http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:42:22 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/21652/Yum_It_s_Starting_to_Get_Tasty/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21652/Yum_It_s_Starting_to_Get_Tasty/ Fedora 11 comes with many improvements in package management including a update version of RPM and Yum that reduces memory consumption and performs faster. Fedora 11 also includes the presto plugin for Yum that downloads the binary deltas for updates and typically saves over 80% of the download size. Linux Mag takes a look with some interesting benchmarks that show modest improvements overall. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:10:06 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/21638/Fedora_11_To_Be_Released_Today/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21638/Fedora_11_To_Be_Released_Today/ Today, Fedora 11 will be unleashed upon the web. The release has been postponed for a few days, but this time it's for real. It comes packed with lots of changes, such as improved boot time, Nouveau as the default NVIDIA driver, and of course the latest and greatest version of various open source packages. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:34:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fedora Core 69 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News http://www.osnews.com/story/21457/A_Peek_at_DeviceKit_in_Fedora_11_and_Beyond/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21457/A_Peek_at_DeviceKit_in_Fedora_11_and_Beyond/ Red Hat, which started the HAL project many years ago, has deprecated it in favor of a new initiative called DeviceKit. David Zeuthen, primary developer of DeviceKit, has posted on his blog about the work done by the Red Hat Desktop team in Fedora 11 for improving the storage layer in GNOME by taking advantage of DeviceKit. This includes desktop notification if your hard disk is failing, a desktop utility to handle RAID and LVM storage, a replacement for the venerable gfloppy, and many others. Look at his blog for a number of screenshots showing the details. "The GNOME 2.26 release in Fedora 11 will ship with a completely different stack for handling storage devices. The plan is to land all this work in the upstream GNOME 2.28 release and most of that work is done already." Fri, 08 May 2009 22:03:57 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 21 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/21388/Fedora_11_Preview_Release_Announced/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21388/Fedora_11_Preview_Release_Announced/ Fedora 11 Preview Release has been announced with a large number of new features, even more so than previous general releases. This includes Presto (delta RPM updates reducing bandwidth usage over 80% typically), automatic font and mime installer via PackageKit, Nouveau as the default driver for Nvidia cards (3D support is not mature and disabled however), simplified Anaconda text mode installation and minimal installation support, automatic Bug Reporting tool, native access to Microsoft Exchange using OpenChange, Firefox 3.1 and ThunderBird 3.0, Windows Cross Compiler (MinGW and a comprehensive set of cross compiled libraries), Ext4 as the default filesystem, experimental support for the next generation Btrfs filesystem, improved I18N with the switch to IBus input system by default, much improved Kernel Mode Support, many virtualization and security improvements, RPM 4.7, GNOME 2.26, KDE 4.2, Xfce 4.6, Linux Kernel 2.6.29, Python 2.6. GCC 4.4 and several other changes. Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:49:12 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 21 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/21297/Tutorial_Build_Your_Own_Linux_Distribution/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21297/Tutorial_Build_Your_Own_Linux_Distribution/ PCPlus has a tutorial on building your own Linux distribution with the customizations you want, derived from Fedora, using the graphical interface called Revisor. "We're used to thinking of Linux distributions being set in stone. They're either KDE or Gnome, use a certain kernel and bundle certain applications. But this doesn't have to be the case. If you find yourself making the same adjustments each time you install a new distribution, it's worth creating your own customised version. Revisor is a tool that lets you do just this, and in this tutorial, we'll show you how." Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:49:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/21232/Fedora_11_Beta_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21232/Fedora_11_Beta_Released/ The Fedora team has announced the Fedora 11 beta release. It comes packed with new features, such as Ext4 as the default filesystem, Nouveau driver by default, kernel mode setting on Intel, ATI and Nvidia drivers, many virtualization improvements, IBus input method, GCC 4.4, and much more. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:47:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fedora Core 50 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/21038/Red_Hat_Fedora_Linux_10_Nears_1_Million_Users_Mark/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21038/Red_Hat_Fedora_Linux_10_Nears_1_Million_Users_Mark/ Internet News writes about a major mark for Fedora 10 release. Fedora remains the only distribution to publish it's statistics and gathering methods openly and transparently. In any case, they reached 1 million active installations of Fedora Linux 10. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:30:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/21033/Nouveau_Becomes_Default_Driver_in_Fedora_11/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21033/Nouveau_Becomes_Default_Driver_in_Fedora_11/ Among the many new features for Fedora 11, a newly added one is Nouveau becoming the default driver for Nvidia cards in Rawhide. Nouveau is an effort to create a completely free and open source 3D driver for Nvidia cards. Fedora 7 originally included this driver installed but not enabled by default. Red Hat recently hired Ben Skeggs, one of the primary Nouveau developers and Nouveau driver has been accepted by the Fedora Engineering team to be the default driver for Nvidia cards with the legacy nv driver as a fallback option. Nouvaeu already supports more chipsets, RANR 1.1 support, Accelerated XRENDER, Textured Video support for many cards that are not covered by the nv driver which has been hampered by a lot of obfuscated code as well. Phoronix has other details. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:09:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/20936/Fedora_11_Alpha_Comes_With_Huge_Feature_Set/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20936/Fedora_11_Alpha_Comes_With_Huge_Feature_Set/ Fedora 11 Alpha was released a couple of days back. Phoronix takes a quick look "While a few delays were experienced by the Red Hat engineers and community working on Fedora 11 (a.k.a. Leonidas), the first alpha release of this popular Linux distribution is now available. The 11th release of Fedora will bring a huge set of new features and updated packages, with much of the work already being visible in Fedora 11 Alpha." "Starting with the installation, Fedora 11 is now using the EXT4 file-system by default but there is support built into the Anaconda installer for Btrfs, which recently entered the mainline Linux kernel." Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:45:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 12 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/20919/Fedora_11_Alpha_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20919/Fedora_11_Alpha_Released/ Fedora 11 Alpha includes a number of major features including Ext4 as default filesystem, A Windows cross compiler with dozens of libraries available in the repository, PackageKit Firmware support, experimental support for the next generation Btrfs filesystem, GNOME 2.26 development snapshot, KDE 4.2 RC 2 (general release available as an update), Xfce 4.6 Beta, Python 2.6 and more. Download it from here. The general release is targeted to be released at the end of May this year and will have many more enhancements available. Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:40:41 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/20831/Ext4_To_Be_Default_for_Fedora_11_Btrfs_Also_Included/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20831/Ext4_To_Be_Default_for_Fedora_11_Btrfs_Also_Included/ The latest Fedora development snapshot makes Ext4 the default file system and adds experimental support for the next generation btrfs filesystem. "According to current plans, version 11 of Fedora, which is expected to arrive in late May, will use Ext4 as its standard file system. That's what the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) recently decided, following a heated discussion in an IRC meeting. If however Ext3's successor encounters big problems with the pre-release versions of Fedora 11, the developers will dump that plan and revert to Ext3." Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:33:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/20580/Fedora_10_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20580/Fedora_10_Released/ Fedora 10 is now available, sporting a new graphical boot-up sequence, OpenOffice.org 3, many improvements to sound support via PulseAudio, and other updates. See the release notes here, and Linux Format has a detailed look at F10's features and changes. Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:35:13 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fedora Core 30 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News M-Saunders http://www.osnews.com/story/20471/Fedora_7_to_10_Benchmarks/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20471/Fedora_7_to_10_Benchmarks/ Earlier this week Phoronix published a set of comparative benchmarks regarding Ubuntu, testing various recent releases to compare their performance figures on all sorts of different tasks. They've now done the same thing for Fedora, so we can compare Fedora and Ubuntu in terms of performance. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:49:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fedora Core 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Michael http://www.osnews.com/story/20463/Announcing_the_Fedora_Sugar_Spin/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20463/Announcing_the_Fedora_Sugar_Spin/ OLPC Project uses a derivative of Fedora as the operating system for it's XO laptops. One of the unique features of these laptops, is an environment called Sugar developed as a collaboration between Red Hat and other developers and now being maintained by Sugarlabs, an independent non-profit organization. The Fedora Project has released a new spin, a live CD with the Sugar environment by default and a number of additional activities including sugar-browse based on XULRunner and sugar-write based on Abiword. Furthermore, the Fedora liveusb-creator software has been updated to include support for this spin. For people developing the Sugar environment or those curious about it but don't have an OLPC system, this live cd can be a handy way to dive in. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:39:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Fedora Core 6 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul http://www.osnews.com/story/20435/Interview_Fedora_10_s_Better_Startup/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20435/Interview_Fedora_10_s_Better_Startup/ For a long time now, GNU/Linux distributions have been criticised by desktop and laptop users for starting up too slowly. More recently, within the Fedora community particularly, there have been increasing numbers of complaints about the amount of 'flicker' that happens as the system switches from Grub to RHGB to GDM, etc. Fedora 10 is going to change all of that, and to talk us through this feature, Adam Jackson, Red Hat Desktop Engineer, agreed to an interview. Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:36:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Fedora Core 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/61 News Rahul