Fedora Core 4

dragoran dragoran at feuerpokemon.de
Sat Jan 15 06:40:37 UTC 2005


Bill Nottingham schrieb:

>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.
>
>Bill
>
>  
>
what about cdrw/dvd packet writing?
the kernel supports it since 2.6.10 only the udftools package is missing 
to let users use this feature.




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