1. chitlesh@fedoraproject.org Beats & Press Release Chitlesh GOORAH - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org Fedora Core 5 Fedora is open free innovative forward-looking This release is the culmination of nine months of development, and includes significant new versions of many key products and technologies.

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3. chitlesh@fedoraproject.org – Completely revamped appearance with a bubbly new theme and the first use of the new Fedora logo. – Fedora Rendering Project: provide the technical foundations for advanced desktop interfaces based on OpenGL. – Innovative new versions of GNOME (2.14) and KDE (3.5) – GNOME Power Manager & GNOME Screensaver provide new and integrated power management capabilities. – New GNOME User Share facility provides simple and efficient file sharing. – LUKS, hard disk encryption is integrated with HAL and GNOME in this release. Fedora 5 Desktop

4. chitlesh@fedoraproject.org – Software suspend (hibernate) capability is now provided for a wide variety of hardware. (Suspend to RAM feature) – Pup, a simple interface for system updates, Pirut, a new package manager that replaces system- config-packages. – Mono support for the first time Beagle, a desktop search interface; F-Spot, a photo management utility; and Tomboy, a note-taking application. – Enhanced multimedia support with Gstreamer media framework (0.10). (robustness, compatibility), Totem movie player and other media software in this release have been updated to use the new framework. Fedora 5 Desktop

5. chitlesh@fedoraproject.org – Dramatic improvements in internationalization support with SCIM in Fedora Core 5. The SCIM language input framework provides an easy to use interface for inputting many different non-English languages. SCIM replaces the IIIMF system used in previous Fedora releases. – Latest Web browser Firefox 1.5.0.x series with many new features for faster, safer, and more efficient browsing. – Office Suite: OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 ([WWW] now makes better use of general system libraries for increased performance and efficiency. – Many GTK and GNOME programs take advantage of the Cairo 2D graphics library to provide streamlined attractive graphical interfaces. Fedora 5 Desktop

6. chitlesh@fedoraproject.org – New experimental drivers that provide support for the widely-used Broadcom 43xx wireless chipsets – NetworkManager has received numerous menu, user interface, and functionality improvements. – Presence of libnotify, a library that features simple and attractive notifications for the desktop. – gnome-mount, a more efficient mechanism that replaces fstab-sync, and uses HAL to handle mounting. – Improved Printing support with the inclusion of the hplip utility, which replaces hpijs Fedora 5 Desktop

7. chitlesh@fedoraproject.org – Enhanced Xen virtualization system support. Graphical installation process to configure Xen virtual machines – Fedora developers have also created - gnome-applet-vm, a simple virtual domains monitor applet, - ibvirt a library providing an API to use Xen virtualization capabilities. – Enhanced Anaconda installation system New features : remote logging and improved support for tracebacks. Package management by yum. Enables access to Fedora Extras from within the installation process. – Apache HTTP server (2.2) provides enhancements to authentication, database support, proxy facilities, and content filtering. Fedora 5 System Admintrastion

8. chitlesh@fedoraproject.org – The latest generation of database servers : MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL 8.1. – Several native Java programs are compiled with GCJ, such as the Geronimo J2EE server and the Apache Jakarta Project, in addition to the Java programs and development capabilities in the previous releases. – New Tools for System monitoring and performance analysis. SystemTap an instrumentation system for debugging and analyzing performance bottle necks, and Frysk an execution analysis technology for monitoring running processes or threads – System-config-cluster a utility manage cluster configuration in a graphical setting. Fedora 5 System Admintrastion

9. chitlesh@fedoraproject.org – Kexec and Kdump utilities provides modern crash dumping facilities and potential for faster bootup, bypassing the firmware on reboots. – Kexec loads a new kernel from a running kernel, and Kdump can provide a memory dump of the previous kernel for debugging. – This release includes iscsi-initiator-utils, iSCSI daemon and utility programs that provide support for hardware using the iSCSI interface. – fedora-release now includes the software repositories for debuginfo packages and source rpm packages. for Fedora Legacy community maintenance project. (disabled by default) Fedora 5 System Admintrastion

10. chitlesh@fedoraproject.org – X.org X11R7.0 The new modular architecture of R7.0 enables easier driver upgrades and simplifies development, opening the way for rapid improvement in Linux graphics. – The GCC 4.1 compiler The entire set of Fedora packages is built with this technology. This provides security and performance enhancements throughout the system. – The Linux 2.6.16 kernels. – The PCMCIA framework used by laptop and mobile devices has changed. The older pcmcia- cs package using the cardmgr/pcmcia service has been replaced. PCMCIA devices are handled directly and dynamically by thehotplug and udev subsystems. This update increases both efficiency and performance of the system. Fedora 5 System Level Changes

11. chitlesh@fedoraproject.org – SELinux implementation (major change), with a switch to the SELinux reference policy Hence - can support binary policy modules. - can move SELinux policies into individual packages, making it easier for users to ship site-specific policy customizations when required. – Support for Multi-Category Security (MCS), enabled by default, and Multi-Level Security (MLS). – SELinux continues to offer support for TE (Type Enforcement), enabled by default, and RBAC (Role-Based Access Control). Fedora 5 System Level Changes

12. chitlesh@fedoraproject.org Contact Chitlesh GOORAH (ambassador of The Fedora Projet and Kadischi developer) chitlesh@fedoraproject.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah

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