Jesse Keating Linux Fest Northwest 2008 Fedora 9 Sneak Peek Jesse Keating Linux Fest Northwest 2008

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

“Hot Plug” X On the fly resolution changing Detection of new devices Drag around multihead support

Upstart Replacement for SysVInit Allows event driven services Service monitoring / restarting Currently using SysVInit compat mode

Encrypted Filesystems cryptesetup and LUKS Checkbox at install time Anything but /boot Wide range of possible configurations

Partition Resizing Install time resizing FAT Ext2,3 NTFS

Firefox 3 (Beta 5) Beta 5 Snapshots to final after release Runs on xulrunner Much faster, lower memory consumption Better “native” integration Printing dialog File navigation Icon theme

Xulrunner Provide Gecko engine for applications Split browser away for better API/ABI stability

GDM Session agents in greeter Gnome-power-manager PolicyKit and ConsoleKit aware D-bus API Better fast-user-switching support

GVFS GIO shared library API for gvfs Gvfs backends for filesystems and protocols Provides fuse mounts for traditional applications

Live Persistence Overlay file Preserves changes between reboots Includes package updates (except kernel)

NetworkManager Now default “Bring up the network” tool Brings up system configured network interfaces at boot time Support for multiple active interfaces Allow system connection configuration editing Support for GSM/CDMA cards

PackageKit Cross platform/package management GUI Freedesktop.org project, more contributors vendor neutral Integration with PolicyKit for fine grained authorization

Clock Applet Improve support for multiple timezones/locations Show more useful information day/night Geographic location weather

GCC4.3 Most Fedora packages recompiled for GCC4.3 Massive amounts of code bugs fixed due to effort

KDE4 KDE4 workspace default for KDE installs Support for KDE3 applications Dramatically improved KDE experience

Yum Dramatically faster operation System configurable multilib policy best

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