whats new in f14?
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Who am I?
Promoter of Creative CommonsFOSS AdvocateTech teacher do peopleneed a lab for an event?---Fedora AmbassadorCo-Founder GidgetKitchenCommunity Manager- Zareason
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Mark TerranovaPenLUGDecember 8, 2010
Fun Stuff
What's new in Fedora 14
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Mark TerranovaPenLUGDecember 8, 2010
Quick Facts
New release every six months
Free and open source applications only
Free and open source infrastructure
Red Hat is the primary sponsor
Maintained by volunteers largely (~70%)
Nearly 15,000 installable software packages
Rapid progress of free and open source software
Four Foundations of Fedora
Freedom
Friends
Features
First
Rapid Innovation
NetworkManager
SELinux
PulseAudio
PackageKit
Plymouth
DeviceKit
ABRT: Automatic Bug Reporting Tool
Fedora Then and Now
Fedora - ThenFedora CoreRed Hat Only
Internal infrastructure
Update system with announcements
Freezes
Fedora ExtrasAnybody
Not on release media
No announcements for updates and no freezes
Fedora - NowNo Core/Extras
Just Fedora
Open infrastructure
Public participation
Subset of packages on install media
Over half a dozen official spins
Spins and Remixes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OLPC XO / SoaS / Education Spin
Moblin
Fedora Design Suite
KDE / LXDE / Xfce
Fedora Security Lab
Fedora Electronics Lab
Roll your own: http://spins.fedoraproject.org
Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Fedora
Community Project
Will always be free and open sourceRapid innovationCommunity maintained and supported
Over 15,000 packages
New release every six months and each release maintained for about 13 months
Updates include new features frequently
Create value
RHEL Commercial open source product sold under subscription
Red Hat maintained and supported
Small subset of Fedora about 2,500 packages
New releases every 2 to 3 years and supported for 7 years
Updates focused on security and bug fixes only with selected backporting of new features
Derive value
Whats new in Fedora 14?
Spice: Provides a complete open source solution for interaction with virtualized desktops and provides high-quality remote access to QEMU virtual machines.
Mobility options: Fedora 14 includes software from the MeeGo project which is designed to support platforms such as netbooks, nettops, and various embedded devices
Amazon EC2: For the first time since Fedora 8, Fedora will release on the EC2 cloud.
D Compiler: Support for D, a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python
3D improvements to free Nouveau driver
Perl updated to 5.12
Python updated to 2.7
KDE version 4.5
NetBeans updated to version 6.9
Whats new in Fedora 14
for system administrators/developers?
OpenSCAP security tool
Xen to KVM migration
NetBeans 6.9
Parallel-installable Python 3 stack (held over from Fedora 13)
Xen kernel support
Varnish update to 2.1.3
GNUStep support
Language-specific features for Ada, C, C++, Fortran and Java
Kernel 2.6.35 at time of release Nov. 2
Fedora 14 architectures
x86: AMD, Cyrix, Intel and VIA (i686)
200 MHz Pentium Pro or better for text mode
400 MHz Pentium Pro or better for graphical mode
X86-64 requirements
256 MB RAM for text mode
512 MB RAM for graphical mode
512 MB or higher recommended
PowerPC
Old and New World PowerPC (Old World with BootX)
PlayStation 3 and Genesi Pegasos II
Questions?
#fedora on FreeNodeMarkDude on #[email protected]
Slides are available @http://www.slideshare.net/markterranova/F14
Thanks to Larry Cafiero for the slides, and Zareason for the badges