Introduction to Fedora and What's new in Fedora 11 and Fedora 12? Rahul Sundaram Fedora 11 Release Party, Pune, India Sat July 4 th 2009

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 installable software packages ● Rapid progress of free and open source softwaare

Four Foundations of Fedora ● Freedom ● Friends ● Future ● First ● (Fun!)

Rapid Innovation ● NetworkManager ● SELinux ● PulseAudio ● PackageKit ● Plymouth ● DeviceKit

Fedora – Then and Now ● Fedora - Then ● Fedora Core – Red Hat Only – Internal infrastructure – Update system with announcements – Freezes ● Fedora Extras – Anybody – Not on release media – No announcements for updates and no freezes ● Fedora - Now ● No 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 X0 ● Fedora Electronics Lab ● MythDora ● Livecd tools and Pungi ● Revisor ● Branding

Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ● Fedora ● Community Project ● Will always be free and open source ● Rapid innovation – Community 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 2500 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

What's New in Fedora 11? ● 20 second startup time, Plymouth improvements and Kernel Mode Support ● Nouveau as the default driver for Nvidia cards ( No 3D support yet!) ● Ext4 as default filesystem. Btrfs tech preview ● Presto Yum Plugin for Delta RPM's ● GDM and GNOME finger print integration ● Windows Cross Compiler (MinGW + cross compiled packages) ● Automatic font and mime installer via PackageKit ● Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0 pre releases and Openoffice.org 3.1 ● Improved I18N support via Ibus input method ● Virtualization and Security enhancements ● RPM 4.7, GNOME 2.26, KDE 4.2, Xfce 4.6, Linux Kernel , Python 2.6. GCC 4.4 and several other changes.

Gotchas ! ● Anaconda storage layer rewrite ● No GRUB support for Ext4 yet ● GNOME Power Manager is moody ● Pulse Audio Volume Control integration warts ● Intel Graphics drive issues ● fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs

Fedora 12 ● ● Short release cycle - Nov – ETA ● I686 and Presto by default ● XZ (LZMA) compression in RPM ● Pulse Audio integration improvements ● Empathy as default Instant messenger ● NetworkManager – system wide,Ipv6 support ● Multi seat ● SystemTap Static Probes ● PolicyKit 1.0, liblvm, debug info filesystem, kernel

Gotchas ! ● Anaconda storage layer rewrite ● No GRUB support for Ext4 yet ● GNOME Power Manager is moody ● Pulse Audio Volume Control integration warts ● Intel Graphics drive issues ● fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs

Questions? mether on #fedora-india