The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community in order to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule.A funky wallpaper :-
Fedora 8 is promising new features like:
- Optional replacement for GNOME panel that uses online services via mugshot;
- Enhanced Bluetooth support;
- Fedora 8 Bookmarks;
- Make core dumps self-identifying enough to find the exact correct versions of all relevant binaries and debuginfo;
- Buddy Helper app promotes Free alternatives and guides users trying to play content under restricted codecs;
- Fix the dictionary proliferation problem;
- Integrating KDE 4.0, a new major version of KDE;
- Improved support for using Fedora on Laptops;
- Support for Nepali Language;
- Nodoka, new default theme for GNOME;
- We need to remove pam_console and migrate all users to use the ACLs as set by HAL;
- Easy and painless administration;
- Using delta RPM updates by default. Saves heavy amount of bandwidth and time for updates;
- Feature rich sound server (Pulse Audio);
- Make rsyslog the new default syslog daemon.
- Rsyslog has an assorted set of new features that make system administration easier;
- TeXLive 2007 inclusion;
- Make the default x86_64 kernel tickless;
- Secure remote mangement for Xen, KVM & QEMU virtualization;
- Powertop is included. Need to start tracking egregious offenders;
- Don't start XFS font server daemon by default and fix font packages. Savings on performance and bootup time;
- Use and integrate XULRunner which is the Gecko browser engine separated from the user interface.
Fedora 8 release schedule:
- 7 August 2007 - Fedora 8 Test1 release
- 28 August 2007 - Fedora 8 FEATURE freeze, Fedora 8 string freeze, Fedora 8 Test2 development freeze
- 6 September 2007 - Fedora 8 Test2 Release
- 25 September 2007 - Fedora 8 translation freeze, Fedora 8 Test3 development freeze
- 4 October 2007 - Fedora 8 Test3 Release
- 23 October 2007 - Final devel freeze
- 8 November 2007 - Fedora 8 General Availability
Download : Mirror 1 | Mirror 2[Torrent]
Home Page: Releases/8 - Fedora Project Wiki
Announcement : https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-August/msg00116.html
