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Fedora 10 is out, and to celebrate that milestone, Fedora Project leader Paul Frields sat down with Red Hat community guru Greg DeKoenigsberg to talk about where Fedora’s been over the past five years and where it’s going. Along the way they discuss KVM improvements, the debut of new Fedora artwork, and the future of codec support. Watch the video, then head on over to fedoraproject.org to fire it up!

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Today’s installment of Spotlight On features Dan Williams discussing Network Manager. Dan explains how the Fedora community designed Network Manager to make network configuration less of a hassle–now getting onto the internet is easier than ever before.

We caught up with Chris Wright at the Red Hat Summit to discuss how the oVirt sessions were going, and why people are so excited to see open source bring a virtualization tool to the market. oVirt works across platforms and architectures to meet the challenge of managing virtualization in the datacenter. For more information, check out http://ovirt.org.

In the second installment of the Spotlight On series, we feature Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes on the fantastic new abstraction layer called PackageKit. PackageKit allows users to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API. This maintains a common set of GUI features, enabling the user to have a better session experience overall. For more information, visit www.packagekit.org.

People often wonder how to get new capabilities—new packages, new features in existing packages, or even bug fixes—included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The process for doing so is straightforward, but may be foreign to those with a background in traditional software products.

To summarize, the process is:
1)Get the new code accepted upstream.
2)Get it included in Fedora.
3)Get it included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Although this article focuses on the Linux kernel, the steps apply to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux components and packages.

The key element in the process is that Red Hat tracks upstream. This means that Red Hat works closely with the open source community. Any new features must first be accepted upstream before they’re added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. » Read more

Red Hat engineer Dan Williams demonstrates the shared networking capabilities of Fedora 10.

We here at Red Hat are pleased to bring you a brand new set of videos aimed at showing off the latest and greatest enhancements in our technologies–featuring the very people who helped create them in the first place. The “SPOTLIGHT ON” series highlights the ways in which collaboration drives innovation by looking at projects that have been improved by community input. In our first installment, we track down Red Hat’s own Karsten Wade and Stephen Smoogen from the University of New Mexico to talk about Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), the Fedora-sourced repository of add-on packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They discuss how EPEL is a tool for user-driven innovation that comes from and benefits enterprise customers with more stable code and lower business costs.

For Satellite:
If the Satellite server is “connected”, then it will initiate outbound connections to ports 80 and 443 on the Red Hat Network (RHN) hosted service (rhn.redhat.com / satellite.rhn.redhat.com). Access to these hosts and ports should not be restricted to ensure correct functioning of the satellite system. If required, an HTTP(S) proxy may be used, by passing the “--http-proxy” option to the “satellite-sync” command.

If using a proxy server, Satellite will initiate connections to port 5222 on each proxy server connected. This is used for communications relating to the “OSA” service (also known as “Push to Client“). If using the OSA service, access to this port should not be restricted.

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1.) Firstly, lock the account to prevent the user from using the login until the change has been made:

# usermod -L

2.) Change the password expiration date to 0 to ensure the user changes the password during the next login:

# chage -d 0

3.) To unlock the account after the change do the following:

# usermod -U

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• How will we get our media in the future? The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) may have something to say about that. From Newsweek.
• If you’re not following the Mars Phoenix on Twitter, you totally should be. Because a robot that celebrates Talk Like A Pirate Day… from Mars? Awesome.
• In honor of Richard Wright’s passing this week, check out this Pink Floyd / 2001: A Space Oddity synch in Wired.
• Keeping an eye on web stuff: Does the web need an indicator of its truthiness? Tim Berners-Lee thinks so. And, in other news, the Web 2.0 expo seemed to take place without much of a downturn, even with the rough US economic news. (Wired, again.)
• And to round out the Wired trifecta–and suggest a celebratory activity for this most festive (Arrrr!) day–we give you Pirate like a Pirate. Ahoy, matey, and set the sails for the weekend!