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InternetNews: It looks like current Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith will not be overseeing the Beefy Miracle Fedora 17 release.
darthcamaro writes "Red Hat is changing the leadership at the Fedora Project. Jared Smith is out after having been the Fedora Project Leader since June of 2010. In is Robyn Bergeron — who will be the first female leader of the open source project's history. Bergeron is well known in the community as she has most recently been the Fedora Program Manager." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Softpedia: "Today, January 18th, the openSUSE and Fedora websites are on strike against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act)."
MakeUseOf: All of these Linux distributions use .rpm files as installable packages rather than the .deb files which belong to the Debian family.
LinuxBSDos.com: "This article shows how to install and use gconf-editor on Fedora 16 and Linux Mint 12 to modify them."
ComputerWorld:We look at the top four Linux distributions to find out which is right for which users.
LinuxBSDos.com: "If you are not happy with GNOME 3, and are using Fedora 16, that is, the main edition, which uses the GNOME 3 desktop environment, you will find Cinnamon a lot more fun to use."
HowtoForge: "PDNSD is a non authoritative caching DNS server. It maintains a disk cache of the queries that your system performs and subsequent queries will be faster from the cache."
LinuxBSDos.com: "The security features in Fedora make it one of my favorite Linux distributions. And that is partly why it is in my list of the top 6 KDE distributions of 2011."
Softpedia: "On the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) meeting that took place last evening, December 12th, the developers approved several new features for the Fedora 17 release."
Phoronix: This is a comparison of the 64-bit performance of Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Fedora 16 in an out-of-the-box configuration.
LinuxBSDos.com: "GPT, or GUID Partition Table, is an alternate partition scheme that eliminates the restrictions of the MBR or Master Boot Record partitioning scheme."
Muktware: used to be a Fedora user in the early days, when I had more time to play with my PC. Ever since I switched to Debian and then Ubuntu...
Linux notes from DarkDuck: "The most popular option of Fedora is GNOME, and Fedora 16 includes the most recent version of it, GNOME 3."
LinuxBSDos.com: "No distribution's installer makes setting up disk encryption as easy as Anaconda, the Fedora system installer."
Red Hat: The Fedora Scholarship is awarded to one student each year to assist with the recipient's college or university education.
LinuxPlanet: There are many things to explore on the Linux Planet. This week, a new Fedora release provides plenty of items to examine. The new Fedora release isn't the only new open source release this week, as the Linux Planet welcomes new KDE and Firefox releases as well.
HowtoForge: "This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 15 system to Fedora 16."
Verne is now out, on its voyage of Linux distribution discovery. LinuxToday has rounded up a few of the many reviews out on this distro.
ServerWatch: Fedora embraces OpenStack and gets systemd through and through.
Karrde712 writes "Fedora 16 has just been released, bringing with it Gnome 3.2, KDE 4.7, GRUB2 and more!" Here are the full release notes; most users will probably want to jump to the list of changes for desktop users. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Fedora 16, the latest version of the popular community Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, has been released: "The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 'Verne'. As always, Fedora continues to develop and integrate the latest free and open source software. The following....
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on Fedora 15."
Fedora: As of tomorrow's rawhide [1], gnome-session will no longer treat llvmpipe as an unsupported driver. This means gnome-shell will run even on hardware without a native 3D driver, including virt guests.
ITworld:Since 1979 (or thereabouts), Linux and UNIX-like operating systems have followed a particular, if arcane, way of organizing files.
jfruhlinger writes "Even Linux's most passionate partisans will admit that its filesystem, which stashes vital files in a variety of arcane directories, can be baffling to users. The developers at the Fedora project want to cut the Gordian knot and consolidate all executables into /usr/bin and all libraries into /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. One downside: this system would conflict with the standards developed by the Linux Standard Base, or the (rarely used) Filesystem Hierarchy Standard." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Linux.com: Fedora Linux is always pushing the bleeding edge, and has evolved into a versatile, flexible distro with something for everyone, for little old ladies with netbooks to students to powerhouse enterprises.
MakeUseOf: Linux distributions have been improving by leaps and bounds, and those improvements are becoming visible in the latest beta releases.
InternetNews: From the 'Democratically Chosen Linux Names' files...