April 24, 2009 at 02:28Fedora 11: Preview
Fedora 11 is slated for release May 26, but beta is available now.
I suppose a review of the most interesting innovations in my opinion (under the cut).
- Download in 20 seconds. Of course, this time is averaged and it will greatly depend on the performance of your processor and disk subsystem, but judging by the tables with tests, loading can take from 9 to 60 seconds.
- Programmers in c ++ will be pleased with Archer - a modification of GDB with improved support for debugging multi-threaded applications and the ability to write scripts in Python
- PackageKit integration with applications. Allows applications to install the necessary codecs, programs, and fonts
- User-friendly volume control, tighter integration with ALSA and PulseAudio. Now there will be no sliders for devices that you don’t have
- ext4 is now the default file system when installed via Anaconda
- DNSsec - Protection against DNS spoofing by checking DNS server certificates
- DeviceKit - Computer device management system (+ frontend). For the user, it will mainly simplify the work with disk devices
- Improved support for fingerprint readers. Now more such devices are supported and all authentication dialogs (not only in gdm / kdm)
- ABRT - Automatic Bug Report System. Simplifies the process of sending a bug report for an ordinary user
- ControlGroups - System for sharing system resources between processes and process groups
- GFS2 - Distributed File System
- Configuring input devices without restarting the X server
- Possibility of minimal installation. The root file system with this installation option will occupy less than 500 megabytes. The list of packages included in the installation can be viewed here.
- Fedora Electronic Lab is a 70% completed project (as of March 1, 2009) for the development and testing (emulation of work) of iron. It promises to be very powerful and include everything from the development and testing of the circuit, the layout of the board to the programming of microcontrollers.
- Well, as always, updating package versions. Waiting for us: KDE 4.2, Gnome 2.26, Xfce 4.6, OpenOffice.org 3.1.0, Xserver 1.6, rpm 4.7
PS Forgive and correct if I messed up with Rusik;)
UPD: transferred to Fedora blog