Fedora 19 for IBM System z 64bit official release
by Dan Horák
Hello everyone,
Fedora 19 GA release for the IBM System z is here. This time two weeks
later than the primary mainly because me being on vacation. It's hard
for me to take time off work when there are always some deadlines in
sight :-) And again we are closer to primary when we count the number
of available packages.
Worth noting also here is that Anaconda, the Fedora installation
program, has been extensively redesigned since Fedora 17. Documentation
is available in the Installation Guide
(http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ch-...)
and is generally applicable to Fedora for System z.
The links to the actual release are here:
http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/19/Fedor...
http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/19/Every...
and obviously on all sites that mirror the secondary arch content and we
still have few :-)
The first directory contains the normal installation trees as well as
one DVD ISO with the complete release.
Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :)
Additional information about known issues, the current progress and
state for future release, where and how the team can be reached and just
anything else Fedora on IBM System z related can be found here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x/19
For architecture specific release notes, please read it as there are
changes in the interactive installation process. It's a wiki so don't
hesitate to add your knowledge there.
More information about Fedora on IBM System z can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x
Thanks go out to everyone involved in making this happen!
Your Fedora/s390x Maintainers
--
Dan Horák, RHCE
Senior Software Engineer, BaseOS
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99, 612 45 Brno
10 years, 10 months
The Fedora Project community mourns the loss of Seth Vidal
by Robyn Bergeron
The Fedora Project has lost a valued, longtime member of its community. Seth Vidal died last night, July 8.
Seth was a lead developer of yum and the update repository system, and a contributor to the CentOS project as well as the original Fedora Extras system. He worked tirelessly on the infrastructure for the Fedora Project to make all systems work well and consistently for our contributors around the world. He was a gifted speaker, a brilliant thinker, a clever wit, a humble and genuinely funny person, and a good friend.
The Fedora community owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Seth's dedication to Fedora and other free software projects, his commitment to community values, and his passion for excellence in his work. To say he will be missed is an understatement. He has been a colleague, a team member, a source of wisdom and advice, and above all, a friend and inspiration to countless people in the Fedora community over the past decade. His seminal and invaluable work in Fedora and free software will live on for years to come, and the legacy of his spirit will stay with the community, and with many of us individually, forever.
Our thoughts are with his partner Eunice, the rest of his family, and Seth's many friends and coworkers.
I know that many members of the Fedora community will want to personally share their condolences. We'll provide further information as soon as it is available.
Robyn Bergeron
Fedora Project Leader
10 years, 10 months
Fedora Security SIG Update
by Eric Christensen
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The Fedora Security SIG is coming back with a new mission and new momentum. Previously the Security SIG concentrated on security responses to vulnerabilities and answered questions from the Fedora community. While this service isn't going away we will be adding two new functions: secure coding education and code audit services.
Our secure coding mission is primarily educational. Writing software is really hard, writing secure software is even harder. There's no way any software will ever be written without bugs, but we can try to avoid some of the most common mistakes. Our first steps are to document the common causes for security vulnerabilities in software and provide information on preventing these vulnerabilities from happening. Red Hat has started to track a subset of security flaws using Common Weakness Enumaration (CWE) IDs, this needs to be expanded to cover Fedora security bugs. We also have a secure coding guide, the Defensive Coding Guide[0], that is in the works, along with additional documentation.
For code audits, we're really not sure where to start. We want to involve the community in this project, but honestly, we're not totally sure what that means. In the short term we expect to just be more transparent about what sort of work Red Hat is doing in this area and try to make public whatever information we can about code audits; this can be sensitive obviously. If contributors have ideas, or want to help, please join the discussion. This project is expected to evolve substantially over the next few months.
As everyone knows, security is a big deal and keeps getting more important every day. Historically Fedora has done a fantastic job with security, one of the reasons the previous SIG never really took off is because there was no need, Fedora was mostly secure and didn't need fixing. While Fedora ils still secure, there is a lot of opportunity to help. The nature of security is changing very rapidly, technologies like mobile and cloud are changing everything. Rather than sit by and let this happen, we believe Fedora should be out in front, working with the community to ensure open source remains the most secure solutions available.
But don't let what has been said so far become a limit on what can be done. I'd love to start working providing OVAL data, security bulletins, consult when questions arise and more. If you have ideas please join up and lets start working!
You can find us on Freenode IRC in #fedora-security, on our mailing list[1], and in our GIT repository[2].
We look forward to your help.
[0] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Security_Team//html/Defensive...
[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/security
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/secure-coding/
- -- Eric
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Eric "Sparks" Christensen
Fedora Project - Red Hat
sparks(a)redhat.com - sparks(a)fedoraproject.org
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10 years, 10 months
Amateur (Ham) Radio license exams available at Flock 2013
by Nick Bebout
The Fedora Amateur Radio SIG will be hosting a Ham Radio VE Session at
Flock 2013 (at the College of Charleston) on Saturday, August 10, 2013
from 2:00pm-4:00pm in room ECTR 115. Please arrive promptly at 2:00pm
if possible, we must be out of that room by 4:00pm, as another
talk/hackfest will be starting then.
We will be administering all classes of amateur radio license exams,
Technician, General, and Amateur Extra. Please bring your FRN with you,
or register at http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls if you do not have a license
already. You will also need a photo ID. There is also a fee of $15.00
which goes to the ARRL. You can pay this via cash or check.
If you have any questions, please email us at
ham-radio-exams(a)fedoraproject.org
We also ask that anyone interested in taking any exams please email us
at ham-radio-exams(a)fedoraproject.org to let us know you plan on coming,
but this is not strictly required.
Nick W9NB
--
Nick Bebout
Fedora Project
nb(a)fedoraproject.org
10 years, 10 months
Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 19 / x86_64 and i386
by Ben Liblit
The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora
19 on both x86_64 (64-bit) and i386 (32-bit) platforms. We currently
offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, Gnumeric, Liferea,
Nautilus, Pidgin, and Rhythmbox. Download and install
<http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora/19/tools/x86_64/cbi-...>
or
<http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora/19/tools/i386/cbi-pa...>
to automatically configure your system to use the CBI repository. Or
visit <http://research.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/> to learn more about this project.
It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of
you there are, the more bugs we can find.
We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the
way back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 19,
we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable
even on older distributions.
-- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy
10 years, 10 months
Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for Power
by Phil Knirsch
The Fedora Secondary Arch Team for Power is delighted to announce the
release of Fedora 19 ("Schrödinger's Cat") for Power architecture. Open
the box and take a look for yourself!
Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that
continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new
release about every six months.
Download it now:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#2nd_arches
Detailed information about this release on Power can be seen in the
release notes:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC/F19_release_announce...
For the general release notes for this release take a look here:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/
** What's New in Fedora 19 for Power? **
* The new LLVMPipe rendering engine is now fully functional and enabled
by default. This greatly speeds up graphics rendering on systems with no
3D graphics drivers or working with VNC sessions.
A complete list with details of each new feature is available here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/FeatureList
*** Downloads, upgrades, documentation, and common bugs ***
Start by downloading Fedora 19:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#2nd_arches
If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading
Fedora now includes FedUp in order to enable an easy upgrade to Fedora 19.
*** Documentation ***
Read the full release notes for Fedora 19, guides for several languages,
and learn about known bugs and how to report new ones:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Because of the number of changes to the installer, we particularly
suggest taking a peek at the Installation Guide:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ind...
Fedora 19 common bugs are documented at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F19_bugs
This page includes information on several known bugs in the installer,
so we recommend reading it before installing Fedora 19.
*** Contributing ***
We can't build Fedora inside a box. We need your help! Bug reports are
especially helpful--if you encounter any issues, please report them!
Fedora is a fantastic, friendly community, and we have many ways in
which you can contribute, including documentation, marketing, design,
QA, and development.
To learn how to help us, visit:
http://join.fedoraproject.org/
*** Fedora 20 ***
Fedora 20 has been in active development for several months already. We
plan to release it in November 2013, though the final schedule is part
of the planning process and subject to change:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Schedule
*** Contact information ***
If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information
here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press
In the name of the whole Fedora Secondary Arch Team for Power i'd like
to thank everyone making this an awesome release.
Thanks & regards, Phil
--
Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470
Manager Core Services | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111
Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com>
Wankelstrasse 5 | Web: http://www.redhat.com/
D-70563 Stuttgart, Germany
10 years, 10 months
Reminder: Fedora 17 end of life on 2013-07-30
by Dennis Gilmore
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Greetings.
This is a reminder email about the end of life process for Fedora 17.
Fedora 17 will reach end of life on 2013-07-30, and no further updates
will be pushed out after that time. Additionally, with the recent
release of Fedora 19, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 17
collection.
Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for more
information on upgrading from Fedora 17 to a newer release.
Dennis
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10 years, 10 months
Announcing the release of Fedora 19 for ARM!
by Dennis Gilmore
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The Fedora ARM Project is delighted to announce the release of Fedora 19
("Schrödinger's Cat"). Open the box and take a look for yourself!
Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that
continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new
release about every six months.
Download it now:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora-options#2nd_arches
Detailed information about this release can be seen in the release
notes:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F19_Release_Announcement
** What's New in Fedora 19 for ARM? **
The Fedora ARM Project takes great pride in being able to show off
features for all types of use cases, including traditional desktop
users, systems administration, development, and many more. But a few new
features are guaranteed to be seen by nearly anyone installing Fedora
and are improvements that deserve to be called out on their own. Fedora
ARM has all the features of the primary architectures along with a few
of our own.
A complete list with details of each new feature is available here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/FeatureList
== Unified Kernel ==
The Fedora 19 kernel is now unified. This greatly reduces the number of
kernels we need to build, since they are no longer board dependent. to
enable this the kernel has adopted Device Tree to define the platform.
As a result of this work supporting new devices is much simpler and may
already work on boards we do not have direct access to. If you get
Fedora 19 for ARM running on a new system we would love to hear about
it.
== X and graphical desktop support ==
We have added support for running X on the Trimslice in addition to
OMAP and Versatile Express based devices. Fedora 19 for ARM, comes with
images for Xfce, LXDE, Sugar on a Stick, KDE and Mate. Thanks to
initial-setup you create your user or set the root password on first
boot.
== Improved release process ==
Due to infrastructure changes we have been able to keep closer parity
with keeping the builds in parity with those on the primary arches,
resulting in us following the milestone processes and release Fedora 19
for ARM on the same day as the Primary architecture release. This is a
First for us.
== Software floating point removal ==
As of Fedora 19 we no longer build armv5tel rpms. this means that
support for guruplugs and sheevaplugs stops with Fedora 18. Raspberry
Pi is being supported by an optimised build called pidora.
*** Downloads, upgrades, documentation, and common bugs ***
Start by downloading Fedora 19 for ARM:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora-options#2nd_arches
If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading
*** Documentation ***
Read the full release notes for Fedora 19, guides for several languages, and learn about known bugs and how to report new ones:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
Because of the number of changes to the installer, we particularly suggest taking a peek at the Installation Guide:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ind...
Fedora 19 common bugs are documented at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F19_Release_Announcement#...
This page includes information on several known bugs in the installer,
so we recommend reading it before installing Fedora 19.
*** Contributing ***
We can't build Fedora inside a box. We need your help! Bug reports are
especially helpful--if you encounter any issues, please report them!
Fedora is a fantastic, friendly community, and we have many ways in
which you can contribute, including documentation, marketing, design,
QA, and development.
To learn how to help us, visit:
http://join.fedoraproject.org/
*** Fedora 20 ***
Fedora 20 has been in active development for several months already. We plan to release it in November 2013, though the final schedule is part of the planning process and subject to change:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Schedule
*** Contact information ***
If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press
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10 years, 10 months
