Beta Release Notes

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:28 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mer 5 mars 2008 15:14, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
> > Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 12:58 +0000, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> The beta release notes can be found at:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Beta/ReleaseNotes
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd appreciate it if people would look over what's there and make
> >>>> suggestions on list or changes to the page itself :)
> >>
> >> 1. evdev was enabled in X, which should improve support of many
> >> so-called "multimedia" keys.
> >>
> >> 2. The Fedora font selection changed, with many new fonts added and
> >> a few dropped following a licensing audit.
> >
> > Do you have more information on what has changed?
> 
> - DejaVu full replaces DejaVu LGC as default font set. LGC still
> available in the repo for users wishing to downgrade the default font
> coverage.
> - Luxi was dropped. Not modifiable.
> - DejaVu and Liberation updated to new versions with more coverage.
> - Many historic font packages were renamed and reorganised (the end of
> the font-region bundles)
> - Stix, Tiresias, Yanonne, Greek Font Society font set were added (and
> several others I don't remember from the top of my head, diffing comps
> files from F8 at release time and Rawhide or asking Jens should tell
> the full story)
> 
> Not for the release notes, but for the list: we have good official
> packaging guidelines for TTF/OTF fonts now, and a huge font wishlist.
> What we are lacking is packagers. Please come join the fun!

/me reminds responders that it's just as easy to dump these blurbs into
the wiki directly.  Documentation folks will clean them up and ask for
any necessary clarifications based on who added them.  Thanks for the
release notes content!

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