osnews comments
by Max Spevack
There's some good comments in here.
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=18900
I liked this one...
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what people have probably missed in the last few releases is the huge
amount of work on the 'infrastructure' behind fedora in order to get it
to where it is today,
it's clear now that that work is now showing the fruits of fruition and
everything is coming together
* custom spins
* fedora 8 on a usb key
* pulseaudio
* codecbuddy
* yum improvements (yes it's fast)
* packagemanagement improvements (change repos and more)
* gui for firewall
* online desktop
* the whole fedoraproject.org website and associated projects
i think F9 (yes I'm talking about that already) will be awesome, as
it'll most likely have compiz enabled by default plus a whole lot more,
and no doubt it'll have ironed out any bugs still present or yet to be
found in F8
16 years, 5 months
CustomSpins page
by Max Spevack
If someone has time to update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins
to feature the F8 stuff first, and the F7 stuff as now being secondary,
that would be awesome.
We've got Fedora Unity's CD set, etc. etc.
Thanks guys -- congrats on the release!
Best,
Max
16 years, 5 months
Red Hat's Fedora 8 hope: An all-purpose Linux foundation
by Rahul Sundaram
Hi
The efforts that go into remixing Fedora including the new generic-logos
package that allows easy rebranding is being highlighted here.
http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9813113-39.html
"Over the years, Red Hat's Fedora has made a name for itself as a
version of Linux for enthusiasts, developers, and those who want to try
the latest thing in open-source software. But a curious feature of the
new version 8, released Thursday, is the ability to strip out the Fedora
identity altogether.
The reason: Red Hat wants Fedora to be a foundation for those who want
to build their own Linux products on a Fedora foundation. With Fedora 8,
that's easier, because all the Fedora-specific elements are wrapped up
into one neatly optional package, said project leader Max Spevack. "
Rahul
16 years, 5 months
Fedora 8 PDF.
by Michael Beckwith
This is a mass preliminary e-mail to three mailing lists.
What I have done so far with the marketing PDF is get the content and
images laid out and desiring feedback for it at this stage. After I get
some technical critique and suggestions, I'll go ahead and work on
visual presentation.
Some notes that I have that I have seen is:
-a need to seperate some of the feature paragraphs with a line or some
sort of visual blockage so people know where to stop.
-locate where "word divisions" is so that the justification of the text
doesn't string out so much of the words in some areas.
-decorate and also fill the 9th page with technical information.
-find some image to use on the 1st page at the top. A header is needed.
latest PDF: http://tw2113.fedorapeople.org/fed_overview/11-7.pdf
tarball with all files:
http://tw2113.fedorapeople.org/fed_overview/F8-Press-Release.tar.gz
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~Michael
http://ridleytx.structed.net (for now)
http://michaelbox.net (eventually)
16 years, 5 months
Fedora 8 Announce
by pingou
Dear list,
For every release the french team is used to write a small announce for
the Fedora user to be published on websites.
We have decided to translate the announce in english so that those that
would like to present Fedora 8 on their blog or on other website could
do it quit easily.
The translation is far from perfect, so I would advice you to have a
look at it and to correct what needs to be.
Hope it helps,
Best regards,
P.Yves
The announce is past as text here and attached as .odt with this email
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Announce Fedora 8
On this autumn period where the best fruit are matured, it comes the
time to harvest the new Fedora release.
This new Fedora is named “WereWolf”, but do not be afraid this release
will bring you all the safety and stability that you could dream of.
The main point of this new version is without any doubt
SIMPLICITY
After 5 months of intense work, and in order to provide you the latest
technologies, this new release will be for you as for us a major evolution.
The major new features are (among others):
Codek Buddy (aka codeina) :
By default Fedora does not provide non free codecs. This is sometime a
problem for the end users who has to install them on their own. This is
the reason why Codec Buddy has been created. This tool is able to help
you to install the required codecs to helps you to listen to your MP3 or
watch your movies, in a very simple way.
PulseAudio: (NTBR)
Fedora 8 provides the last generation of sound server. The goal is to
offer to the music fan a great improvement to the support of low
latency. The new technology opens the gate to new functionalities like
decrease automatically the volume of the noise when you are watching a
movie.
System-config-firewall :
This new interface is much more accessible for the new Fedora users. It
is a very intuitive interface thanks to its step by step configuration.
System-config-selinux :
Nowadays, the configuration of SELinux is distinct from the one of the
firewall, in a new user friendly interface.
System-config-printer : (NTBR)
The printer configuration system has also been changed. During the
installation, it will now create automatically the printing queue, this
is the end of the steps where so much users has failed on the past.
NetworkManager 0.7 :
Entirely rewritten in order to satisfy to the wired and wireless
network, giving a higher speed of connection and a better integration
(thanks among other to the Dbus API and the WPA for the wireless).
Better laptop support :
Thanks to the information returned by “smolt” the Fedora team has
improved the management of the Suspend to Ram and Suspend to Disk
system, and the recognition of the multimedia keys on the keyboard.
Package management :
Pirut (a GUI for yum, the package manager) has been updated in order to
meet the users' demand. It is now able to manage directly the
repositories from this GUI, simplifying a lot the work of new users.
Fedora 8's theme :
For each new Fedora release a new theme is created. For Fedora 8, the
icons, the windows' border have also been changed to fit the theme. This
project is named “Nodoka”.
The desktop background is named “Infinity”. You could say, “yes, well it
is just a new desktop background”, however the main innovation for this
background is that it changes over the day, from the blue in the morning
to a relax and peacefull purple on the evening.
Virtualization :
Virtualization is an important part that more and more people use,
within this new release, virtualization has also evolved. The safety has
been greatly improved thanks to a new library that allows you to use the
SSL/TLS protocol to secure your access. The other modifications are on
the graphical interface of virt-manager, more user friendly and
providing the last functionalities.
FEL (Fedora Electronic Lab) :
This new product made in Fedora has been created by the SIG (Special
Interest Group) “embedded”. This project try to implement as much
applications as possible. This software and tools are focus on a
electronic theme in order to provide a live-cd to universities.
For the developers, we did not forget that the last version of eclipse
3.3 is available for Fedora. This new version provides a lot of new
functions:
JDT : for Java development.
CDT : Editor, builder and debugger for C and C++.
Autotools : plugin for CDT to support autoconf, and automake (among others).
Mylyn : first interface that allows the developers to request the
Bugzilla's database.
PHPEclipse : plugin for PHP development of test.
Specfile editor : plugin for the SpecFiles for RPM creation.
PyDev : plugin for Python
...
In order to get this new release, you can go to this page :
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
The Fedora ambassador, from the FedoraProject.
16 years, 5 months
