A Fedora Core 4 proto-schedule is available at:
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/
Generally, it's 3 4-week test releases, with a release in early/mid May.
So, what's planned for Fedora Core 4? Here's what we're looking at from the Red Hat side of things:
- GCC 4, if it's ready
We're not planning on holding for it, but if it's out in a reasonable time, sure. Failing that, we're looking at making more of the FORTIFY_SOURCE and other gcc & glibc security extensions integrated, if at all possible.
- The usual new stuff - GNOME 2.10, KDE 3.4, Xorg 6.8.2, OpenOffice 2.0 (maybe), etc.
- Xen and Virtualization
This starts by integrating the Xen kernel stuff, and going from there.
- SELinux Episode III: Revenge of the AVC
Yet more targets in the targeted policy.
- Faster boot
Eliminating redundancy and old cruft in the bootup process, starting GDM early if possible, using newer and faster udev codebases, and other related tweaks.
- Java
More native-compiled GCJ stuff. Including Eclipse.
- Package management
GUI integration of system-config-packages, yum, and friends.
- more networking changes
Further integration of NetworkManager
- PPC support
For your brand spanking new MiniMac, or the p655 under your desk.
- Extras at launch time. Or else.
Hopefully, self explanatory. Could coincide with the move of some bits from Core to Extras. In fact, some of the stuff on this list of features may *be* in Extras.
Probably other stuff that I'm forgetting in here. I'm sure more people can remind me.
More complete bi-arch support on 64-bit at least AMD64? On FC3, at least /usr/include/kde/arts/gsl/gslconfig.h in arts-devel (.i386 and .x86_64) conflict, after inspecting both, one of the #defines differs, so it's not only a packaging problem. But I have seen other headers that include arch dependent stuff from /usr/include/asm-i386 or /usr/include/asm-x86_64, respectively.
Ultimately, I would like to be able to install both <package>-libs
and <package>-devel as the latter may contain static libs in either /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. Maybe there should be a <package>-headers
that contains the common stuff between the arch dependent -devel RPM.
Hm. Anaconda or firstboot support to install all the .i386 versions of the above on x86-64 would be nice. I don't mind downloading all the 2x N disks for FC4, I installed both versions of FC3 on different machines, too.
Best regards, Zoltán Böszörményi
