Fedora 13 will be here soon

Fedora is my favorite flavor of Linux and I use it as a Desktop OS and as a Server.  I just thought I would throw this out there for others to check out.  Fedora for thoughs who didn’t know is an Red Hat based distro.  I have made attempts to convert completely over to open source software, but there are just somethings that require Windows.  Either way it is a good operating system and you should take a look at it.  You can find out more at www.fedoraproject.org .Here is a list of features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 13 Release.

Name  

Summary   

Anaconda Storage Filtering

Final pieces of Anaconda storage rewrite

Automatic Print Driver Installation

Packages like gutenprint-cups, hpijs, and pbm2l2030 should be installed on-demand when hardware requiring those drivers is detected

Better Webcam Support

More webcams supported out of the box with a special focus on dual mode cameras

boot.fedoraproject.org

Use very small images (iso, floppy, disk) to bootstrap a machine that then contacts a remote server for boot information to continue the installation process

Boost 1.41 Uplift

This feature brings version 1.41.0 of Boost to Fedora 13, together with Boost.MPI. As a side effect, Boost will be built with CMake (instead of BJam)

Dogtag Certificate System

Dogtag Certificate System is an enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smartcard management

ColorManagement

GNOME Color Manager is a session framework that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles in the GNOME desktop

Easier Python Debugging

The gdb debugger has been extended so that it can report detailed information on the internals of the Python 2 and Python 3 runtimes

Gnome 2.30

Include Gnome 2.30

Implicit DSO Linking

Change ld default to –no-add-needed

IntelliJ IDEA

Add Community IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition packages and their dependencies into repositories

KDE44

Rebase to KDE 4.4 and offers new features such as PolicyKit 1 KAuth backend and improved PulseAudio integration

KDE PolicyKit One Qt

This feature adds PolicyKit One support to Qt/KDE applications and the KDE desktop

KDE PulseAudio Integration

Fedora 13 features improved PulseAudio integration in KDE’s Phonon and KMix

KVM Stable PCI Addresses

Allow devices in KVM guest virtual machines to retain the same PCI address allocations as other devices are added or removed from the guest configuration

NetBeans_6.8

Re-base to the NetBeans 6.8

NetworkManager Bluetooth DUN

NetworkManager now supports easy-to-use Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking (DUN) support

NetworkManager Command Line

Control NetworkManager without a GUI

NetworkManager Mobile Status

The NetworkManager applet shows the current signal strength, cellular technology (GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA or 1x/EVDO etc), and roaming status while connected for cards where this functionality is supported

NFSv4 Default

Change the default NFS protocol to version 4

NFS Client IPv6

Support for mounting NFS servers over IPv6

Nouveau DisplayPort

Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers for NVIDIA hardware

Python 3

A packaged version of python 3 that installs in parallel with the Python 2 stack

Radeon DisplayPort

Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers for Radeon hardware

RPM4.8

Update to RPM 4.8

SIP Witch Domain Telephony

This feature enables an entirely free software alternative to Skype using standard IETF protocols along with support for direct peer-to-peer secure communications such as possible with ZRTP capable softphones and without the need for a mitigating “service provider”

SSSD By Default

Include SSSD the default set of base Fedora 13 packages and configure it through authconfig,and firstboot

System Rollback
With Btrfs

Allow automatic and manual disk partition backups

Systemtap Static Probes

Systemtap allows event tracing of programs when they have static probes inserted

Sugar_0.88

Provide the latest Sugar Learning Environment, as well as an enhanced activity set, which can be used as a choice in the login screen and possibly a live spin

Udisks Improvements

Add support for LVM (and various other improvements) to the udisks and gnome-disk-utility stack

Upstart0.6.0

Move to the the lastest supported version of Upstart

User Account Dialog

A new user account dialog tool to create new users and edit user-related information in single-user systems or small deployments.

VHostNet

Enable kernel acceleration for kvm networking

Virtx2apic

x2apic is an x86 feature that improves performance, especially on large systems. Virt x2apic is a port of this feature for KVM, improving guest performance, especially for guests with many virtual processors

Virtio-Serial

Expose multiple ports to the guest in the form of simple char devices for simple IO between the guest and host userspaces

Virt Shared Network Interface

Enable guest virtual machines to share a physical network interface (NIC) with other guests and the host operating system

Zarafa

Zarafa Outlook Sharing is a Microsoft Exchange replacement

Name   ↓

Summary   ↓

Anaconda Storage Filtering

Final pieces of Anaconda storage rewrite

Automatic Print Driver Installation

Packages like gutenprint-cups, hpijs, and pbm2l2030 should be installed on-demand when hardware requiring those drivers is detected

Better Webcam Support

More webcams supported out of the box with a special focus on dual mode cameras

boot.fedoraproject.org

Use very small images (iso, floppy, disk) to bootstrap a machine that then contacts a remote server for boot information to continue the installation process

Boost 1.41 Uplift

This feature brings version 1.41.0 of Boost to Fedora 13, together with Boost.MPI. As a side effect, Boost will be built with CMake (instead of BJam)

Dogtag Certificate System

Dogtag Certificate System is an enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smartcard management

ColorManagement

GNOME Color Manager is a session framework that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles in the GNOME desktop

Easier Python Debugging

The gdb debugger has been extended so that it can report detailed information on the internals of the Python 2 and Python 3 runtimes

Gnome 2.30

Include Gnome 2.30

Implicit DSO Linking

Change ld default to –no-add-needed

IntelliJ IDEA

Add Community IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition packages and their dependencies into repositories

KDE44

Rebase to KDE 4.4 and offers new features such as PolicyKit 1 KAuth backend and improved PulseAudio integration

KDE PolicyKit One Qt

This feature adds PolicyKit One support to Qt/KDE applications and the KDE desktop

KDE PulseAudio Integration

Fedora 13 features improved PulseAudio integration in KDE’s Phonon and KMix

KVM Stable PCI Addresses

Allow devices in KVM guest virtual machines to retain the same PCI address allocations as other devices are added or removed from the guest configuration

NetBeans_6.8

Re-base to the NetBeans 6.8

NetworkManager Bluetooth DUN

NetworkManager now supports easy-to-use Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking (DUN) support

NetworkManager Command Line

Control NetworkManager without a GUI

NetworkManager Mobile Status

The NetworkManager applet shows the current signal strength, cellular technology (GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA or 1x/EVDO etc), and roaming status while connected for cards where this functionality is supported

NFSv4 Default

Change the default NFS protocol to version 4

NFS Client IPv6

Support for mounting NFS servers over IPv6

Nouveau DisplayPort

Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers for NVIDIA hardware

Python 3

A packaged version of python 3 that installs in parallel with the Python 2 stack

Radeon DisplayPort

Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers for Radeon hardware

RPM4.8

Update to RPM 4.8

SIP Witch Domain Telephony

This feature enables an entirely free software alternative to Skype using standard IETF protocols along with support for direct peer-to-peer secure communications such as possible with ZRTP capable softphones and without the need for a mitigating “service provider”

SSSD By Default

Include SSSD the default set of base Fedora 13 packages and configure it through authconfig,and firstboot

System Rollback
With Btrfs

Allow automatic and manual disk partition backups

Systemtap Static Probes

Systemtap allows event tracing of programs when they have static probes inserted

Sugar_0.88

Provide the latest Sugar Learning Environment, as well as an enhanced activity set, which can be used as a choice in the login screen and possibly a live spin

Udisks Improvements

Add support for LVM (and various other improvements) to the udisks and gnome-disk-utility stack

Upstart0.6.0

Move to the the lastest supported version of Upstart

User Account Dialog

A new user account dialog tool to create new users and edit user-related information in single-user systems or small deployments.

VHostNet

Enable kernel acceleration for kvm networking

Virtx2apic

x2apic is an x86 feature that improves performance, especially on large systems. Virt x2apic is a port of this feature for KVM, improving guest performance, especially for guests with many virtual processors

Virtio-Serial

Expose multiple ports to the guest in the form of simple char devices for simple IO between the guest and host userspaces

Virt Shared Network Interface

Enable guest virtual machines to share a physical network interface (NIC) with other guests and the host operating system

Zarafa

Zarafa Outlook Sharing is a Microsoft Exchange replacement

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