Fedora Core 4

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Bill Nottingham írta:
> A Fedora Core 4 proto-schedule is available at:
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/
> 
> Generally, it's 3 4-week test releases, with a release in early/mid May.
> 
> So, what's planned for Fedora Core 4? Here's what we're looking
> at from the Red Hat side of things:
> 
> - GCC 4, if it's ready
> 
>   We're not planning on holding for it, but if it's out in a
>   reasonable time, sure. Failing that, we're looking at making
>   more of the FORTIFY_SOURCE and other gcc & glibc security extensions
>   integrated, if at all possible.
> 
> - The usual new stuff - GNOME 2.10, KDE 3.4, Xorg 6.8.2,
>    OpenOffice 2.0 (maybe), etc.
> 
> - Xen and Virtualization
> 
>   This starts by integrating the Xen kernel stuff, and going
>   from there.
> 
> - SELinux Episode III: Revenge of the AVC
> 
>   Yet more targets in the targeted policy.
> 
> - Faster boot
> 
>   Eliminating redundancy and old cruft in the bootup process,
>   starting GDM early if possible, using newer and faster
>   udev codebases, and other related tweaks.
> 
> - Java
> 
>   More native-compiled GCJ stuff. Including Eclipse.
> 
> - Package management
> 
>   GUI integration of system-config-packages, yum, and friends.
> 
> - more networking changes
> 
>   Further integration of NetworkManager
> 
> - PPC support
> 
>   For your brand spanking new MiniMac, or the p655 under your
>   desk.
> 
> - Extras at launch time. Or else.
> 
>   Hopefully, self explanatory. Could coincide with the move
>   of some bits from Core to Extras. In fact, some of the
>   stuff on this list of features may *be* in Extras.
> 
> Probably other stuff that I'm forgetting in here. I'm sure
> more people can remind me.

More complete bi-arch support on 64-bit at least AMD64?
On FC3, at least /usr/include/kde/arts/gsl/gslconfig.h in
arts-devel (.i386 and .x86_64) conflict, after inspecting both,
one of the #defines differs, so it's not only a packaging problem.
But I have seen other headers that include arch dependent stuff
from /usr/include/asm-i386 or /usr/include/asm-x86_64, respectively.

Ultimately, I would like to be able to install both <package>-libs
and <package>-devel as the latter may contain static libs in either 
/usr/lib or /usr/lib64. Maybe there should be a <package>-headers
that contains the common stuff between the arch dependent -devel RPM.

Hm. Anaconda or firstboot support to install all the .i386 versions of
the above on x86-64 would be nice. I don't mind downloading all the
2x N disks for FC4, I installed both versions of FC3 on different
machines, too.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi