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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.
On Tuesday, at approximately 10 am Eastern (US), the Fedora Project will make its Fedora 10 ( Cambridge ) final release available for general download.
This release has focused on delivering a number of improvements, including faster booting, smoother start up of the graphical server, ad hoc network sharing, remote virtual installs, and easier installation of GStreamer codecs from third party sources.
Most people who attend an open source conference typically walk away with t-shirts, stickers and other accessories branded with the logo of their favorite distro or open source project. If you don't go to those events, you can still buy cool stuff to show your support or to give as gifts this holiday season.
Here are some Web sites to check out:
Bryan Che, part of the project management team at Red Hat, started a new project at Fedora this week called Nightlife. Based on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Condor Project, Nightlife will give people the ability to donate idle capacity from their own computers to an open, general-purpose Fedora-run grid for processing socially beneficial work and scientific research that requires access to large amounts of computing power.
