[Fedora-el-list] Fwd: Announcing Fedora 13

Με μεγάλη μου χαρά προωθώ την ανακοίνωση της διαθεσιμότητας του Fedora 13. http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/ http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/fedora/linux/releases/13/ Γνωστοί στις κατά καιρούς συναντήσεις μας λένε "νιώθω ότι πρέπει να δώσω ξανά μια ευκαιρία στο Fedora, έχω πολύ καιρό να το δοκιμάσω". Το F13 είναι μια καλή στιγμή... Τσιμπάς το Live CD ή USB και το δοκιμάζεις. Το νιώθεις. Σ'αρέσει. Μια νέα σχέση γεννιέται... Στην ανακοίνωση μπορεί κανείς να δει όλες τις τελευταίες Linux-ο-εξελίξεις που υιοθετούνται στο Fedora. Ακόμη περισσότερα στα release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Release_Notes/index.html Τέλος, το Fedora 13 διατίθεται και σε διαφορετικές "γεύσεις" για τους εναλλακτικούς: KDE, XFCE, Design, Games, Security... http://spins.fedoraproject.org/?F13an Ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ/μπράβο σε όλους τους εθελοντές που συνεργαστήκαμε για να πετύχουμε ένα ακόμη στόχο. Καλές αναβαθμίσεις! -d ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:03 PM Subject: Announcing Fedora 13 To: Fedora Announcements <announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm proud to announce the release of Fedora 13, the latest innovative Linux distribution from the Fedora Project, a global, collaborative partnership of free software community members sponsored by Red Hat. If you can't wait to get the distribution, simply visit:  http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an If you want a quick tour of highlights in this release, check out:  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an You can also find this announcement text at:  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_announcement?F13an Or read on for loads of information about the new release and all the leading edge technologies we've packed into it.  More links are available at the end of this message, too.  Enjoy! * * * Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 13! Join us and share the joy of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks, virtualization and system administration. == What's New in Fedora 13? == === For desktop users === A universe of new features for end users: * Streamlined Installer. The user interface of Anaconda, the Fedora  installer, has changed to handle storage devices and partitioning in  an easy and streamlined manner, with helpful hints in the right  places. Thanks to Chris Lumens and others on the Anaconda team, and  Máirín Duffy, Fedora Design team lead, for her user interface  review. * Automatic print driver installation. We're using RPM and PackageKit  for automatic installation of printer drivers, so when you plug in a  printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it  if needed. Thanks to Tim Waugh and Richard Hughes. * New desktop applications and enhancements. The Shotwell photo  manager, Deja-dup backup software, Pino Identi.ca/Twitter client,  and Simple Scan scanning utility are all delivered by default to  provide an enhanced desktop experience out of the box. Palimpsest,  the desktop utility for handling storage devices, can now manage LVM  and RAID disks easily. As with the past several releases, Fedora 13  includes enhanced webcam support. Hans de Goede from Red Hat has  specially focussed on better support for dual mode camera's for this  release. * NetworkManager improvements include better Mobile Broadband,  Bluetooth, and new CLI abilities. NetworkManager was introduced in  Fedora 7 and has become the de facto network configuration solution  for distributions everywhere. NetworkManager is now a one-stop shop  for all of your networking needs in Fedora, be it dial-up,  broadband, wifi, or even Bluetooth. In Fedora 13 NetworkManager adds  mobile broadband enhancements to show signal strength; support for  old-style dial-up networking (DUN) over Bluetooth; and command line  support in addition to the improved graphical user interface. Thanks  to Dan Williams of Red Hat for his extensive work on these features  upstream and within Fedora. * Color management. Do you like your printouts to look the same as  they do on screen - or your scanner output to look the same as what  you just scanned? Color Management allows you to better set and  control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners, through  the gnome-color-manager package. Thanks to Richard Hughes from Red  Hat for his involvement upstream and in Fedora. * Enhanced iPod functionality. Newer Apple iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone  models are supported by some of your favorite photo management  software and music library applications such as Rhythmbox. The  devices are automatically attached using the libimobiledevice  library, so you can work with your content more easily. * Enhanced streaming and buffering support in Totem. Totem's Movie  Player and web browser plugins are now better at handling large  streaming media, such as HD movies and Podcasts, thanks to the new  disk-buffering support in GStreamer. * 3D support for ATI cards (R600 and R700) via Radeon driver. In  Fedora 13, 3D support for many ATI cards has moved out of  experimental status and is enabled by default. 2D support for the  latest generation (R800) is integrated as well in this  release. Thanks to Red Hat's Dave Airlie and many others for  involvement upstream and in Fedora. * Experimental 3D graphics support extended to free Nouveau driver for  NVidia cards. This release also adds experimental 3D support to a  wide range of NVidia cards, adding them to the list of liberated  video capabilities. Install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental  package to try out the work in progress. Thanks to Red Hat's Ben  Skeggs for involvement upstream and in Fedora. * KDE improvements. KDE in Fedora continues to provide tight  integration with the latest technologies in Fedora. In this release,  we have improved integration with PulseAudio via Phonon and the  volume control KMix, which controls per-application volumes and  moves application sounds between hardware devices, as well as with  the latest PolicyKit authorization framework. We have also  integrated new major versions, based on the KDE Development Platform  4, of the KOffice office suite, the K3b CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning  application and, for developers, the KDevelop IDE, which provide  better integration with the KDE 4 Plasma Desktop and no longer  require the KDE 3 compatibility libraries. Thanks to the work of a  growing community of KDE contributors in Fedora. * DisplayPort support improvements. Fedora 12 added initial support  for the new DisplayPort display connector for Intel graphics  chips. Support for Nvidia and ATI systems has now been added in this  release. Thanks to Red Hat's Xorg team. * Experimental user management interface. The user account tool has  been completely redesigned, and the accountsdialog and  accountsservice test packages are available to make it easy to  configure personal information, make a personal profile picture or  icon, generate a strong passphrase, and set up login options for  your Fedora system. Try out the work in progress. Thanks to Matthias  Clasen from Red Hat's Desktop team and others. === For developers === For developers there are all sorts of additional goodies: * SystemTap static probes. SystemTap now has expanded capabilities to  monitor higher-level language runtimes like Java, Python, and Tcl,  and also user space applications, starting with PostgreSQL. In the  future, Fedora will add support for even more user space  applications, greatly increasing the scope and power of monitoring  for application developers. Thanks to Mark Wielaard from Red Hat. * Easier Python debugging. We've added new support that allows  developers working with mixed libraries (Python and C/C++) in Fedora  to get more complete information when debugging with gdb, making  Fedora an exceptional platform for powerful, rapid application  development. Thanks to David Malcolm from Red Hat. * Parallel-installable Python 3 stack. The parallel-installable Python  3 stack will help programmers write and test code for use in both  Python 2.6 and Python 3 environments, so you can future-proof your  applications now using Fedora. Thanks to David Malcolm from Red Hat. * NetBeans Java EE 6 support. The NetBeans 6.8 integrated development  environment is the first IDE to offer complete support for the  entire Java EE 6 specification. Thanks to Victor G. Vasilyev from  Sun/Oracle for his maintenance and support of NetBeans in  collaboration with Fedora. * IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, Java IDE. Along with Eclipse and  NetBeans already provided by Fedora, IDEA is a popular Java-based  development environment newly introduced in this release. It comes  with an intuitive GUI, integration with Ant and Maven, extensive  language support, version control systems and test tools integration  and compatibility with Eclipse projects. Thanks to Lubomir Rintel  and Michal Ingeli, Fedora community volunteers, for packaging and  integration of this feature. === For system administrators === And don't think we forgot the system administrators: * boot.fedoraproject.org (BFO). BFO allows users to download a single,  tiny image (could fit on a floppy) and install current and future  versions of Fedora without having to download additional  images. Thanks to Mike McGrath, Fedora Infrastructure lead. * System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). SSSD provides expanded  features for logging into managed domains, including caching for  offline authentication. Now users on laptops can still login when  disconnected from the company's managed network. The authentication  configuration tool in Fedora has already been updated to support  SSSD, and work is underway to make it even more attractive and  functional. Thanks to Stephen Gallagher from Red Hat. * Pioneering NFS features. Fedora offers the latest version 4 of the  NFS protocol for better performance, and, in conjunction with recent  kernel modifications, includes IPv6 support for NFS as well. Thanks  to Steve Dickson from Red Hat. * Zarafa Open Source edition Groupware. Zarafa Open Source edition is  a complete, 100% free and open source groupware suite that can be  used as a drop-in Microsoft Exchange replacement for Web-based mail,  calendaring, collaboration, and tasks. Features include IMAP/POP and  iCal/CalDAV capabilities, native mobile phone support, the ability  to integrate with existing Linux mail servers, a full set of  programming interfaces, and a comfortable look and feel using modern  Ajax technologies. Thanks to Robert Scheck, Fedora community  volunteer, for packaging and integration of this feature. * Btrfs snapshots integration. Btrfs is capable of creating  lightweight, copy-on-write filesystem snapshots that can be mounted  (and booted into) selectively. Automated snapshots allow system  owners to easily revert to a filesystem from the previous day, or  from before a yum update using the yum-plugin-fs-snapshot  plugin. Btrfs is still an experimental filesystem in this release  and requires a "btrfs" installation option to enable support for  it. (This option is only available for non-live images.) Upcoming  releases will integrate the snapshot functionality into the desktop  while working on stabilization of the filesystem in parallel. Thanks  to Josef Bacik, Btrfs filesystem developer at Red Hat, for  filesystem work and the new yum plugin and Chris Ball from OLPC team  for leading this effort. * LVM Snapshots merging support. Recent LVM (and device-mapper)  snapshot advances included in Fedora 13 allow system owners to merge  an LVM snapshot back into the origin. In the process you can  rollback the origin LV to the state it was in before the system  upgrade. As noted earlier, the yum-snapshot-fs-plugin can work with  both Btrfs and LVM volumes exposing this functionality and making it  easier to use. This feature was developed and merged upstream by Red  Hat's storage team. * Virtualization enhancements. Fedora continues its leadership in  virtualization technologies with improvements to KVM such as Stable  PCI Addresses and Virt Shared Network Interface technologies. Having  stable PCI addresses will enable virtual guests to retain PCI  addresses' space on a host machine. The shared network interface  technology enables virtual machines to use the same physical network  interface cards (NICs) as the host operating system. Fedora 13 also  enhances performance of virtualization via VHostNet acceleration of  KVM networking, Virtx2apic for enhanced guest performance on large  multi-processor systems, and Virtio-Serial for simple IO between the  guest and host user spaces. Thanks to the Red Hat virtualization  team for their ongoing contributions. * Dogtag Certificate System Dogtag is an enterprise-class open source  Certificate Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of certificate  lifecycle management including key archival, OCSP and smart card  management. Brought into the fold as part of the Red Hat acquisition  of Netscape technologies, this certificate server is fully free and  open source and now included in Fedora. Thanks to the PKI team at  Red Hat. And that's only the beginning. A more complete list with details of all the new features on board Fedora 13 is available at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList?F13an OK, go get it. You know you can't wait. http://get.fedoraproject.org?F13an If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?F13an In particular, Fedora has made preupgrade a more robust solution and pushed several bug fixes to older releases of Fedora to enable an easy upgrade to Fedora 13. For an quick tour of features in Fedora 13 and pictures of many friends of Fedora, check out our "short-form" release notes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes?F13an Fedora 13 full release notes and guides for several languages are available at: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an Fedora 13 common bugs are documented at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs?F13an === Fedora Spins === Fedora spins are alternate version of Fedora tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application set or customizations. Fedora 13 includes four completely new spins in addition to the several already available, including Fedora Security Lab, Design Suite, Sugar on a Stick and Moblin spin. More information on these spins and much more is available at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/?F13an == Power PC Support == With Apple moving to Intel based machines and Sony PlayStation dropping Linux support, Fedora PowerPC (PPC) usage has dropped considerably. In Fedora 13, PPC is now a secondary architecture and the Fedora release engineering team no longer manages PPC releases. If you would like to participate in the PPC effort or any of the secondary architecture teams, refer to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures?F13an == Contributing == For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/?F13an There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today! == Fedora 14 == Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes to improve the Fedora 13 experience, our next release, Fedora 14, is already being developed in parallel, and has been open for active development for several months already. We have an early schedule for an end of Oct 2010 release: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule?F13an == Contact information == If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press?F13an - -- Paul W. 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