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Via Linux Weekly News comes the tale of Fedora 10's recent troubles with D-Bus. Fedora recently issued a security update for D-Bus which broke a number of applications on generic Fedora systems. One of the areas affected was PackageKit -- essentially leaving those accustomed to updating their systems with the Fedora GUI tools unable to do so in this manner.
The fix detailed by Paul Frields (issuing the command su -c 'yum update' in a terminal window) is straightforward, but it has the Fedora community talking about how to minimize and handle update hiccups in the future.
Since the dawn of the distribution, there have been ways to remaster, re-spin, and otherwise rework a Linux flavor into something slightly different -- something that could be replicated and installed across multiple machines. These remastering tools are usually distribution specific (I first tried my hand with this several years back with Knoppix and the Debian live-magic live image creator) and vary in how forgiving (and permissive) they are when new users get too enthusiastic in choosing packages to add and remove.
TechRadar recently featured InstaLinux, a web interface utilizing the Linux Common Operating Environment (LinuxCOE) SystemDesigner. This application allows for the creation of network and media (including USB) installation images using a number of core Linux distributions as a base.
Distribution naming schemes are one of the more humorous aspects of the open source community. Ubuntu uses an adjective followed by an animal name (Intrepid Ibex, Jaunty Jackalope), while Debian names releases after characters in the movie Toy Story (Sarge, Etch, Lenny). Fedora's method is a bit more obscure, but no less clever.
The Fedora Project is calling for suggestions on what to name Fedora 11. If you're a contributing member of the Fedora community and want to take a stab at bestowing a title on the distro's next release, here what you need to know.
Via Linux Weekly News comes the announcement that Fedora 8, scheduled for retirement on December 25th, will be supported a bit longer -- until January 7th, 2009. At that point, updates will cease (this includes security updates), new builds will not be allowed in the buildsystem, and all bugs filed against Fedora 8 will be closed.
