[Fedora Project Wiki] Update of "Docs/Beats/OverView" by RahulSundaram

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   * CodecBuddy is now included, and promotes free, superior quality, open formats to end users trying to play multimedia content under patent encumbered or proprietary formats.
  
-  * [http://www.opencompositing.org/ Compiz Fusion], the compositing window manager that re-merges Compiz and Beryl, is installed by default. To enable Compiz in GNOME, use the ''System'' > ''Preferences'' > ''Desktop Effects'' tool. Ongoing, long term [http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007/Notes Xorg work] continues to enable [http://hoegsberg.blogspot.com/2007/08/compiz-and-fedora.html Compiz] by default. 
+  * , is installed by default. To enable Compiz in GNOME, use the ''System'' > ''Preferences'' > ''Desktop Effects'' tool. Ongoing, long term [http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007/Notes Xorg work] continues to enable [http://hoegsberg.blogspot.com/2007/08/compiz-and-fedora.html Compiz] by default. 
  
   * The completely free and open source Java environment called IcedTea is installed by default.  IcedTea is derived from OpenJDK, includes a browser plugin based on GCJ, and is available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. GCJ is still the default on PPC architecture. 
  
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   * A brand new graphical firewall configuration tool, ''system-config-firewall'', replaces ''system-config-securitylevel''.
  
-  * This release offers [http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/13376.html Kiosk] functionality via SELinux, among many new enhancements and security policy changes.
+  * This release offers [http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/13376.html Kiosk] functionality via SELinux, among many new enhancements and security policy changes. We now have merged improvements from the strict policy to a single targeted policy package and a separate strict policy is not available in Fedora anymore.  
  
   * The `glibc` package in Fedora 8 now has [http://people.redhat.com/drepper/sha-crypt.html support] for passwords using SHA256 and SHA512 hashing.  Before only DES and MD5 were available.  The tools to create passwords have not been extended yet, but if such passwords are created in others ways, `glibc` will recognize and honor them.
  

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