Regards
Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
What is the Beta Release?
The beta release is the last important milestone before the
release of Fedora 20. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a
very strong resemblance to the third and final release. Only critical
bug fixes will be pushed as updates up to the general release of
Fedora 20. The final release of Fedora 20 is
expected
in early December.
If you do not as yet have a
copy, here
is where you go to fetch one.
We need your help to make Fedora 20 the best release yet, so
please take some time to download and try out the beta and make sure
the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug,
please
report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the
experience for
millions of
Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora 20 a rock-solid
distribution. We have a culture of coordinating new features and
pushing fixes
upstream
as much as feasible and your feedback will help improve not only
Fedora but Linux and free software on the whole. (See
the
end of this announcement for more information on how to help.)
Are
you sure there are millions?
10
Years of Fedora
The Fedora 20 release coincides nicely with the 10th anniversary
of Fedora. The first Fedora release (then called Fedora Core 1)
came
out on November 6, 2003.
Since then, the Fedora Project has become an active and vibrant
community that produces
nearly
a dozen "spins" (
A
spin is a specially assembled version of Fedora. Refer
to the Spin topic below for more info ) that are tailor made for desktop
users, hardware design, gaming, musicians, artists, and
early
classroom environments.
For
non Fedora users or first time readers, it is good idea to explain
of what constitutes a spin Refer them to the Spin Paragraph/section.
ARM
as a Primary Architecture
While Fedora has supported a number of hardware architectures over
the years, x86/x86_64 has been the default for the majority of Fedora
users and for the Linux community in general.
ARM, however, has been making massive technological
strides as a computer hardware
architecture. It
already dominates the mobile market, and is becoming a go-to platform
for hobbyists and makers,
and is showing enormous promise for the server market as well.
Please qualify what you mean
by “and makers”. Do you mean and computer hardware makers?
NetworkManager
Improvements
NetworkManager is getting several improvements in Fedora 20 that
will be welcome additions for power users and system administrators.
Please
remove “now” as
it is superfluous.
NetworkManager is also getting support for
bonding
interfaces and
bridging
interfaces. Bonding and bridging are used in many enterprise
setups and are necessary for virtualization and fail-over scenarios.
No
Default Sendmail, Syslog
Fedora 20 removes some services that many users find unnecessary,
though (of course) they will remain available as installable packages
for users who might need them.
Consider rephrasing to..
OS Installer Support for LVM
Thin Provisioning
LVM
has introduced thin provisioning technology, which provides
greatly improved snapshot functionality in addition to thin
provisioning capability. This
lvm
change will make it possible to configure thin
provisioning during OS installation.
Please
add lvm (without bolding) between "This will" so that This refers to lvm and not
the “improved snapshot functionality” or do you mean both
changes. In that case put These changes will make it possible to.....
VM
Snapshot UI with virt-manager
This
change will make taking VM snapshots much easier. qemu and
libvirt have all the major pieces in place for performing safe VM
snapshots/checkpoints, however there isn't any simple discoverable
UI. This feature will track adding that UI to virt-manager, and any
other virt stack bits that need to be fixed/improved. This includes
adding functionality to libvirt to support deleting and
re-basing
to external snapshots.
Is
it a change or a new feature? And if it is a change, what is the
change? Note. Here you got it right as... after “This” you included
“feature”.
Rebasing -->re-basing.
Developer Goodies.
Should the list of goodies be
indented to show all of what Goodies includes?
Note
on performance
Fedora development releases use a kernel
with
extra debug information to help us understand and resolve issues
faster; however, this can have a significant impact on performance.
Refer to
the
kernel debug strategy for more details. You can boot with
slub_debug=- or use the kernel from nodebug repository to disable the
extra debug info.
Replace “with” with the word
“containing”. The debug information is not next to the kernel,
it is within the kernel.
Heisenbug
Alpha is a
testing release. To report issues encountered during testing, contact
the Fedora QA team via the
test
mailing list or in #fedora-qa on freenode.
Ḑon't
you mean Heisenburg Beta.
The changes in this text are slightly more recent than the attached document.