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Fedora 10
Fedora 10 is now officially out, although there was a leaked version floating around for the past few days. I had checked earlier this morning and the page still said coming in one day, but now it has changed. Here are the Fedora 10 release notes. Here is the get Fedora 10 page.
A small copy from the overview:
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:/sbinhave been added to thePATHfor normal users, to simplify command-line administration tasks -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SbinSanityThe 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
Features for Fedora 10 are tracked on the feature list page:
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList
ed.z.: I think I will try the full bloat version this time instead of just gnome, I want to try out the newer KDE as well. Ya'll on high speed have fun! Let us know first impressions and gotchas, etc.