[Ambassadors] The Countdown to Fedora 11 Begins!

[Jack Aboutboul]

Fedora 11 is less than two weeks away. The excitement is in the air as 
well can't wait to see the product of more than a few long months of 
hard work. It's prime time to start the countdown clock and start 
talking about the upcoming release, talk about what users can expect to 
see, highlight new features and describe some of the enhancements that 
we can all look forward too. As part of a series of Podcast and print 
interviews, Today, I would like to present the first podcast in the 
Fedora 11 Podcast series, an Interview with long time Fedora contributor 
and Fedora Release Engineer Jesse Keating. The Audio can be found here:

"Fedora 11 General Overview with Fedora Release Engineer Jesse Keating" 
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[http://jack.fedorapeople.org/Fedora%2011%20Overview%20-%20Jesse%20Keating.ogg]

In the interview, Jesse talks to us about the achievement milestone of 
putting together 11 releases, the process of planning and putting 
together a Fedora release, how it was done for F11 and also some of the 
tools, which he helped create which are used to put together the Fedora 
distribution. He talks about Pungi [https://fedorahosted.org/pungi/] and 
Revisor [http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/] which are tools used to 
compose the Fedora tree and create a custom remix or re-spin, 
respesctively. He also talks about some of the changes which have taken 
place under the hood to enable Fedora's new super fast boot up. Jesse 
takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the greatest enhancements we can 
look forward to in F11, including changes to PackageKit and a new 
upstream version of RPM, the new default ext4 filesystem, enhanced 
fingerprint support for authentication and what we can look forward to 
in the future releases of Fedora.

The Full Fedora 11 Feature list can be found at 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList and you can look 
forward to more in depth coverage of some of those features and of the 
upcoming release in the days to come. Fedora 11 is sure to prove a 
highly innovative and technology advanced release.

Fedora 11. Get ready. There's reason to be excited!