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

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

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

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

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

8. Partition Resizing
Install time resizing
FAT
Ext2,3
NTFS

10. 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

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

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

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

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

18. 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

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

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

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

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

26. Yum Dramatically faster operation System configurable multilib policy
best

27. Questions?