[olug] Announcing Fedora 13 (fwd)
Jon Larsen
relayer at levania.org
Tue May 25 15:55:08 UTC 2010
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On Tue, 25 May 2010, Jon Larsen wrote:
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:53:31 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Jon Larsen <relayer at levania.org>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: olug at olug.org
> Subject: [olug] Announcing Fedora 13 (fwd)
>
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> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:03:40 -0400
> From: Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> To: Fedora Announcements <announce at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Announcing Fedora 13
>
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> I'm proud to announce the release of Fedora 13, the latest innovative
> Linux distribution from the Fedora Project, a global, collaborative
> partnership of free software community members sponsored by Red Hat.
>
> If you can't wait to get the distribution, simply visit:
> http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an
>
> If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an
>
> You can also find this announcement text at:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement?F13an
>
> Or read on for loads of information about the new release and all the
> leading edge technologies we've packed into it. More links are
> available at the end of this message, too. Enjoy!
>
> * * *
>
> Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that
> continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new
> release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and
> greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 13! Join us and share the joy
> of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have
> several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks,
> virtualization and system administration.
>
> == What's New in Fedora 13? ==
>
> === For desktop users ===
>
> A universe of new features for end users:
>
> * Streamlined Installer. The user interface of Anaconda, the Fedora
> installer, has changed to handle storage devices and partitioning in
> an easy and streamlined manner, with helpful hints in the right
> places. Thanks to Chris Lumens and others on the Anaconda team, and
> Máirín Duffy, Fedora Design team lead, for her user interface
> review.
>
> * Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and PackageKit
> for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you plug in a
> printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it
> if needed. Thanks to Tim Waugh and Richard Hughes.
>
> * New desktop applications and enhancements. The Shotwell photo
> manager, Deja-dup backup software, Pino Identi.ca/Twitter client,
> and Simple Scan scanning utility are all delivered by default to
> provide an enhanced desktop experience out of the box. Palimpsest,
> the desktop utility for handling storage devices, can now manage LVM
> and RAID disks easily. As with the past several releases, Fedora 13
> includes enhanced webcam support. Hans de Goede from Red Hat has
> specially focussed on better support for dual mode camera's for this
> release.
>
> * NetworkManager improvements include better Mobile Broadband,
> Bluetooth, and new CLI abilities. NetworkManager was introduced in
> Fedora 7 and has become the de facto network configuration solution
> for distributions everywhere. NetworkManager is now a one-stop shop
> for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up,
> broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. In Fedora 13 NetworkManager adds
> mobile broadband enhancements to show signal strength; support for
> old-style dial-up networking (DUN) over Bluetooth; and command line
> support in addition to the improved graphical user interface. Thanks
> to Dan Williams of Red Hat for his extensive work on these features
> upstream and within Fedora.
>
> * Color management. Do you like your printouts to look the same as
> they do on screen - or your scanner output to look the same as what
> you just scanned? Color Management allows you to better set and
> control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through
> the gnome-color-manager package. Thanks to Richard Hughes from Red
> Hat for his involvement upstream and in Fedora.
>
> * Enhanced iPod functionality. Newer Apple iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone
> models are supported by some of your favorite photo management
> software and music library applications such as Rhythmbox. The
> devices are automatically attached using the libimobiledevice
> library, so you can work with your content more easily.
>
> * Enhanced streaming and buffering support in Totem. Totem's Movie
> Player and web browser plugins are now better at handling large
> streaming media, such as HD movies and Podcasts, thanks to the new
> disk-buffering support in GStreamer.
>
> * 3D support for ATI cards (R600 and R700) via Radeon driver. In
> Fedora 13, 3D support for many ATI cards has moved out of
> experimental status and is enabled by default. 2D support for the
> latest generation (R800) is integrated as well in this
> release. Thanks to Red Hat's Dave Airlie and many others for
> involvement upstream and in Fedora.
>
> * Experimental 3D graphics support extended to free Nouveau driver for
> NVidia cards. This release also adds experimental 3D support to a
> wide range of NVidia cards, adding them to the list of liberated
> video capabilities. Install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental
> package to try out the work in progress. Thanks to Red Hat's Ben
> Skeggs for involvement upstream and in Fedora.
>
> * KDE improvements. KDE in Fedora continues to provide tight
> integration with the latest technologies in Fedora. In this release,
> we have improved integration with PulseAudio via Phonon and the
> volume control KMix, which controls per-application volumes and
> moves application sounds between hardware devices, as well as with
> the latest PolicyKit authorization framework. We have also
> integrated new major versions, based on the KDE Development Platform
> 4, of the KOffice office suite, the K3b CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning
> application and, for developers, the KDevelop IDE, which provide
> better integration with the KDE 4 Plasma Desktop and no longer
> require the KDE 3 compatibility libraries. Thanks to the work of a
> growing community of KDE contributors in Fedora.
>
> * DisplayPort support improvements. Fedora 12 added initial support
> for the new DisplayPort display connector for Intel graphics
> chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems has now been added in this
> release. Thanks to Red Hat's Xorg team.
>
> * Experimental user management interface. The user account tool has
> been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and
> accountsservice test packages are available to make it easy to
> configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or
> icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options for
> your Fedora system. Try out the work in progress. Thanks to Matthias
> Clasen from Red Hat's Desktop team and others.
>
> === For developers ===
>
> For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies:
>
> * SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities to
> monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python, and Tcl,
> and also user space applications, starting with PostgreSQL. In the
> future, Fedora will add support for even more user space
> applications, greatly increasing the scope and power of monitoring
> for application developers. Thanks to Mark Wielaard from Red Hat.
>
> * Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows
> developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora
> to get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making
> Fedora an exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application
> development. Thanks to David Malcolm from Red Hat.
>
> * Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable Python
> 3 stack will help programmers write and test code for use in both
> Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your
> applications now using Fedora. Thanks to David Malcolm from Red Hat.
>
> * NetBeans Java EE 6 support. The NetBeans 6.8 integrated development
> environment is the first IDE to offer complete support for the
> entire Java EE 6 specification. Thanks to Victor G. Vasilyev from
> Sun/Oracle for his maintenance and support of NetBeans in
> collaboration with Fedora.
>
> * IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, Java IDE. Along with Eclipse and
> NetBeans already provided by Fedora, IDEA is a popular Java-based
> development environment newly introduced in this release. It comes
> with an intuitive GUI, integration with Ant and Maven, extensive
> language support, version control systems and test tools integration
> and compatibility with Eclipse projects. Thanks to Lubomir Rintel
> and Michal Ingeli, Fedora community volunteers, for packaging and
> integration of this feature.
>
> === For system administrators ===
>
> And don't think we forgot the system administrators:
>
> * boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO). BFO allows users to download a single,
> tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future
> versions of Fedora without having to download additional
> images. Thanks to Mike McGrath, Fedora Infrastructure lead.
>
> * System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded
> features for logging into managed domains, including caching for
> offline authentication. Now users on laptops can still login when
> disconnected from the company's managed network. The authentication
> configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to support
> SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and
> functional. Thanks to Stephen Gallagher from Red Hat.
>
> * Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the
> NFS protocol for better performance, and, in conjunction with recent
> kernel modifications, includes IPv6 support for NFS as well. Thanks
> to Steve Dickson from Red Hat.
>
> * Zarafa Open Source edition Groupware. Zarafa Open Source edition is
> a complete, 100% free and open source groupware suite that can be
> used as a drop-in Microsoft Exchange replacement for Web-based mail,
> calendaring, collaboration, and tasks. Features include IMAP/POP and
> iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile phone support, the ability
> to integrate with existing Linux mail servers, a full set of
> programming interfaces, and a comfortable look and feel using modern
> Ajax technologies. Thanks to Robert Scheck, Fedora community
> volunteer, for packaging and integration of this feature.
>
> * Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating
> lightweight, copy-on-write filesystem snapshots that can be mounted
> (and booted into) selectively. Automated snapshots allow system
> owners to easily revert to a filesystem from the previous day, or
> from before a yum update using the yum-plugin-fs-snapshot
> plugin. Btrfs is still an experimental filesystem in this release
> and requires a "btrfs" installation option to enable support for
> it. (This option is only available for non-live images.) Upcoming
> releases will integrate the snapshot functionality into the desktop
> while working on stabilization of the filesystem in parallel. Thanks
> to Josef Bacik, Btrfs filesystem developer at Red Hat, for
> filesystem work and the new yum plugin and Chris Ball from OLPC team
> for leading this effort.
>
> * LVM Snapshots merging support. Recent LVM (and device-mapper)
> snapshot advances included in Fedora 13 allow system owners to merge
> an LVM snapshot back into the origin. In the process you can
> rollback the origin LV to the state it was in before the system
> upgrade. As noted earlier, the yum-snapshot-fs-plugin can work with
> both Btrfs and LVM volumes exposing this functionality and making it
> easier to use. This feature was developed and merged upstream by Red
> Hat's storage team.
>
> * Virtualization enhancements. Fedora continues its leadership in
> virtualization technologies with improvements to KVM such as Stable
> PCI Addresses and Virt Shared Network Interface technologies. Having
> stable PCI addresses will enable virtual guests to retain PCI
> addresses' space on a host machine. The shared network interface
> technology enables virtual machines to use the same physical network
> interface cards (NICs) as the host operating system. Fedora 13 also
> enhances performance of virtualization via VHostNet acceleration of
> KVM networking, Virtx2apic for enhanced guest performance on large
> multi-processor systems, and Virtio-Serial for simple IO between the
> guest and host user spaces. Thanks to the Red Hat virtualization
> team for their ongoing contributions.
>
> * Dogtag Certificate System Dogtag is an enterprise-class open source
> Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate
> lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smart card
> management. Brought into the fold as part of the Red Hat acquisition
> of Netscape technologies, this certificate server is fully free and
> open source and now included in Fedora. Thanks to the PKI team at
> Red Hat.
>
> And that's only the beginning. A more complete list with details of
> all the new features on board Fedora 13 is available at:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList?F13an
>
> OK, go get it. You know you can't wait.
>
> http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an
>
> If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?F13an
>
> In particular, Fedora has made preupgrade a more robust solution and
> pushed several bug fixes to older releases of Fedora to enable an easy
> upgrade to Fedora 13.
>
> For an quick tour of features in Fedora 13 and pictures of many
> friends of Fedora, check out our "short-form" release notes:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an
>
> Fedora 13 full release notes and guides for several languages are
> available at:
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an
>
> Fedora 13 common bugs are documented at:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs?F13an
>
> === Fedora Spins ===
>
> Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora tailored for various
> types of users via hand-picked application set or
> customizations. Fedora 13 includes four completely new spins in
> addition to the several already available, including Fedora Security
> Lab, Design Suite, Sugar on a Stick and Moblin spin. More information
> on these spins and much more is available at
>
> http://spins.fedoraproject.org/?F13an
>
> == Power PC Support ==
>
> With Apple moving to Intel based machines and Sony PlayStation
> dropping Linux support, Fedora PowerPC (PPC) usage has dropped
> considerably. In Fedora 13, PPC is now a secondary architecture and
> the Fedora release engineering team no longer manages PPC releases. If
> you would like to participate in the PPC effort or any of the
> secondary architecture teams, refer to:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures?F13an
>
> == Contributing ==
>
> For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to
> report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the
> release notes:
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an
>
> There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help
> translate software and content, test and give feedback on software
> updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help
> with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software
> for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit
> http://join.fedoraproject.org today!
>
> == Fedora 14 ==
>
> Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes
> to improve the Fedora 13 experience, our next release, Fedora 14, is
> already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active
> development for several months already. We have an early schedule for
> an end of Oct 2010 release:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule?F13an
>
> == Contact information ==
>
> If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional
> information at:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?F13an
>
>
>
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