Written by Thomas Chung on 2007-01-22

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Welcome to our issue number 74 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community. The latest issue can always be found here.

Fedora Unity releases updated Fedora Core 6 Re-Spins

Fedora Unity Project (http://fedoraunity.org/) announces in fedora-announce-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-January/msg00005.html):

The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins (DVD and CD Sets) of Fedora Core 6. These Re-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora Core 6 and all updates released as of January 11th, 2007. The ISO images are available for i386 and x86_64 architectures via BitTorrent starting Thursday, January 18th, 2007. PPC images will follow within the next 5 days, but will have had only limited testing.

• http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/

Fedora LiveCD On-Demand Service

Thomas Chung (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung) announces in fedora-livecd-list (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2007-January/msg00103.html):

Just for the fun, I would like to offer a free service for next few days on experiment. Basically this is a customized and personalized LiveCD On-Demand for your need. You tell me what you want on the CD and I'll *try* to build it in 24 hours. It will be based on the official Fedora 6 LiveCD + your own selection of package.

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD

Flash Player 9.0.31.0 released for i386 Linux

Warren Togami (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WarrenTogami) points out in his blog (http://wtogami.livejournal.com/13353.html):

Today Adobe released 9.0.31.0 for i386 only. It seems to work fairly well on most Fedora and RHEL3+. Many of the annoying critical bugs in Flash Player 7.x like the X Composite crash, or xfs font path issue, are now solved. Many websites that worked very poorly in Linux for the past months are now more usable.

• http://macromedia.mplug.org/

Fluendo makes proprietary codecs available to Linux users

According to recent article posted at arstechnica.com (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070115-8624.html):

In response to the growing demand for proprietary multimedia codecs on the open-source Linux platform, multimedia software development company Fluendo has released GStreamer codec plugins that provide native support for a variety of proprietary media formats. Available from Fluendo's web shop, several of the plugins facilitate encoding as well as playback. In order to provide these codecs without risking legal conflict, Fluendo has properly licensed the relevant patents on the various formats from their respective holders.

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia

Fedora 7: The Linux Knight in Shining Armor?

According to recent article posted at phoronix.com (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=627&num=1):

With Fedora 7 being scheduled to come out only six months after the final release of Fedora Core 6, these goals and tentative features are certainly ambitious. The most notable additions on the table for Fedora 7 are an overhaul for the Fedora design with the end to Core and Extras, extensive wireless network improvements, and over two dozen noteworthy improvements. If all of these features can be delivered in time, will Fedora 7 shine through as Linux's knight in shining armor?

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7

Security Week in Review 2007-01-14

Josh Bressers (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoshBressers) reports in his blog (http://www.bress.net/blog/index.php?/archives/49-Security-Week-in-Review-2007-01-14.html):

• kernel - The Fedora kernel update follows upstream as closely as possible, this is by design, and can be an advantage when trying to support new hardware.
• squirrelmail - This squirrelmail update fixes a cross site scripting flaw that was discovered in 2006.
• squid - The flaw fixed in this update, CVE-2007-0247, also affects FC6. That update should come out in the near future.
• ed - It's a minor temporary file flaw that's being fixed. I think it's noteworthy that ed is still packaged even though it's incredibly old.

Fedora Weekly Reports 2007-01-15

We have a new effort in place to report The Board news as well as Meeting Minutes from each sub-project for Fedora community to gather information on the happenings in the Fedora universe in a easily digestible and referenceable format.

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/WeeklyReports/2007-01-15

Fedora Core 5 and 6 Updates

During the week of January 15 - January 21, Fedora Project released 10 Fedora Core 5 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC5) including 05 Security Advisories.

During the week of January 15 - January 21, Fedora Project released 30 Fedora Core 6 Updates (http://fedoranews.org/cms/FC6) including 06 Security Advisories.

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