[Ambassadors] Fedora 8 announce

[pingou]

Dear ambassadors,

For every release the french team is used to write a small announce for 
the Fedora user to be published on websites.

We have decided to translate the announce in english so that those that 
would like to present Fedora 8 on their blog or on other website could 
do it quit easily.

The translation is far from perfect, so I would advice you to have a 
look at it and to correct what needs to be.

Hope it helps,
Best regards,

P.Yves

The announce is past as text here and attached as .odt with this email
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Announce Fedora 8


On this autumn period where the best fruit are matured, it comes the 
time to harvest the new Fedora release.

This new Fedora is named “WereWolf”, but do not be afraid this release 
will bring you all the safety and stability that you could dream of.
The main point of this new version is without any doubt
SIMPLICITY
After 5 months of intense work, and in order to provide you the latest 
technologies, this new release will be for you as for us a major evolution.

The major new features are (among others):


Codek Buddy (aka codeina) :
By default Fedora does not provide non free codecs. This is sometime a 
problem for the end users who has to install them on their own. This is 
the reason why Codec Buddy has been created. This tool is able to help 
you to install the required codecs to helps you to listen to your MP3 or 
watch your movies, in a very simple way.

PulseAudio: (NTBR)
Fedora 8 provides the last generation of sound server. The goal is to 
offer to the music fan a great improvement to the support of low 
latency. The new technology opens the gate to new functionalities like 
decrease automatically the volume of the noise when you are watching a 
movie.

System-config-firewall :
This new interface is much more accessible for the new Fedora users. It 
is a very intuitive interface thanks to its step by step configuration.

System-config-selinux :
Nowadays, the configuration of SELinux is distinct from the one of the 
firewall, in a new user friendly interface.

System-config-printer : (NTBR)
The printer configuration system has also been changed. During the 
installation, it will now create automatically the printing queue, this 
is the end of the steps where so much users has failed on the past.

NetworkManager 0.7 :
Entirely rewritten in order to satisfy to the wired and wireless 
network, giving a higher speed of connection and a better integration 
(thanks among other to the Dbus API and the WPA for the wireless).

Better laptop support :
Thanks to the information returned by “smolt” the Fedora team has 
improved the management of the Suspend to Ram and Suspend to Disk 
system, and the recognition of the multimedia keys on the keyboard.

Package management :
Pirut (a GUI for yum, the package manager) has been updated in order to 
meet the users' demand. It is now able to manage directly the 
repositories from this GUI, simplifying a lot the work of new users.

Fedora 8's theme :
For each new Fedora release a new theme is created. For Fedora 8, the 
icons, the windows' border have also been changed to fit the theme. This 
project is named “Nodoka”.
The desktop background is named “Infinity”. You could say, “yes, well it 
is just a new desktop background”, however the main innovation for this 
background is that it changes over the day, from the blue in the morning 
to a relax and peacefull purple on the evening.

Virtualization :
Virtualization is an important part that more and more people use, 
within this new release, virtualization has also evolved. The safety has 
been greatly improved thanks to a new library that allows you to use the 
SSL/TLS protocol to secure your access. The other modifications are on 
the graphical interface of virt-manager, more user friendly and 
providing the last functionalities.


FEL (Fedora Electronic Lab) :
This new product made in Fedora has been created by the SIG (Special 
Interest Group) “embedded”. This project try to implement as much 
applications as possible. This software and tools are focus on a 
electronic theme in order to provide a live-cd to universities.

For the developers, we did not forget that the last version of eclipse 
3.3 is available for Fedora. This new version provides a lot of new 
functions:
JDT : for Java development.
CDT : Editor, builder and debugger for C and C++.
Autotools : plugin for CDT to support autoconf, and automake (among others).
Mylyn : first interface that allows the developers to request the 
Bugzilla's database.
PHPEclipse : plugin for PHP development of test.
Specfile editor : plugin for the SpecFiles for RPM creation.
PyDev : plugin for Python
...

In order to get this new release, you can go to this page :
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora


The Fedora ambassador, from the FedoraProject.
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