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Announcing Fedora 7 (Moonshine) (fwd)
Fedora 7 is out. The attached two messages should give you a good
idea what has changed.
Unfortunately there are a lot of changes in the way things are
arranged on the mirror sites, and I didn't get a chance to prep
everything ahead of time, so ftp.silug.org isn't sync'd up yet.
That also means that my local copy at the store isn't sync'd yet
either, so if you *really* want it today, you'll have to do it the old
fashioned way... Bittorrent. :-)
Steve
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Howdy, cousins! Welcome to our little Fedora hollow, where we've
brewed up some mighty, mighty Fedora 7 Moonshine for your enjoyment.
Here, I'll help you pour that ... and some for me ... *cough, cough*
Smoooooth ... sure does taste good. It's been sitting here in the jug
for almost a whole month now! Go ahead and help yourself to some
more:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html
What's the most important thing to do if you are upgrading your Fedora
version? Why, that's easy! Read the release notes, it prevents
hangovers:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes
What are new things to do with your Moonshine?
* Mix and remix this Moonshine to come up with as many flavored drinks
as there is Joe-Pye weed in the Appalachians. Want an OS to
send home with the students or staff? Add packages, remove
packages, spin it any way you like. Let a thousand distros bloom!
* Bottle up that custom mix and call it an appliance. ISV building an
appliance product? Make an RPM, identify the minimal number of
packages needed for an appliance around that RPM, then build a
distro and a live image. Easy as moon pie.
Gol' darn, but this is good 'shine. *hic* There, is that enough? No?
Here, let me pour us some more, and we can toast the most important
part of this Moonshine -- the makers. You thought I made it? Oh, no.
No special elite brewmaster here, I'm just a bartender, and this log
is my bar! Ha ha. No, really ... see ...
Fedora 7 is the first release where the development was one hunnerd
and one per-cent in the community. How? It's simple, cousin -- all
the code was merged into a single external repository. Why? Same
great distribution quality, even more high-quality developers able to
work directly with the code and improve the flavor of over 7500
packages.
Grab that jug, look inside, and you find:
* KDE? Yep, with Moonshine, Fedora and KDE are gettin' downright
friendly with each other.
* Laptops? A tickless kernel means better power consumption for
laptops; extended wireless functionality, meaning more chances
hardware will Just Work. Yee-ha!
* Get those Live images, burn CDs or DVDs, and share them with your
friends and neighbors. This is the first Fedora distribution with
full Live CD/DVD capability.
* Interoperability? Let's start with resizing and reading of NTFS
file systems. How about those Liberation fonts, d'you like how they
just slip right in where other fonts were used?
* Why stop with just one fruit jar of virtualization? This release
includes support for KVM and overall more virtualization capability.
* As always, tasty new graphics for the Fedora 7 desktop, as well as
an updated Website look and functionality, including a new build and
package update system.
More? Read up at:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-OverView.html
Oops, looks like we drank up all that jug. Guess I'll just make a
trip over the torrents to get me another. All right, then, we'll
see you. Y'all come back soon now, ya hear?
= Want Fedora? Get Fedora =
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html
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My fellow Fedorans,
In a few hours (about 10:00 AM EDT/2:00 PM GMT), Fedora 7 will go live
to the world.
It's the middle of the night in the main Red Hat offices in Raleigh and
Westford, but I amm in Berlin this week for LinuxTag, which is the
largest Linux conference in Europe (10,000 visitors over 4 days).
We have a great looking Fedora booth, and we are holding a FUDCon
(Fedora Users and Developers Conference) here today during which we have
a conference hall that probably seats 150 people all to ourselves. We
are giving speeches and talks about Fedora all day long, both in German
and in English. I've already had several people come by asking when
Alan Cox will be arriving. Answer: Real Soon Now.
We have several activities ongoing at the Fedora booth, including an
install-fest, and a troubleshooting contest with prizes that include
free books and free Red Hat training classes. We have all variety of
Fedora swag as well. It's quite an impressive setup here at LinuxTag,
and worth noting that the entire organizational force behind the event
was driven by our Fedora Ambassador community of volunteers.
This email is my "personal" Fedora 7 release announcement, and also
touches on some of the topics that I will mention during my speech at
FUDCon today.
Before I talk about Fedora 7, it's useful to look at recent history.
One of the Fedora Project's mottos is "the rapid progress of free and
open source software." With Fedora Core 5 in March of 2006, Fedora Core
6 in October of 2006, and Fedora 7 today, that's about 7 months per
release. And with several million Fedora Core 6 installs, everyone who
works on Fedora should feel very proud that not only is the software
being released often, but it's also high quality, and in high use around
the world.
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Fedora 7 represents the culmination of several goals that Fedora has
spent the last few releases (spanning the course of at least 2 years)
working to achieve.
I've written previously on this list about the aspects of Fedora 7 that
I think are the most important (http://tinyurl.com/yuc7ax).
>From my perspective, it is the fundamental infrastructure changes that
Fedora 7 represents that are the biggest achievement.
The entire Fedora toolchain has been freed. Every step in the
distribution-building process is completely open.
Code checked into an external CVS. Packages built on a completely
external build system. Distros and LiveCDs built on completely open
compose tools.
All of this functionality is available via the command line or via a
graphical tool that is build on the APIs that we provide.
For folks who hack on free software, I hope that this is a compelling
development environment in which to work. For folks who are end users
of free software, we believe that the Fedora toolchain allows people to
remix Fedora, and customize it in ways that will provide a much wider
variety of Fedora-based spins than we could ever offer if "Fedora
Release Engineering" had to build them all directly.
There is plenty more, but this email isn't meant to be an exhaustive
list of Fedora 7 release features.
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Additionally, I'd like to mention a few other new things that Fedora has
completed in time for Fedora 7:
Our home page, fedoraproject.org has a new look. We've added a series
of static HTML pages that sit on top of our wiki, and I think it makes
the initial experience of fedoraproject.org much simpler, and much more
useful. The organized chaos of the wiki is all still just one click
away, but we didn't want first-time visitors to fp.o overwhelmed with
the wiki from the first instant.
Our documentation pages have also been given some new organization,
living at docs.fedoraproject.org.
The lifespan of a Fedora release has been increased to "two releases
plus one month". This means that Fedora Core 6 will continue to be
updated until one month after Fedora 8 is released, and Fedora 7 will be
updated until one month after Fedora 9 is released.
We've put into production new mirror management software.
The EPEL project, which aims to make packages from the Fedora repository
available for Enterprise Linux customers, has been making tremendous
progress.
The Fedora News team, which already had been doing a fantastic job, has
expanded the coverage that they provide the Fedora Project, and their
Fedora Weekly News reports offer people a fantastic summary of all the
interesting things that are happening in the Fedora Project.
And more.
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Finally, a few words of thanks. I debated for a while listing specific
names in this email, but the number of people who deserve credit for
Fedora 7 and all of the work that has happened around Fedora 7 cannot be
enumerated without accidentally forgetting someone. So instead I will
simply say that every item discussed in this email has happened as a
result of tremendous work by Fedora contributors both inside and outside
of Red Hat. And it is the partnership of Red Hat and the Fedora
community that allows both groups to be successful.
And I speak for everyone at Red Hat when I say that it is an honor to be
a part of something like Fedora.
Congratulations to everyone on today's release.
Sincerely,
Max Spevack
Fedora Project Leader
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