Hi,
I just listened to the review at
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZUm0A_jBwc
and wanted to offer some comments to help you folks understand the
changes better.
Theme: Bryan didn't like the Nodoka changes (in particular the window
border) but both of you liked the solar theme very much. Not much to add
on Nodoka except that I am CC'ing the Martin Sourada, Nodoka theme
developer if you want to have a more direction discussion.
Plymouth: Fedora up until Fedora 9, included rhgb or Red Hat Graphical
Boot. This has been replaced by Plymouth. You can find more information
about this at
http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-startup/
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_plymouth&num=1
The software itself is at
http://freedesktop.org/software/plymouth/releases/
The gist of it, is that instead of starting a complete X server early at
bootup, we now use a related feature called "Kernel Mode Setting".
http://keithp.com/blogs/kernel-mode-drivers/
KMS requires extensive changes in X and Kernel that Red Hat is working
on but this is not complete yet. For Fedora 10, only some ATI Radeon
chipsets use KMS and get the new cool bootup shown at
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=7p2x0g-Cuss
Intel originally had it but there is some major rewrite going on
currently but it will likely be supported in an update. Similar
situation for Nvidia as well. So for chipsets where KMS is not
supported, we fallback to using a simple fade effect plugin. My guess
is that, Chris has a ATI card when testing the live CD while Bryan used
a Nvidia card with the DVD installer and that resulted in differences in
the bootup rather than the image itself.
While we will continue to offer the choice of a regular DVD installation
image ( it is quite useful for redistribution and several other use
cases), the current plan is to promote the live cd/ live usb more. You
can find a mockup at
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/webdesign/get-fedora/
Installer: You remarked that the installer has not changing much. That
is more or less true as far as the general interface is concerned but I
would like to point out the integration of NetworkManager in Anaconda
and some differences as a result of that
Also you don't have to manually enter a mirror anymore if you are doing
a network installation. We use the same mirror list that yum itself uses.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10preview/en_US/What_is_New_for_Installation_and_Live_Images.html#sn-Changes_in_Anaconda
PulseAudio glitch-free audio details is explained at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GlitchFreeAudio
Additional references on Fedora 10 changes:
http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/10-reasons-youll-love-fedora-10/
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fedora-10-a-detailed-discussion-on-the-features/
http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/11/07/five-features-of-fedora-ten/
Rahul
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