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Read Fedora Summit . How about Fedora Synergy because it combines the effort from developers and the community?

Back from Vanlug meeting. There were about 40 people attending to the event. Most of audiences use Debian distribution. However, they were very open as some of them did not touch Fedora Core since the first release. I felt nervous for the presentation but it went very well. I took the opportunity to demonstrate Sugar interface from OLPC project, a presentation of Fedora Core 6 and the subproject. Too bad I did not the livespin of Fedora Core 6. I left my business card for the contact to the project. Overal, it was a very good experience

Busy weekend. I just took a break for making a presentation of Fedora Core 6 and Fedora Project for Vancouver Linux Users Group which will debut on November 20, 2006. A local computer store was kind enough to give me a laptop for the demonstration of Fedora Core 6 (Zod) live spin and Sugar interface from OLPC Project. Should you be interested to view that event and live near Vancouver, here is the address .

In response to this OSNews post . I captured screenshots from OLPC QEMU build image available on http://www.fedoraforum.org/gallery/search.php?do=searchresults&searchid=2585

Vancouver Linux Users Group recently updated the website for the meeting. The presentation will focus on Fedora Core 6 and some facets of Fedora Project from Artwork to LiveCD. Vanlug is one of the largest group in the world. This event will be a first as Fedora Ambassador for Vancouver, Canada.

Following the previous blog , the email is now back online.

If some readers tried to email me, they will receive a bounce back. The reason is explained from Lik Sang that was my long time host server. I already get a new local host server and the email service should resume soon. Currently, the alternate email is tshimulu@gmail.com.

English Echo, the icon theme successors of Bluecurve is now available on Fedora Rawhide thanks to Fedora developers. Simply do the command: yum --enablerepo=development install echo-icon-theme The icon set is currently incomplete but impatient users can give a try. They will be more from Artwork team who also needs assistances from contributors, artist and musicians (for sound theme). Français Echo, le successeur du theme icone Bluecurve est maintenant disponible sur la Fedora Rawhide grace aux développeurs de Fedora. Éxecutez cette commande: yum --enablerepo=development install echo-icon-theme Ce paque d'icones est incomplet mais les utilisateurs impatients peuvent l'essayer. Si vous voulez contribuer au développement d'Echo, prière d'assister l'équipe de Artwork.

Fedora Core 6 artwork is completed. Now Artwork team is focusing on Fedora Core 7. As Artwork team is working on Echo icons, we need more participation from different desktop environments (From KDE to XFCE) users/developers in order to test Echo icons. People using DE not including in Fedora Extras like Enlightement are also welcome to join. We also considering to revamp the GTK theme to take advantage of Cairo backend engine so we need to get mockups for comparison. It does not have to be like a glass theme as something that is really original is welcome too. Interested people can join the mail list at http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list.

Running the OLPC interface emulator via QEMU. The system booted under 10 seconds with most of services disabled. The interface is very simple without some tooltips due to its works in progress nature. It will be a matter of time where future version of Fedora will hugely benefit from OLPC in term of memory and light weight.

The Canonical mimicking previous attempts years ago . Canonical decided to take approach Red Hat, Suse and Mandriva tried five years ago. While that strategy might work in short term, the quality and the support will suffer at the long term because the staff will be overstreched and there will be a significant loss of money. It takes years to get a certifications on enterprise level.

Scanned from SanDisk USB Flash Drive box. Good to see Linux getting some recognitions from manufacturer.

I dusted off submitted bugs for gdesklets. Boy, I feel lazy to check out most of them especially after the desktop computer went off and it took a month to get a new motherboard under warranty. After rereading bug #187516 , it turned out to be an upstream issue. Good thing workaround are already published and it is time to update that package including patch. Other bugs like #197122 and #197799 are pratically fixed as well. Unfortunately, this mail report managed to crash the fun so fixed packages will have to wait.

I almost complete the set of emotes and plan to work on weather icons. Making a cloud through application like Inkscape is challengin than expected. Some of them will be derived from Tango icons. Check out the new Echo emote artwork . The devil-grin emote is scarier than before. I am almost the artwork may not be ready for Fedora Core 6 Final Release as I expected but these new icons will certainly see the day on Fedora Core 7. There is an interesting topic on LWN related with Fedora Board to not bring X.org 7.1 to Fedora Core 5 yet. With the recent release of Nvidia driver , one of the problem is solved. I intend to upgrade from the current Fedora Core 5 to Fedora Core 6 Test 2. I consider triple booting the system but GRUB won't ajust to the current Fedora system forcing me to manually update it.

Finally the LinuxWorld in San Francisco is over. Pratically, all of Fedora Core 5 DVD were gone. As for Fedora among people in the show, Kasten summarized it . I also got the opportunity to try Test 2 of Fedora Core 6. Eclipse crashed during the boot up due to java error. Compared to last year, this exposition was not as exciting. However, it was nice to meet other Fedora contributor like Toshio. Now back to working on project for Fedora Core 6.

Met a lot of medias people, among them is the actual Linux Today editor Brain Profitt. The booth is very crowded as the DVD version of FC5, T-Shirts, hats go so fast. Nice to see Spot around and some of Red Hat staff like Anthony Green.

I met Jack (just come back from Japan) in Moscone Center, San Francisco, USA and set the equipments. While we were outside, the organizers moved the stuff in another booth due to their mistakes. We are ready for tomorrow exposition though.

I completed the set of emotes small and large following Nicu's suggestion about the outlines. I also found a trick to generate a simple shadow for the emotes. According to Diana Fong, "they are so expressive". Good to hear a good feedback after almost spending the night cleaning and rearranging these emotes. Hopefully the theme will make it for Fedora Core 6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoDevelopment

I spent most of times working on the emotes for Echo themes, the successor of Bluecurve icons. So far I completed the set of the small emotes using Inkscape through a TabletPC. The effort is displayed on Echo Development from the Fedora Project Wiki. As LinuxWorld San Francisco week is near, I hope to complete the larger version before.

I had a discussion with my teen sister about the operating system based on Linux. At first, it was about LinuxWorld. She assumed that this event would means that all people use only Linux. I added that some distros users also have a different operationg system like Windows for exemple so LinuxWorld also appeal for Windows/OSX companies interested to look at a Linux distribution. Second was about the industries. She said most studios use Mac only aside Windows. I pointed out that a Linux distros is also used as server/workstation. Recent case is Halo movie based on videogames. Third discussion was particulary intersesting. The use of MSN messenger. According to her, teens customized the message but it won't show on other applications like GAIM or AMSN. Another point has about a distros. Apparently, it seems that user like my mother is afraid of change. For example, the feel of OpenOffice is different from Office 2000 or Office 2003 mostly because of her environmental work. Oddly eno...