Fedora Weekly News Issue 22
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Issue Date: 2005-11-14
Welcome to our issue number 22 of Fedora Weekly News (FWN), the weekly newsletter for the Fedora community.
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Linux Worm Lupii
According to Mark Cox (mailto:mjc@redhat.com)'s blog (http://www.advogato.org/person/mjcox/diary.html?start=143), "..as of this weekend I've a new Linux worm to talk about, Lupii (http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=823). This Linux worm was detected around the 5th November 2005 and is designed to exploit a flaw CVE-2005-1921 (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1921) in the PHP PEAR XML-RPC Server package through a number of third party PHP scripts"
*The* New Fedora Logo
According to Joshua Wulf (mailto:jwulf@redhat.com)'s blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwulf/12910.html), "..this is the direction that it is headed in. Infinite Freedom is the concept." Here is our soon-to-be official logo (http://capstrat.com/development/fedora/index.php?imagenumber=22) for Fedora Project.
Logo Lessons
According to Greg DeKoenigsberg (mailto:gdk@redhat.com)'s message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-November/msg00105.html), "To reiterate: the logo is done...It's time to put this episode behind us, and figure out what we've learned." Our new logo can be found at Marketing: LogIdeas (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/LogoIdeas) wiki page. He also notes (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-November/msg00128.html), "There will be an article discussing the new logo in the upcoming Red Hat Magazine."
New Logo in FC5?
According to Nicu Buculei (mailto:nicu_fedora@nicubunu.ro)'s message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2005-November/msg00122.html), new fedora logo will replace redhat logo in FC5. Here is rawhide report: 20051111 changes (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-November/msg00312.html) which contains the new fedora logo.
Fedora International community websites
Rahul Sundaram points out in his message (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-websites-list/2005-November/msg00052.html), "there has been a growing number of Fedora related international websites which are completely disconnected from the each other and the formal websites. Can someone speaking these languages contact the respective website administrators and ask them to sign up in this list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list) and introduce themselves to get them all in the same page."
Firefox 1.5 RC 2 Released
According to Firefox Release note (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.5.html), "Firefox 1.5 RC 2 is available for our testing community, Web site and Web application developers, and our Extension developers." Tarball is available from Mozilla FTP site (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5rc2/linux-i686/en-US/) and RPM package should be available from Fedora Project Development Tree (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/) soon.
Logging into KDE with your SSH passphrase
Anand Buddhdev wrote his first article on Logging into KDE with your SSH passphrase for Fedora Core 4. "This little trick allows you to login to KDE or Gnome using your SSH passphrase. It automatically starts an ssh-agent, and adds your key into it. You no longer have to run ssh-add at KDE or Gnome startup."
Fedora Core 4 Updates
During the week of November 7 - November 13, Fedora Project released 20 Fedora Core 4 Updates including 5 Security Advisories.
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