Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Fedora Project Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by PaulFrields: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/OverView?action=diff&rev2=307&rev1=306 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Xfce [[GetVal(DocsDict,XfceVer)]] is available as part of this release. - * NetworkManager 0.7 provides improved wireless network management support. It includes support for multiple devices and provides the capability of system-wide configuration, among many other enhancements. + * NetworkManager 0.7 provides ... * [http://www.pulseaudio.org/ PulseAudio] is now installed and enabled by default. Pulse''''''Audio is an advanced sound server compatible with nearly all existing Linux sound systems. Pulse''''''Audio allows for hot-switching audio outputs, individual volume controls for each audio stream, networked audio, and more. - - * 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. * Compiz, the compositing window manager that brings eye candy and usability improvements to the desktop, is installed by default, and is easily enabled by both GNOME and KDE users via the ''Preferences'' > ''Desktop Effects'' tool from the Fedora team. While Compiz is not yet robust or mature enough to be enabled by default, ongoing, long term [http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007/Notes Xorg work] by Fedora developers continues, so we can enable [http://hoegsberg.blogspot.com/2007/08/compiz-and-fedora.html Compiz] by default in the next release. @@ -42, +40 @@ * 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. - * Openoffice.org 2.3, with many [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/New_Features_2.3 new features], is available as part of Fedora 8. + * Openoffice.org 2.4, with many [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/New_Features_2.4 new features], is available as part of Fedora [[GetVal(DocsDict,BeatsVer)]]. * Bluetooth devices and tools now have better graphical and system integration. * Laptop users benefit from the "quirks" features in HAL, including better suspend/resume and multimedia keyboard support. - * There is now improved power management thanks to both a tickless kernel in `x86` and `x86_64` architectures, and a reduction in unnecessary processor wakeups via `powertop`. + * Eclipse 3.3.1 is available as part of this release. - * This release of Fedora has a new look and feel, called [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes/Infinity/Round3Final Infinity], from the Fedora Art community team. + * [http://www.packagekit.org/ PackageKit], a new set of graphical and console tools for cross-distribution software management, is installed by default in this release of Fedora. Behind Package``Kit, the performance of `yum` has been significantly improved. '''Pup''' and '''Pirut''' are still available in the software repositories for users that prefer them. - * [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/NodokaTheme Nodoka], a fresh new GNOME theme created specially for Fedora, is available in this release. - - * A new online browser home page, http://start.fedoraproject.org, appears in this release. - - * Fedora continues to improve its many proactive [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/Features security features], and FORTIFY_SOURCE has now been [https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2007-September/msg00015.html enhanced] to cover C++ in addition to C, which prevents many security exploits. - - * 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 eliminates the separate strict SELinux policy, since improvements from the strict policy have been merged to a single targeted policy package. - - * 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. - - * Secure remote management capability is now provided for Xen, KVM, and QEMU in Fedora 8 [http://berrange.com/personal/diary/2007/08/fedora-8-virtualization-work-in virtualization]. - - * Eclipse 3.3 (Europa), a new release of the acclaimed development platform, is available as part of this release. - - * In this release, the performance of `yum`, '''Pirut''', and '''Pup''' have been significantly improved. - - * The '''Add/Remove Programs''' tool, `pirut`, introduces a new graphical interface for managing software repositories. Use ''Edit'' > ''Repositories'' to enable/disable any of the installed software repositories. - * Live installations are faster and require a smaller root filesystem. The file system layout has also changed somewhat. System files for the Live images are now under `LiveOS/`, and a new `README` file has been provided as a short introduction to the live image. * [https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/transifex/ Transifex] provides a web-based translation interface to allow users to contribute translation work for Fedora hosted projects as well as being able to provide translations to upstream directly to any upstream project. @@ -82, +60 @@ * The `pam_console` module usage has been removed in favor of access control via HAL, which modernizes the desktop. + * Fedora [[GetVal(DocsDict,BeatsVer)]] features a [[GetVal(DocsDict,KernelVer)]] based kernel. - * Fedora 8 features a 2.6.23 based kernel. - - * Fedora now includes support for Nepali Language, extending its reach to many more users. === Road Map === -- Fedora-relnotes-content mailing list Fedora-relnotes-content@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-relnotes-content
