Thursday, November 27, 2008

welcome Fedora 10


As always, Fedora continues to develop (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions) and integrate the latest free and open source software (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features.) The following sections provide a brief overview of major changes from the last release of Fedora. For more details about other features that are included in Fedora 10, refer to their individual wiki pages that detail feature goals and progress:
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList
Throughout the release cycle, there are interviews with the developers behind key features giving out the inside story:
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews
The following are major features for Fedora 10:
Wireless connection sharing enables ad hoc network sharing -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConnectionSharing
Better setup and use of printers through improved management tools -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterPrinting
Virtualization storage provisioning for local and remote connections now simplified -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtStorage
SecTool is a new security audit and intrusion detection system -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SecurityAudit
RPM 4.6 is a major update to the powerful, flexible software management libraries -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RPM4.6
Some other features in this release include:
Glitch free audio and better performance is achieved through a rewrite of the PulseAudio sound server to use timer-based audio scheduling -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GlitchFreeAudio
Improved webcam support -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterWebcamSupport
Better support for infrared remote controls makes them easier to connect and work with many applications -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterLIRCSupport
The paths /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin have been added to the PATH for normal users, to simplify command-line administration tasks -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SbinSanity
The online account service provides applications with credentials for online accounts listed on http://online.gnome.org/ or stored in GConf -- http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OnlineAccountsService
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