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The tubes were filled, the release day came and was enjoyed, what is remaining? Install the thing and play with it (if you didn't to this id advance, at the PR, Beta or Alpha). And drool a low awaiting for the install to finish...

The final preparations are in place, everybody is gearing for the release, so the webcomic can't stay behind. Now back to filling those tubes...

As I told in an earlier post, I have ready the Christmas edition for the webcomic, which is somewhat a bad thing, since I may get new ideas in the meantime and so happened a few days ago. But is a spectacular turn of events, the secondary idea was voided, F8 will not be killed on that day, I can't make a webcomic about the guy finding a dead Fedora under his Christmas tree, I am back at something that will annoy our Ubuntu friends :p

Obviously the premise of today's cartoon is drawn from state politics and events, but that is not more than a pretext for telling a story about FOSS communities. My main issue with the joke is its difficulty to translate, losing the cool "-trix" suffix (terminatrix, dominatrix) - I know why I hate translations...

I think someone is preparing a release these days, so a welcome webcomic from me (you can file it in the "mine is bigger" collection)...

This week I try an experiment with the wecomic: replace the (must hated by some readers) handfont with a new font, Rufscript, a font made by Hiran, from our community and already packaged for Fedora. I am not sure (and I could use some feedback) if the readability is improved, but this new font is more compact, I can put more text in one strip (again, this is not necessarily a good thing). Another implication of the font change is the move from a Public Domain font to a GPLv3+font exception one, but this should not be a problem, both are Free.

Earlier today, talking with Kushal in #fedora-art about photography he said a phrase which rang a bell in my head "I shoot people" and made me to try a few T-shirt designs on that theme (follow the links for the SVG sources and a large view): Now, as always, I am undecided, can't say which is my one choice, the "I shoot people" design (in two variants) or the "cameras don't shoot people, people shoot people" design. Opinions? Until now the feedback I received for the first design is 50-50.

A flamerwar about why Fedora sucks and what should be done to stop that is a recurring event and usually the subject is multimedia support. Well, as the problem with multimedia is smaller and smaller (do you saw the new capabilities built into PackageKit?), the latest flamewar (still ongoing) is about "Long Term Support" and I believe it is a kind of record, my fingers are tired of deleting unread threads...

Its' been a while from my last webcomic containing the "U" word, I have to correct this...

Freeze dates are freeze dates and we are supposed to respect them, but also features are features and is natural for us to crave for them... So which crave-worthy application was released recently? GIMP 2.6, of course, I crave for it too!

So the time for the so called "surprise" is now: a basic tutorial about how I do and how I should do the cartoon titles for my Fedora Weekly Webcomic (the tutorial is structured in two parts).

The other day I said I will not do a webcomic special for Fedora's birthday and just move this week issue one day in advance and today will go with a surprise instead.

As today is party day for Fedora's 5 years birthday, I had a dilemma: do a special edition of the webcomic or just move one time the publishing day from Thursday to Wednesday? I went with the later option as I expected to be very busy those days with not enough time for two webcomics. If you are not entirely happy with today's issue, I have to reveal something: for tomorrow a webcomic-related goodie is scheduled!

If you want to celebrate 5 years of Fedora, here are a few buttons of various size which you can use on your blogs: Note: if you want the source for a customized (translated?) version, just change the file name from .png to .svg

All is well that ends well, and it seems now we have a happy ending, but the situation was (IMO) quite ridiculous.