Fedora Weekly News Issue 199

[Finalzone]

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 199 for the week ending October 25, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

• Our issue kicks off this week with news from the Fedora Planet community of Fedora developers and users, including thoughts on PHP security, a new tool, rpmguard, continued work on libguestfs, and a great Fedora 12 beta roundup.
• From Ambassadors we have an event report on ABLEConf in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Much goodness from the Quality Assurance beat, with updates on this past week's two Test days, detailed weekly meetings notes, and various Fedora 12 beta-related activities.
• In news from Fedora's Translation team, updates on milestone for Fedora 12 translation tasks, new contributors of a couple Fedora Localization Project language teams, and details on the next FLSCo election.
• In Art/Design news, some icon emblem work, Fedora 12 final wallpaper polish, and details on post-beta F12 desktop look changes.
• Security Advisories brings us up to date on a couple security releases for Fedora 10 and 11
• . Our issue rounds out with the always-interesting Virtualization beat, with discussion on paravirtualization and KVMs in Fedora, installing Virtio drivers in Windows XP, and details on Fedora 12's kernel samepage merging (KSM) feature. We hope you enjoy FWN 199!

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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson