This page contains the highest-level talking points for the Fedora 13 release. When adding to this page, consider points that have a wide appeal, and consider whether or not there is a "bigger picture" that needs to be described. In some cases, a feature is part of a multi-release arc of work, and that context can be useful to provide. The essence of the Fedora 13 Talking Points is to provide an executive summary of important features from the FeatureList
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For desktop users and everyone
These items are of general interest to most people using F13.
3D Support
In Fedora 12 experimental support for 3D via mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package for ATI cards was made available and has been extended in Fedora 13 to support Nvidia systems via the Nouveau driver
Automatic printer driver installation
Features/AutomaticPrintDriverInstallation
Feature's text description.
Automatic printer driver installation lets you connect a USB printer and install the printer drivers automatically.
Color Management
Feature's text description.
Color Management allows you to better control your colors.
Moblin 2.2
Feature's text description.
Moblin 2.2 enhances your user experience on NetBook, NetTop and other small devices.
For administrators
These talking points concern innovations that help make system administrators' lives better.
NFSv4 Default with IPv6 Support
Features/NFSv4Default Features/NFSClientIPv6
With [NFSv4 http://www.iaps.com/NFSv4-new-features.html] specified in [RFC 3530 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3530.txt] allows for the exporting of a single "pseudo file system."
With NFSv4 Default, the latest version of the NFS protocol is implemented for better performance, and in conjunction with recent kernel modifications allows for IPv6 support.
Feature's text description.
SSSD By Default
System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) text description.
Via SSSD By Default, a major benefit is offline logins.
System Rollback With Btrfs
Features/SystemRollbackWithBtrfs
Feature's text description.
Additional information here:
- http://blogs.igalia.com/aperez/2008/06/more-btrfs-goodness-snapshots/
- http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Getting_started
The System Rollback With Btrfs feature empowers the administrator to be able to have automatic as well as manual full filesystem snapshots, for example each time the yum transactions are processed.
For developers
Here are some innovations that make Fedora a great platform for software developers.
IntelliJ IDEA
Feature's text description.
Feature Summary.
NetBeans 6.8
Feature's text description.
Feature Summary.
Python 3
Feature's text description.
Feature Summary.
Systemtap Static Probes
Features/SystemtapStaticProbes
Feature's text description.
Feature Summary.