Fedora 13 is coming

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

Just a reminder that the Beta and Final Release dates for Fedora 13 are:

Fedora 13 Beta Release		April 13
Fedora 13 Final Release		May 18

Significant changes in Fedora 13:

GNOME. Version 2.30 was just released upstream this past Wednesday,
March 31, which is just a bit too late for Fedora 13. The Final Release
will have GNOME v2.29, but may get v2.30 as an update. (Early RPM
packages for v2.30 are in Rawhide if you can't wait.)

KDE. Opinions vary on KDE v4. The Dot-Zero release was simply awful and
did a lot of damage to KDE's image. Whether v4.4 will restore KDE's lost
lustre in Fedora 13 is unknown. Linus has switched to GNOME.

NFS. The TCP-based, fully integrated version 4 is now the default.
However, if you want to run NVSv4 only, be aware that there are still
some unresolved issues with rpc.mountd in the nfs-utils package that may
trip you up.

Upstart. This is a modern replacement for the familiar /sbin/init
daemon. Fedora 13 switches from v0.3 to the currently-supported v0.6. If
you use third-party services that install their own init scripts, you
may want to pay close attention to this one.

RPM. Fedora 13 gets a strategic upgrade to RPM v4.8 with a lot of bug
fixes and behind-the-scenes improvements. End users shouldn't get
surprises like the change from md5sum to sha256sum checksums in RPMs a
couple of versions back.

Dogtag. Anyone who's ever had to futz with openssl to cob together a
local Certificate Authority to create/manage local certs will appreciate
Dogtag. It's Tomcat-based and said to be enterprise-grade.

Live images. The 700MB size limit for Live CDs is has been retired -- at
last! Fedora developers have responded to user demand for larger, more
capable live images. The new target size is 1GB which will fit on most
USB thumb drives and DVD-Rs. We can probably anticipate CD-size images
will largely disappear in the next 2-3 years.

Automatic Print Driver installation. The idea is simple enough: when a
new printer is connected, select and install the proper driver for it
automatically. This is a work-in-progress and may cause some problems
until the capability is thoroughly shaken down.

For more info see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/FeatureList

--Doc


-
To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@silug.org with
"unsubscribe silug-discuss" in the body.