Jesse Keating LinuxFest Northwest 2009 Fedora 11 Sneak Peak Jesse Keating LinuxFest Northwest 2009

Feature Process Open Submission Review by Fedora Engineering Steering committee Cull the silly like “Add mp3 support!” or “Switch to the Hurd Kernel!” Require useful things like release notes material and contingency plans Test Days

20 Second Startup Identify and correct delays during bootup Goal to be at login screen within 20 seconds of boot loader Bootchart

Anaconda Storage Rewrite Massive overhaul of code 119 files changed, 19083 insertions(+), 13025 deletions(-) Easier to support new storage technology Easier to fix bugs More use of system libraries

Architecture Support 32bit x86 is now compiled i586 by default 32bit x86 has i586 kernel and PAE kernel F12 (or 13) may go to i686 only

PackageKit Desktop Integration Automated Fonts and Mime installer Easy to support with 3rd party repos

DeviceKit System Service Enumerate Devices Emit signals when devices are added/removed Manage quirks for devices Partially replaces hal DeviceKit-disks DeviceKit-power Palimpsest GUI

ext4 Default Filesystem Delayed allocation Sub-second timestamps >2TB files Journal checksumming Generally better performance Ponies

Fingerprint Reader Support Much easier to use Graphically record fingerprints Graphically enable fingerprint auth

Firefox / Thunderbird 3(.1)

gcc-4.4 Nearly all packages rebuilt More ponies

Gnome 2.26 Mostly unchanged Lots of bug fixes Brasero replaces nautilus-cd-burner gponies

KDE 4.2 Less/no deps on gnome components PowerDevil for power management kponies

Intelligent Input Bus Replaces scim Uses dbus to communicate, more stable 小马

Intel Kernel Modesetting Graphical Bootup Less mode changes

Nouveau Mode Setting Nouveau as default for nvidia cards

OpenChange Native MAPI library Evolution support

Presto DeltaRPMS Significant download savings

RPM 4.7 Yes, really a new upstream RPM release! Significant memory savings Much faster file fingerprinting sha256 file checksuming Nearly every package rebuilt

s/sha1/sha256 sha1 isn't “safe” enough for US Gov. sha256 used instead Many changes were made to make this type of thing easier in the future

Volume Control Flat Volumes Very simple “mixer” Fallback mixer will be available

Many many more at https://fedoraproject