There is many different types of cpu's out there. From SPARC to Alpha, Arm
to s390. Most people run i386 or x86_64, how can you get a distro for your
favorite exotic preference? Fedora has been doing a lot of work to allow
interested people to build and support the architecture of their choice.
Work has been going on for arm, alpha, ia64, s390, and SPARC.
This paper will cover what has been done to enable motivated people to
bring up and support new architectures. The same tools used to make Fedora
can be used to layer products on top of Fedora also. Interested in MIPS,
PA-RISC, or...
This tutorial will demonstrate how to use kickstart's %pre section to collect hardware information and pass that data back to the PHP server which uses it to generate the kickstart file. The system can also maintain a database of available hardware and keep installation logs.
Video of Jesse Keating's presentation at the 2008 Linux Symposium in Ottawa.
In the past, creating your own distribution has involved too much black
magic. Over the past few years Fedora has worked very hard to open up the
distribution compose process and shed light on the black magic, so that
interesting people can do interesting things with our package sets and
create interestingly specific "spins" for distribution.
A healthy community is the lifeblood of any open source project. Many open source contributors first get involved while they are students, but this is almost always on their own time. At Seneca College we have developed an approach to sustainably involving students in open source communities that has proven successful in a course setting.
Matt Domsch talks about the MirrorManager software he's written over the past 18 months, used by Fedora to get all our release bits to our mirrors. Recorded at the 2008 Linux Symposium.
This is reposted from the Fedora Reloaded podcast and features an interview with Finux that explains how SELinux works and how Fedora users can best take advantage of it.
This how to explains how to add your blog to Planet Fedora, now easier than ever thanks to the "self-service" tools recently created by planet maintainer Seth Vidal. The video was created by Kushal Das.
Are you Fedora too? Why not install Cheese and introduce yourself like these contributors did at FUDCon. The video was created by Mairin Duffy, and the music is "Monkey Business" by Burnt Toast For Breakfast.
Another new feature in Fedora 9 was the World Clock applet in Gnome. Useful for anybody who has to work with colleagues across timezones, especially relevant to those of us who are part of the free software community. This video was produced by Paul Frields.
FUDCon was a few weeks ago now, and Paul Frields fulfilled his duty as our fearless leader by giving the "State of the Union" talk. Fedora contributor Clint Savage recorded the audio from the talk, and now we're sharing it with all of you who couldn't be there.
Fedora 8 introduced significant improvements to Gnome's bluetooth stack, making it much easier to use. Fedora 9 saw this technology mature further and now you can watch this video from Fedora contributor Kashul Das to find out just how easy it is to use!
Have you heard about Gnome's new GVFS system? It
lets you copy multiple files at once, queues transfers and keeps track
of everything you're doing in one neat window. It's available in Fedora 9 and this screencast shows you how to make the most of it.