Fedora 11 tour

Welcome to Fedora 11

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Fedora 11 Release Summary

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Screenshots

The Fedora 11 Screenshot Tour includes what's new and exciting in pictorial form. Enjoy the new KDE 4.2.2, Thunderbird 3, Firefox 3.5 or the new PulseAudio volume controls.

Videos

New Bootup Sequence

Plymouth includes a new bootup sequence. It's called 'Charge' created by Mike Langlie and Ray Strode. Plymouth themes can be created easily now that the plugins have been separated out from the core plymouth code.

Ogg-Theora Video

In-depth feature profiles

• Features/20SecondStartup 20 Second Startup Make Fedora boot and shut down faster. The goal is to be at the login screen in 20 seconds and then to be as fast as possible after the login (gnome-session).
• Features/AnacondaStorageRewrite Anaconda Storage Rewrite New storage code to use udev for detection of block devices and rewritten modules for management of partitions (pyparted), LVM, Software RAID, and block device encryption (pycryptsetup). The rewrite does not change the user interface.
• Features/Archer Archer Archer is a gdb development branch focusing on better C++ support. It also includes Python scripting capabilities.
• Features/ArchitectureSupport Supported Architectures Change supported architectures and default installed kernels. 32bit x86 binaries will be rebuilt for i586. The PAE kernel will be used on 32-bit hardware, where appropriate.
• Features/AutoFontsAndMimeInstaller Automatic Fonts & Mime Installer Allows programs on the desktop to automatically install applications, fonts, multimedia codecs and clipart.
• Features/ControlGroups ControlGroups Allows system administrator to partition the system resources into different sub groups, and dedicate these sub groups resources to different applications' need.
• Features/ABRT ABRT Automatic Bug Reporting Tool: Help non-power users with bug reporting, making it as easy as a few mouse clicks
• Features/CupsPolicyKitIntegration Cups PolicyKit Integration Use PolicyKit to define policies for accessing the cups functionality. Cups policies can be configured with the same tools that are used for other PolicyKit-enabled parts of the system.
• Features/DBusPolicy DBusPolicy Increase security settings of DBus
• Features/DeviceKit DeviceKit A simple, modular system service to manage devices and designed to partially replace hal. Users gain a graphical disk management application called palimpsest which integrates nicely into the desktop.
• Features/DNSSEC DNS Security DNSSEC (DNS SECurity) is mechanism which can prove integrity and authenticity of DNS data.
• Features/DRI2 DRI2 Improve Direct Rendering Infrastructure
• Features/EclipseProfilingTools Eclipse Profiling Tools Add the power of various native profiling tools into the Eclipse IDE and integrate with the rest of the development environment. Specifically add Linux Tools, OProfile, and Valgrind integration.
• Features/Evdev2.2 Evdev2.2 Update to version 2.2 of the X.Org X11 evdev driver (xorg-x11-drv-evdev)
• Features/Ext4DefaultFs ext4 Default file system Make ext4 the default files system for anaconda-driven installs (replacing ext3). User should notice generally better performance, and benefit from things like persistent preallocation when using updated torrent clients, etc.
• Features/Fingerprint Fingerprint Better Out-of-the-box experience for systems with fingerprint readers. Support for one more piece of frequently found hardware. Configuration now available through graphical Authentication Configuration (authconfig).
• Features/Firefox_3.1 Firefox 3.1 Upgrade Firefox to the latest release in the Mozilla 1.9.1 series (Firefox 3.1).
• Features/gcc4.4 gcc 4.4 Switch GCC in Fedora 11 to 4.4.x Rebuild all packages with gcc 4.4.x
• Features/GFS2Stable GFS2 A cluster filesystem allowing simultaneous access to shared storage from multiple nodes and designed for SAN environment.
• Features/Gnome2_26 Gnome 2.26 Update to Gnome 2.26 to ensure that Fedora stays in sync with the upstream version of the Gnome desktop. The user experience should be largely unchanged.
• Features/IBus IBus A new default input method framework under active development which is designed to overcome the limitations of SCIM.
• Features/InputDeviceProperties InputDeviceProperties X server 1.6 input devices provide a generic mechanism to change driver settings at runtime. The same mechanism may be used by applications to store information directly on device.
• Features/IntelKMS IntelKMS Enable kernel modesetting by default for Intel chipsets.
• Features/K12Linux K12Linux Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP.org) was integrated into Fedora 10, in a convenient LiveUSB or DVD media installer. Now updated for Fedora 11.
• Features/KDE42 KDE4.2 Rebase to KDE 4.2 and offer new features such as PolicyKit-KDE, NetworkManager plasma applet etc. -03-04
• Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment KVM PCI Device Assignment Assign PCI devices from your KVM host machine to guest virtual machines.
• Features/KVM_and_QEMU_merge KVM and QEMU Merge Combine the kvm and qemu packages into a single package
• Features/MinimalPlatform Minimal Platform Enable small installations for a server or desktop appliance
• Features/NetBeans_6.5 NetBeans 6.5 NetBeans IDE 6.5 is a significant update of NetBeans IDE 6.1 which ensures that the latest version is available to developers.
• Features/NewTextUI NewTextUI A simplified and easier to maintain Text UI installer for Anaconda. Text mode is now the truly minimal install experience that a lot of people have requested.
• Features/NouveauAsDefault Nouveau as Default Make Nouveau the default driver for NVIDIA graphics chipsets.
• Features/NouveauModesetting Nouveau Modesetting Currently, modes are initialised by the 2D driver on X server startup. Kernel Modesetting (KMS) moves all of this into the kernel.
• Features/OpenChange OpenChange Natively access Microsoft Exchange using OpenChange.
• Features/MultiplePAMStacksInGDM PAM GDM Improve GDM's interaction with PAM so that it works with multiple simultaneous stacks at once.
• Features/PowerManagement Power Management Improve the current state of power management, especially in regard to userland.
• Features/Presto Presto The presto plugin for yum adds support for downloading deltarpms and using them to generate new packages.
• Features/Python_2.6 Python 2.6 Include Python 2.6 in Fedora.
• Features/Radeon3DUpdate Radeon3DUpdate Update the radeon r100/r200 3D drivers to work with kernel modesetting and DRI2.
• Features/RPM4.7 rpm 4.7Update RPM to 4.7 in Fedora 11 to benefit from performance enhancements
• Features/SSSD System Security Services Daemon Provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms.
• Features/StrongerHashes Stronger Hashes Support hashes stronger than MD5 and SHA-1.
• Features/SVirt_Mandatory_Access_Control SVirt Mandatory Access Control sVirt integrates SELinux with the Fedora virtualization stack to allow Mandatory Access Control (MAC) security be applied to guest virtual machines.
• Features/SynapticsUpdate Synaptics UpdateUpdate Fedora to ship xorg-x11-drv-synaptics version 1.x.
• Features/Thunderbird_3 Thunderbird 3 Upgrade Thunderbird to the latest release in the Mozilla 1.9.1 series which is Thunderbird 3 .
• Features/TigerVNC TigerVNC Make TigerVNC the default VNC client in Fedora.
• Features/EFI UEFI provide a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications.
• Features/VirtImprovedConsole Virt Improved Consoleimprove the user experiance for virtual guests' graphical console, by providing an accurate mouse pointer and higher screen resolution, without requiring manual configuration.
• Features/VirtVNCAuth Virt VNC Authentication A mapping of SASL authentication into the VNC protocol for QEMU and GTK-VNC.
• Features/VolumeControl VolumeControl The multimedia experience of Fedora users is improved by an easily understandable and much more flexible volume control model.
• Features/Windows_cross_compiler Windows Cross-compiler Build and test full-featured Windows programs, from the comfort of the Fedora system, without needing to use Windows.
• Features/Xfce46 Xfce4.6 Update Xfce to the upstream 4.6 release with many new improvements and features.
• Features/XserverOnePointSix Xserver 1.6 Update the X server in to 1.6