IBM to Free Java - Next Week?
Coverage of an odd mailing list thread suggesting that IBM is gearing up to slap an F/OSS license on their Java compiler and runtime.
FC2 to FC3 upgrade with Yum
My notes on upgrading Fedora Core from 2 to 3 using the Yum package manager.
Seth Vidal : Fedora Foundation
Seth on the recent Fedora Foundation announcement: “It reminds me of the announcements about 2 years ago for something called the Red Hat Linux Project.”
CNet: Red Hat tries again with Linux enthusiasts
Decent coverage of recent Fedora activity. Things should start kicking up here now that Fedora Extras CVS is available and Seth Vital is taking a more active role.
gyum - Graphical User Interface for Yum
Cool. This is one of the most frequent requests on yum-devel. Not sure who’s behind this though because I don’t remember seeing it discussed on the mailing list.
RE: fedora core 3 goals.
Icon’s fictitious #redhat IRC transcript relaying some of the issues surrounding the Fedora project from the community’s POV. This is a few months old. I hope some of this has been cleared up.
FC4 - Thoughts about the future.
Seth Vital provides a list of things that need to happen for Fedora to be successful moving forward. Note that most of these have been problems that received little attention since Fedora 1.