in future. The Fedora test day will concentrate on making sure it behaves as intended on both new installations and upgrades. Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:10:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 13 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News AdamW http://www.osnews.com/story/24321/Fedora_Project_Investigates_Possible_Infrastructure_Compromise/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24321/Fedora_Project_Investigates_Possible_Infrastructure_Compromise/ "A security incident on Fedora infrastructure has been reported by Jared Smith, Fedora Project's leader, who confirmed that the account of one of its contributors has been compromised. According to preliminary results of an investigation mounted by Fedora Project's Infrastructure Team, the compromise wasn't the result of an exploitation [or] a vulnerability." Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:47:05 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hadrien Grasland) Fedora Core 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News HAL2001 http://www.osnews.com/story/24318/Fedora_15_Changing_NIC_Naming_Scheme/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24318/Fedora_15_Changing_NIC_Naming_Scheme/ "Fedora developer, Matt Domsch, has announced that Fedora 15 is breaking the conventional ethX naming scheme used for Ethernet devices by adopting a new scheme called Consistent Network Device Naming." Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:23:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hadrien Grasland) Fedora Core 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Debjit http://www.osnews.com/story/24048/Clarification_from_Fedora_on_the_SQLNinja_Decision/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24048/Clarification_from_Fedora_on_the_SQLNinja_Decision/ After a decision that got a lot of negative feedback, Jared K. Smith from the Fedora project gave some insight on why Fedora's board decided not to include SQLNinja in future builds. "As many of you are well aware, the Fedora Board made a decision not to include the SQLNinja package at our November 8th meeting. In the meantime, I've received quite a bit of feedback, and I'd like to take this opportunity to provide a bit of clarification on the Board's decision. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:17:58 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 4 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News fran http://www.osnews.com/story/24029/Fedora_To_Eventually_Move_to_Wayland_Too/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24029/Fedora_To_Eventually_Move_to_Wayland_Too/ Well, what do we have here? It turns out that Ubuntu isn't the only Linux distribution who took a left turn off the X.org highway, now driving on a road that will eventually lead to replacing X.org with Wayland. Fedora's 'graphics cabal', as they call themselves, have explained themselves on Fedora's devel mailing list. They also explain how network transparency can be added to Wayland in a number of different ways, making the mailing list thread intriguing reading material. Also, everybody happy with the headline? No panties in twists this time around...? Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:35:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fedora Core 80 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Debjit http://www.osnews.com/story/23989/Fedora_14_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23989/Fedora_14_Released/ Fedora 14 has been released. "The Fedora Project today announced the availability of Fedora 14, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. The Fedora Projects leads the advancement of free and open source software with a new distribution released approximately every six months." Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:49:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fedora Core 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/23846/Fedora_the_Tablet_OS_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23846/Fedora_the_Tablet_OS_/ The Fedora 14 Beta was released today, but as a Network World article points out, it "will be the first Red Hat supported distribution to let users choose MeeGo as their desktop." This new release will also include the Sugar interface, intended for netbooks, and "will also be the first version to fully incorporate Red Hat's VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), called SPICE, or Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments. SPICE will allow Fedora to host virtual desktops that can be accessed over a network." Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:58:58 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Fedora Core 26 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23352/Fedora_13_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23352/Fedora_13_Released/ It's Fedora release day! The Fedora project has pushed out version 13 of its cutting-edge Linux distribution. There's a whole boatload of improvements, some of which come from the wider Free software ecosystem, but of course, there's also a lot Fedora/Red Hat-specific stuff. Tue, 25 May 2010 15:44:32 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fedora Core 38 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Philipp Esselbach http://www.osnews.com/story/23318/Fedora_13_Delay_Fixes_Linux_GRUB_Bug/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23318/Fedora_13_Delay_Fixes_Linux_GRUB_Bug/ "No, Fedora 13 Linux is not coming out today. The release was pushed back by a week to fix a number of blocker bugs, among them is an interesting one that many users might simply consider to be just a papercut nuisance." Tue, 18 May 2010 21:35:58 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fedora Core 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News