Mailing List for Fedora Malaysia

Yay!, ticket #551 has been closed.

Announcing the fedora-my-list for Malaysia Fedora Users and Contributors. The link is below:

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-my-list

Feel free to communicate in Bahasa Malaysia or English (or Manglish, or "Rojak", or whatever) there :P.

BarCamp Malaysia 2008 : Open for registration

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kamal Fariz
Subject: [barcampmalaysia] BarCamp Malaysia Registration Is Now Open

Hey all,
We just opened the BarCamp Malaysia registration. Seats are limited to 150 people only, so hurry and sign up.

http://barcampmalaysia.eventbrite.com/

There are already a handful of sessions lined up for the two-day event. Check them out at http://barcamp.org/BarCampMalaysiaScheduleSessions. We look forward to more sessions, so do your part and propose more!


kamal

So, I've decided to go.

Hurm .. what should I help with eh..

Symbian going FOSS?

Noticed this from an aggregated post in Planet Fedora by Adam Jackson - Symbian Foundation.

The Symbian Foundation will provide, manage and unify the platform for its members. Also, it will commit to moving the platform to open source during the next two years, with the intent to use the Eclipse Public License.

Pressure from Google Android??. Change of heart??. Anyway, its still a good sign for FOSS world :)

Barcamp Malaysia

Lets help some promotion :P. (Though I'm still not sure whether I can attend or not)

What’s the story?

This July 26th, the Malaysian scene will EXPLODE into a orgy of mass-sharing and learning with the arrival of BarCampMalaysia.

If you’re into early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, open data formats, and connecting with like-minds, BarCampMalaysia will stroke you the right way.

Wanna feel the heat?

"Attendees must  give a demo, a session, or help with one. This is called sharing and we like it."

Damn right.

You can start by copying and pasting anything from what you’re reading, or from our wiki, onto your own blog.

Go forth and multiply!

What is BarCamp Malaysia?

BarCampMalaysia is an ad-hoc gathering packed with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. It’s inspired by BarCamps all over the world, born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment.

The focus is on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. But of course, you can only imagine what other random surprises are in store.

When and where is BarCamp Malaysia happening?

When
July 26-27, 2008
Saturday 10:00 AM-6:00PM (official section)
Hangout time 6pm to Sunday morning
Sunday 10:00 AM-2:00PM
Where
xTrain Sdn Bhd
Unit E-7-1, Block E
Megan Avenue 1
189 Jalan Tun Razak
50400 Kuala Lumpur
Google map - View

Wow this is mind-blowing! I want to know more!

Go to the wiki, read up, and add your name as a participant.

You can also

• Join our Facebook Group
• Get on the mailing list in our Google Groups
• See Schedule & proposed session ideas
• Help us out! Sponsorship Info
• Keep track of our Volunteer Meetup Notes
• Follow @barcampmalaysia on Twitter for latest updates
• Spread the word! BarCampMalaysiaPromotion

And remember to blog about this!

See you there!

To Fedorans who are at the Fedora User Developer Conference (FUDCon) Boston, enjoy ur BarCamp tomorrow. (I'm not there, its 13 timezones away >.< )

Complementary Repository CD ISO for "Sulphur" i686 LiveCD

I've been wanting to do this, several times since F7 but kept forgetting due to occupied with stuff. I have put together a complementary ISO containing a repository containing some Livna packages, OpenOffice, and a bunch of stuff which I guess might be useful to users. It is generated using the i686 LiveCD as the root for dependency checks, so, its dependency compatible with the official i686 LiveCD. I'm not sure how beneficial this ISO will be. But I guess it can help our users who does not have big bandwidth to grab certain stuff. Also helps for people who want a kindof-complete desktop environment without being online to grab from stuff from the repos.

Here's the torrent
- SulphurComplementary-i386-20080515.iso.torrent.
I'm the only one seeding it, so, seeding help is really appreciated.


===================================
"Sulphur" LiveCD Complementary ISO
===================================

Introduction
-----------------

''What is this CD?''

Nothing much than just a complementary repository for
the Fedora 9 "Sulphur" LiveCD. It contains several
additional packages which complements the LiveCD
packages, which includes stuff from Livna/RPMFusion.
Therefore, this is _NOT_ US Legal safe.

Using it
---------

It was best to use this with system-cdinstall-helper.
However, the replace of Pirut with PackageKit removed
that tool altogether.

Theres several ways to use this:

0) mount this ISO somewhere. eg: /mnt/sulphur-complementary

1) Use yum-tmprepo. (prefered)
- Theres an rpm called yum-tmprepo in the packages folder
- Install it using:

rpm -ivh yum-tmprepo\*

- Use yum with --tmprepo parameter to yum from this CD

yum --tmprepo=/mnt/sulphur-complementary/ install

2) Add as a repository (works with GUI tools)
- create a config in /etc/yum.repos.d/sulphur-complementary.repo
with this content:

[sulphur-complementary]
name=Sulphur complementary CD
baseurl=file:///mnt/sulphur-complementary/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0

- use as usual like you would with normal repositories

3) Just install everything in one blow

- If you are lazy and want everything:

cd /mnt/sulphur-complementary/packages
rpm -ivh *.rpm


====================
Have Fun ~ (^-^)
====================


If you want to generate something similar like this ISO on your own, here's the trick:

-> Grab a fedora installation
-> copy our its /var/lib/rpm directory
-> put it in a computer which have internet
-> create an temporary dir
-> paste /var/lib/rpm dir to tmpdir/var/lib/rom
-> yumdownloader --installroot=/full/path/to/tmpdir/ --resolve packageA packageB packageC ...
-> createrepo -d .

and u basically get this a dir with a bunch of rpms for a repo. Maybe case some of you might have noticed, I　got this trick from Debarashi's OPYUM's prototype. Have been playing with this trick quite some time as I found it useful to help gather new users in the restrictive/bad service network of my university.


P/S: One of the stuff that I wish F10 will have is the revival of the Add-on CD section on Anaconda/Firstboot. So that more of this produced in the future ^-^.

Update: Urgh .. this is what happen when I do stuff on 2AM .. Those who downloaded the torrent before, please redownload the torrent .. I put a wrong tracker URL .. Or, you can also change it yourself to http://tracker.prq.to/announce ..

Its out!! Its out!!!! Fedora 9 "Sulphur" Is OUT!!!!!!!!!!

With this announcement, its now official!!!. Fedora 9 "Sulphur" has been released!!!

The Release Summary describes very well on whats the latest and greatest OSS technologies offered by this release of Fedora.

Grab it NOW while its still hot!. However, for those who have fallen slave to the proprietary NVidia/ATi drivers, grab it now only if you are brave - because your vendor could not catch up with the latest and greatest of OSS.

With Fedora 9 released, Fedora 10 have started rolling, and the cycle of innovation and creation begins again!.

For those who are upgrading from Fedora 7 or Fedora 8, give PreUpgrade a try!. It allows an almost-live upgrade from your old Fedora release to Fedora 9!!. RPMs for preupgrade with F9 listed as an option are available / pointed here.

Congratulations and kudos to all Fedora Contributors. Have fun and keep hacking!!!! (^-^)

Hooray to Fedora 9!

Paul W. Frields, the Fedora Project leader's words on Fedora 9 release:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-May/msg00006.html

LiveUSB, PackageKit, PolicyKit, FreeIPA, easy partition resizing, one-click encryption, RandR support and a faster X, TeXLive, Firefox 3, GVFS, ext4, GCC 4.3, and so much more.... There are far too many improvements to list them all, but certainly even to the naked eye there are worlds of difference between our present and our past -- and the change is overwhelmingly for the better! Go check out the full list at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList on the wiki.

All of this work is done with our constant, unwavering commitment to upstream -- making sure that the Fedora Project always donates back to the source from which we draw. When we find opportunities for improvement, we share that with our upstream contributors to make sure that all open source participants benefit.

By being good citizens of the free and open source software community, we ensure the health and progression of thousands of projects that make the Fedora distribution a vehicle for advancing freedom. You can read more about this philosophy at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream on the Fedora wiki.

And always, we continue to use our own work for everything we do. We push the improvements and results out as 100% free and open source, available for everyone to use, poke, prod, and build upon.

That's why Fedora is so much more than a Linux distribution. It's a mindset -- "Doing The Right Thing," as we like to say. Giving credit where credit is due, and working hand-in-hand with others, but not being afraid to stand apart when doing otherwise means sacrificing hard-won ground.

But most importantly, Fedora is a community, where people come together for a common good -- making it possible for every human being, everywhere to have the same access to information, communication, standards, and knowledge.

A great speech indeed. Hooray to Fedora9!! Kudos to all Fedora contributors!! To rawhide addicts, Fedora 10 rawhide will be branched soon!.

Want to be a part of this great community of Fedora Project? Join Us Now!!

Shakugan No Shana Season 1 : @ NTV7!?

Looks like NTV7 just started showing one of my all time favourite anime! .. Shakugan No Shana!!!!. I noticed it just now, when they air the first episode. And guess what, it remains in Japanese, which ROCKS!!

So, Saturdays: 12:30pm, Malaysian anime lovers get the chance to see Shana in action, on Malaysian TV!. I have the whole 2 seasons (season 2 just ended a few weeks ago) in my anime collection, but I guess I'll still watch the TV version (although, undoubtedly, it might have some parts cut).

First Trinity Blood, then Jigoku Shoujo, and now , SHANA!!!!!!. And all of them broadcasted in the original Japanese language, which preserve the beauty of the original seiyuu, the sound effects, and most important, the moe-ness!!.

Go NTV7!!!!

And the results are ....

Malaysian Election 2008 result is out.

Barisan National got their ass seriously kicked!!.

They won simple majority at Parliament, and loses a bunch of states. DAP leading bigtime with Penang and Selangor seats majorly won by them.

With this result, lets see in this coming years, will BN will start fixing themselves? Will the Oppositions start seeing the real economics condition of Malaysia from the eyes of Parliament? How this will affect the stability of Malaysia? Can BN be able to find what's wrong with their organization? Can the Oppositions deliver their promises? Will the hidden voice within BN will raise and start reforming the party?

Will Change happens? to the better? or to the worse?

Let the coming years be the benchmark.

Fedora T-Shirt

A comrade of mine, ShahrimanSamsudin (Yondie), just signed the Fedora CLA and registered himself as the 4th Malaysian Fedora Ambassador. A big welcome for him. I hope this will encourage him more into contributing more to FedoraProject and help spreading Fedora and FOSS in Malaysia. I know I can't do this myself, as I'm more of a technical guy than a people-person. Hanafiah frequently MIA, Sharuzzaman with his translation projects.

Look what he got for us, also posted at his blog here: http://rumble.yondie.org/2008/03/fedora-shirts-anyone.html













For Malaysian readers of my blog, he is taking orders for those shirts. However, we are not sure about what the price to put yet. You can contact him about the T-Shirt through his blog or get his contact details here.

Fedora-MY, slowly trying to gain momentum. Hanafiah, where are you?? Sharuzzaman, hey, be on IRC once a while will ya? :P.

I will keep on advocating for users and trying to recruit more contributors from Malaysia.

Calling all Malaysian Fedora users and contributors

Fedora presence in Malaysia is quite hidden from the general public. Fedora users in Malaysia are everywhere, but hard to find due to most of them being in their own, secluded, microcommunity. A number of small companies, government offices, organizations, have Fedora deployments in them with their own group of users, but they are hard to notice.

Me and my comrades have just created and registered a channel in Freenode.net for our own Malaysian community. Come and join us at #fedora-my @ irc.freenode.net.

We are also planning for a site for Fedora Malaysia in http://fedora.foss.org.my/ but our capacity is limited as all of us are quite busy with out current job. Yes, we are looking for more hands to help making this a reality.

We are quite related to #MyOSS and Ubuntu-My usergroup. Together with FOSS-SM, we work together to spread FOSS love in Malaysia.

All Fedora and Fedora derivatives (RHEL, CentOS, Blag, etc) users are welcomed. I'll be waiting for you. ^-^

local root exploit in the wild!!!

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-February/msg01215.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432229

Affected kernels: 2.6.17 till 2.6.24

I tried it on my boxes, and heres the result

Hoshino
Release: Werewolf
SELinux: Enforcing
Result : R00TED!

[kagesenshi@Hoshino tmp]$ ./a.out
-----------------------------------
Linux vmsplice Local Root Exploit
By qaaz
-----------------------------------
[+] mmap: 0x0 .. 0x1000
[+] page: 0x0
[+] page: 0x20
[+] mmap: 0x4000 .. 0x5000
[+] page: 0x4000
[+] page: 0x4020
[+] mmap: 0x1000 .. 0x2000
[+] page: 0x1000
[+] mmap: 0xb7f95000 .. 0xb7fc7000
[+] root
[root@Hoshino tmp]# uname -a
Linux Hoshino.KageSenshi.Org 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:49:59 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux



Hikari
Release: Rawhide
SELinux: Permissive
Result : Safe (I think)

[izhar@hikari tmp]$ ./a.out
-----------------------------------
Linux vmsplice Local Root Exploit
By qaaz
-----------------------------------
[+] mmap: 0x0 .. 0x1000
[+] page: 0x0
[+] page: 0x20
[+] mmap: 0x4000 .. 0x5000
[+] page: 0x4000
[+] page: 0x4020
[+] mmap: 0x1000 .. 0x2000
[+] page: 0x1000
[+] mmap: 0xb7f61000 .. 0xb7f93000
Segmentation fault
[izhar@hikari tmp]$ uname -a
Linux hikari.kagesenshi.org 2.6.24-23.fc9 #1 SMP Wed Feb 6 11:36:31 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


I just refreshed the bugzilla page, and it seems like fixes are on the way to all F7, F8, Rawhide users.

Comment #9 From Mark J. Cox (Security Response Team) on 2008-02-10 16:05 EST

So to fix this you need 2.6.24.1 +
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=712a30e63c8066ed84385b12edbfb804f49cbc44

or if backporting, an earlier kernel plus both
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8811930dc74a503415b35c4a79d14fb0b408a361
and
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=712a30e63c8066ed84385b12edbfb804f49cbc44

Comment #10 From Chuck Ebbert on 2008-02-10 22:26 EST

Fixed in:

kernel-2.6.24.1-28.fc9
kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8
kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7

Great and Thanks!!!. Those who are hosting a multiuser system, update your kernels now!.

Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alpha

Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alpha is out for developers, early adopters, and those who can't stand to wait.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-February/msg00072.html



http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

* Support for resizing ext2,ext3 and NTFS partitions during installation
* Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems
* Faster and more efficient yum dependency resolver
* PackageKit
* FreeIPA, an integrated solution combining Linux, Fedora Directory Server, FreeRADIUS, MIT Kerberos, NTP, DNS and providing web and commandline provisioning and administration tools.
* GNOME 2.21 Development Release
* KDE 4.0
* Firefox 3 'Minefield' (nightly builds)
* Kernel 2.6.24
* ... And Many More~ ...

Rel notes:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes

Test status are being tracked here :
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/9/AlphaTreeTesting

Tunnel.UTPchat.Net is now back operational for Jan2008 semester

Its official now, the external server of UTPChat LAN IRC network is now back operational. Those who are not within UTP can now access UTPChat through it. It will be serving until the next UTP semester break. You can connect to the server by using this command on ur IRC client

/server tunnel.utpchat.net

This server is located at my home, so, please do not expect high stability from it. Especially on the UTP-network<->tunnel.utpchat.net link. As y'all might have known , UTP network and internet connection sucks. :P

Anyway, enjoy~

Edit: btw, if you are experiencing connection problems on port 6667, try 6668 or 6669. Somehow whenever 10 people connected , the others will get tcp connection refused. I'm guessing this is either something wrong with my router, or its our "beloved" TMNET have done something fishy on upstream routers/squids.

Micropolis-Activity RPM

Following the post I've made about the MicropolisCore package, I've packaged micropolis-activity.

The package was applied a patchset by Miriam Ruiz which was acquired from debian's svn:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-games/packages/trunk/micropolis-activity/debian/patches/. (Thanks to Rahul Sundaram for notifying me about this).

The (S)RPMS are here http://izhar.fedorapeople.org/micropolis-activity/ (again, WARNING: Hackish Package!)

The game is running but i didn't test it much. There are some segfaults when loading certain maps. The dependency list might also not be complete. Here a screenie of it running a saved city from the the source tarball.



Happy hacking. ^-^

Original SimCity GPL'ed as Micropolis - here some RPMs for Fedora Hackers

Around 19:00MYT (11:00GMT) today @ #fedora irc.freenode.net


<evil_steve> oh come on. THey GPL'd Sim city 48 hours ago and it's *not* packaged and in repos yet?
<evil_steve> :)
<evil_steve> and we call ourselves geeks
<KageSenshi> aah?!!
<KageSenshi> yay to gaming!
* KageSenshi now waits for simcity4k to GPL ..
<evil_steve> http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2008/01/10/simcity-source-code-released-to-the-wild-let-the-ports-begin.aspx
<KageSenshi> >.<
* KageSenshi tries to build
<evil_steve> KageSenshi: let me know how you go.
<KageSenshi> :D


Yay to Free/OpenSource Softwares!!. The original SimCity is now GPLv3+!. From the way it looks, I believe it was released to make it as an Activity for the OLPC XO. Nevertheless, it can be compiled and run at our normal desktop linux.

From the guide on the link above ( which for building on VisualStudio (O.o)" ) .. Here are the RPM packages http://izhar.fedorapeople.org/MicropoliceCore/.

UGLY PACKAGE ALERT!: The original tarball have some hardcoded paths and no proper automated script for installation, so I patched it with my own HACKISH patch and a HACKISH %install to make it packageable. And the launcher is a very HACKISH launcher.

Dont expect its playable though. I couldn't find how to run it as a game - and the Visual Studio based guide is also not yet complete, so, I totally have no clue. If anybody succeeded, can you tell me how?

You can launch the demo run using
/usr/bin/MicropoliceCore-launcer

The original project site is at http://www.donhopkins.com/home/micropolis/. There, you grab the sources for the OLPC XO version of Micropolis if you want.

Happy hacking.

Hello Planet Fedora!!

My blog just included in Planet Fedora. Yay! (/me jumping with joy). Thanks Seth Vidal!!.

A little introduction about myself and Linux.

I started with computers on early age. My first encounter with computers was @ my mom's office (she's working @ NEC that time) about I'm 3 years old. When my mom stopped working to be a full-time housewife, my dad started working @ IBM and I've been living with IBM PC-DOS on the company-provided PC. I lived with it and having fun with DOS for quite a long time. Then, on 1997, my dad bought an IBM Aptiva with Win95 on it, during that time, Windows doesnt feel that sux too me, as its still something on top of DOS (guess what, it took me some time to get use to the mouse and I still reboot to DOS when I want to play Command and Conquer). But after winME, I got frustrated due to no longer able to troubleshoot my computer through DOS, and thats when I started considering for another OS. I have no access to the Internet until 1999, so I have no idea about open source, internet community and stuff back then. Software to me that time was only those that can be found from shops.

Around 2002, I heard about Linux and started by trying out Red Hat 9 (Shrike), it was a tough ride at first, especially due to Winmodem sucks big time. On 2003, I stopped trying for a while due to I was accepted to a boarding school. But I didnt stop fully, there, I familiarize myself with OpenOffice (secretly installed on the school's computer). And on end of 2004, after I finished the final exam of high school, I forces myself to fully migrate to Linux.

I was looking for RH that time but couldn't found any later release after Shrike (I didn't know about FedoraProject yet). Then I found Mandriva and sticks with it & KDE for almost year before I decided to jump distros again. Then I used SuSE for few months , then I found out that RH is now Fedora Core. I started using Fedora Core 3 and have fell in love with it ever since.

Around 2005, I got to know a group of OSS oriented people in Malaysia @ #myoss of Freenode and around that time too I started trying to contribute back something upstream. I joined Fedora Project early 2007 as an Ambassador, mostly advocating Linux to students and lecturers my university - PETRONAS University of Technology. But lately theres not many ideas for me to do there as Ambassador so I started contributing to Packaging and packaged some unofficial compiz fusion packages. Now I'm officially maintaining ccsm and libcompizconfig packages in Fedora.

Right now I'm a SysAdmin intern at a startup company that focuses on Zope and Plone called Inigo-Tech and having some fun with FreeBSD there.

Looking forward for great development on Fedora and I hope I can found something more to contribute back to Fedora Project.

Firefox3 Beta2 Release

I woke up today with a Firefox popup on my desktop, notifying that my firefox is now upgraded to Firefox 3 Beta 2. Note that I install firefox beta in my home folder, so, automatic update JustWorks(tm)

See whats new here : http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b2/whatsnew/

What noticable is, at last, the visual refresh for Linux is here!!



And the new addressbar is cool.

[Fedora-Ambassadors] Fedora 8 Announcement

======================================================================
Fedora 8 Announcement

On this autumn period where the best fruits are ripe, it comes the
time to harvest the new Fedora release.

This new Fedora is named “Werewolf”, but fear not, as this release
will 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 latest
technologies, 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 a
problem for the end users who had to install them on their own. Codeina
is 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 offers you more control over your sound system, like
per-application volume control, output redirection and networked sound
server. This new technology also opened a gate to new functionalities
like automatic volume adjustments and other great and fun features.
PulseAudio: Compiz for your ears.

System-config-firewall & System-config-selinux :
Fedora 8 improved system-config-securitylevel by separating firewall and
selinux configuration utility and adding more functionalities into it. This
new interface is much more accessible for the new Fedora users. It is a very
intuitive interface thanks to its step by step configuration.

System-config-printer :
The printer configuration system has also been improved. The new
system-config-printer package will now create automatically the
printing queue, this was the step where so much users has failed on the past.

NetworkManager 0.7 :
NetworkManager have been entirely rewritten in order to satisfy
to the wired and wireless network, giving a higher speed of connection
and a better integration (thanks among other to the Dbus API and the WPA
for the wireless).

Better laptop support :
Thanks to the information returned by “smolt” the Fedora team has
improved the management of the Suspend to Ram and Suspend to Disk
system, and the recognition of the multimedia keys on the keyboard.

Package management :
Pirut (a GUI for yum, the package manager) has been updated in order to
meet the users' demand. It is now able to manage directly the
repositories from this GUI, simplifying a lot the work of new users.

Fedora 8's theme :
For each new Fedora release, a new theme is created. For Fedora 8, the
icons, the windows' border have also been changed to fit the theme. This
project is named “Nodoka”.
The desktop background is named “Infinity”. You could say, “yes, well it
is just a new desktop background”, but you are wrong. The "Infinity" background
uses a new XML based background animation feature. The background changes over
the day, from blue during sunrise, to a softer blue in the afternoon,
relaxing purple during sunset, and to a dark blue at night.

Virtualization :
Virtualization is an important technology of which more and more people
started using it. In this new release, Virtualization in Fedora has also
been improved. Libvirt is now capable of remote administration and it is
now more secure as a new library allow you to use SSL/TLS protocol to secure
your access. Another improvement is on the the graphical interface of virt-manager,
which is more user friendly while providing the latest functionalities.

IcedTea :
Fedora 8 strives to provide you 100% Free software for your usage. In this new release, Fedora
integrates IcedTea, which is an derivation from Sun's OpenJDK but without the proprietary bits.

FEL (Fedora Electronic Lab) :
This new Fedora spin is created by the "Embedded" Special Interest Group
(SIGs/Embedded) of FedoraProject. This project try to bring as much
VLSI and other Electronic related tools into Fedora. Electronic enthusiast, lecturers,
and Electronic students are encouraged to try this out.

Eclipse 3.3 :
For the developers, we did not forget that the latest version of eclipse
3.3 is available for Fedora. This new version provides a lot of new
functions:
JDT : for Java development.
CDT : Editor, builder and debugger for C and C++.
Autotools : plugin for CDT to support autoconf, and automake (among others).
Mylyn : first interface that allows the developers to request the
Bugzilla's database.
PHPEclipse : plugin for PHP development of test.
Specfile editor : plugin for the SpecFiles for RPM creation.
PyDev : plugin for Python

...

To download this new release, visit page :
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

Interested to be a Fedora contributor?. Visit this page:
http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora

The Fedora ambassador, from the FedoraProject.