Max Spevack wrote: > Given all of the context now available in this thread, Rahul, do you: > > a) feel like we were clear enough about doing this in public? (For the > record, I believe that we were very clear about it in the context of the > marketing meetings, but if you hadn't heard about it until Jack's email, > then something fell through the cracks.) Not your fault. I just haven't been attending the marketing meetings or reading through the logs much. > > b) feel like there is anything either wrong, or missing, from the list? Not sure which ones to highlight more but I can go with the following broader themes and categorize the features including but not limited to the key things in the feature list. ------------ * Desktop - Presto (delta rpms), Ext4, 20 second bootup, Guest user account by default in GNOME (via xguest), KMS improvements (Intel by default which means among other things pretty graphics via plymouth, Nvidia - easy on, AMD already supported in Fedora 10 but improved in Fedora 11) Improvements in system-config-printer at http://cyberelk.net/tim/2009/02/03/screenshots-system-config-printer-11/ SELinux troubleshooter has been partially rewritten in C and the separate boot service has been dropped resulting in much improved performance http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/26053.html Automatic fonts Volume Control, Nouveau (instead of nv 2d driver. 3d support is disable since it is not mature enough) IBus instead of SCIM input method by default, ABRT (automatic desktop crash handler), DeviceKit DRI2 (GL + compiz essentially), rpm 4.7 ((much improved performance and memory footprint). ), Firefox 3.1, Thunderbird 3.0, gnome 2.26, kde 4.2, xfce 4.6, x server 1.6. * Developers - Windows cross compiler (Mingw + lots of cross compiled libraries which is unique), Eclipse profiling tools, debuginfofs, archer (gdb devel branch) . Python 2.6, GCC 4.4, tigervnc * Security - Svirt, stronger hashes, dns security extensions, cups policykit integration, dbus policy changes, system services security daemon, fingerprint improvements, pam gdm changes. * Enterprise - active directory interoperability via openchange, control groups, power management improvements, minimal anaconda installation, minimal text installer. Anaconda storage rewrite. Ext4 is important for enterprise too. GFS2, Much of developer and security stuff is of interest here as well. Supporter arch changes and esp kernel changes http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/02/09/fedora-kernel-packaging/ * Virtualization - Improve console (screenshots at http://blog.wikichoon.com/2009/02/virt-manager-in-fedora-11-new-vm-wizard.html) , vnc auth, KVM PCI device assignment, svirt ------------ Now If I had to pick a few, I would highlight these in no particular order. They show leadership, uniqueness and ability to drive fundamental changes throughout many upstream projects and distribution level improvements as well. Highlights: ---- Ext4, presto, guest user account, 20 sec startup, volume control, new virt-manager with improved console, system-config-printer changes, openchange, control groups, windows cross compiler, desktop crash handler, KMS improvements, Nouveau by default, openchange, svirt, new text mode installer, rpm 4.7 ---- Hope that helps. Rahul -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
