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

2. 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

3. 20 Second Startup Identify and correct delays during bootup
Goal to be at login screen within 20 seconds of boot loader
Bootchart

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

5. 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

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

8. 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

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

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

14. Firefox / Thunderbird 3(.1)

15. gcc-4.4
Nearly all packages rebuilt
More ponies

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

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

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

19. Intel Kernel Modesetting
Graphical Bootup
Less mode changes

20. Nouveau Mode Setting
Nouveau as default for nvidia cards

21. OpenChange
Native MAPI library
Evolution support

22. Presto
DeltaRPMS
Significant download savings

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

24. 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

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

28. Many many more at https://fedoraproject