en-US/OverView.xml
John J. McDonough
jjmcd at fedoraproject.org
Wed Apr 1 15:54:13 UTC 2009
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commit 03780c46845493d4272749ca473b5859731f1c9b
Author: John J. McDonough <jjmcd at fedoraproject.org>
Date: Wed Apr 1 11:52:19 2009 -0400
Fill in the placeholders in the overview
The overview contained a number of placeholders for the "major"
new features. They were filled in by stealing prose from the beta
release notes and the talking points. In some cases this agreed-upon
prose was updated to reflect the "is" status when F11 ships.
diff --git a/en-US/OverView.xml b/en-US/OverView.xml
index bcb2d0c..8af6217 100644
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<para>
<ulink type="http" url="http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList">http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList</ulink>
</para>
+ <para>
+ Throughout the release cycle, there are interviews with the
+ developers behind key features giving out the inside story:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink type="http"
+ url="http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews">http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews</ulink>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The following are major features for Fedora 11:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- Throughout the release cycle, there are interviews with the developers behind key features giving out the inside story:
+ Automatic font and mime-type installation - PackageKit was
+ introduced in Fedora 9 as a cross-distro software management
+ application for users. The capabilities it offers thanks to
+ integration with the desktop became more visible in Fedora
+ 10, where it provided automatic codec installation. Now in
+ Fedora 11, PackageKit extends this functionality with the
+ ability to automatically install fonts where needed for
+ viewing and editing documents. It also includes the
+ capability to install handlers for specific content types as
+ needed. Some work is still being completed to provide
+ automatic installation of applications.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- <ulink type="http" url="http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews">http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews</ulink>
+ Volume Control - Currently, people using Fedora have to go
+ through many levels of mixers in different applications to
+ properly set up sound sources. These are all exposed in the
+ volume control on the desktop, making for a very confusing
+ user experience. PulseAudio allows us to unify the volume
+ controls in one interface that makes setting up sound easier
+ and more pain-free.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- The following are major features for Fedora 11:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- document a feature here...
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- document a feature here...
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- document a feature here...
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ Intel, ATI and Nvidia kernel modsetting - Fedora 10 provided
+ the first steps by a major distribution into using the
+ kernel modesetting (KMS) feature to speed up graphical
+ boot. We indicated at the time that we would be adding
+ greater support for additional video cards as time went
+ on. KMS originally was featured only on some ATI cards. In
+ Fedora 11, this work is extended to include many more video
+ cards, including Intel and Nvidia, and additional ATI as
+ well. Although not fully complete, we have increased
+ enormously the video card coverage of the KMS feature, with
+ more to come.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- Some other features in this release include:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- document a feature here...
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- document a feature here...
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- document a feature here...
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ Fingerprint - Extensive work has been done to make
+ fingerprint readers easy to use as an authentication
+ mechanism. Currently, using fingerprint readers is a bit of
+ a pain, and installing/using fprint and its pam module take
+ more time than should ever be necessary. The goal of this
+ feature is to make it painless by providing all the required
+ pieces in Fedora, together with nicely integrated
+ configuration. To enable this functionality the user will
+ register their fingerprints on the system as part of user
+ account creation. After doing so, they will easily be able
+ to log in and authenticate seamlessly using a simple finger
+ swipe. This greatly simplifies one element of identity
+ management and is a great step in the evolution of the linux
+ desktop.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- Features for Fedora 11 tracked on the feature list page:
+ IBus input method system - ibus has been rewritten in C and
+ is the new default input method for Asian languages. It
+ allows input methods to be added and removed dynamically
+ during a desktop session. It supports Chinese (pinyin,
+ libchewing, tables), Indic (m17n), Japanese (anthy), Korean
+ (libhangul), and more. There are still some features missing
+ compared to scim so testing is strongly encouraged and
+ reports of problems and suggestions for improvements
+ welcome.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Some other features in this release include:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- <ulink type="http" url="http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList">http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList</ulink>
+ Ext4 filesystem - The ext3 file system has remained the
+ mature standard in Linux for a long time. The ext4 file
+ system is a major update that has an improved design, even
+ better performance and reliability, support for much larger
+ storage, and very fast file system checks and file
+ deletions. It is now the default filesystem for new
+ installations.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Virt Improved Console - In Fedora 10 and earlier the virtual
+ guest console is limited to a screen resolution of
+ 800x600. In Fedora 11 the goal is to have the screen default
+ to at least 1024x768 resolution out of the box. New
+ installations of F11 provide the ability to use other
+ interface devices in the virtual guest, such as a USB
+ tablet, which the guest will automatically detect and
+ configure. Among the results is a mouse pointer that tracks
+ the local client pointer one-for-one, and providing expanded
+ capabilities.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ MinGW (Windows cross compiler) - Fedora 11 provides MinGW, a
+ development environment for Fedora users who wish to
+ cross-compile their programs to run on Windows without
+ having to use Windows. In the past developers have had to
+ port and compile all of the libraries and tools they have
+ needed, and this huge effort has happened independently many
+ times over. MinGW eliminates duplication of work for
+ application developers by providing a range of libraries and
+ development tools already ported to the cross-compiler
+ environment. Developers don't have to recompile the
+ application stack themselves, but can concentrate just on
+ the changes needed to their own application.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Features for Fedora 11 tracked on the feature list page:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <ulink type="http"
+ url="http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList">http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList</ulink>
</para>
</section>
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