[relnotes] [Fedora Project Wiki] Update of "Docs/Beats/PackageNotes" by BobJensen

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  = Package Notes =
  
  The following sections contain information regarding software packages that have undergone significant changes for Fedora Core [[GetVal(DocsDict,BeatsVer)]]. For easier access, they are generally organized using the same groups that are shown in the installation system.
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  == Core utilities POSIX changes ==
  
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  The `coreutils` package now follows the POSIX standard version 200112. This change in behavior might affect scripts and command arguments that were previously deprecated.  For example, if you have a newer system but are running software that assumes an older version of POSIX and uses {{{sort +1}}} or {{{tail +10}}}, you can work around any compatibility problems by setting `_POSIX2_VERSION=199209` in your environment. Refer to the section on standards in the `coreutils` info manual for more information on this. You can run the following command to read this information.
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- info coreutils Standards
+ ##{{{ info coreutils Standards
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  == Pango Text Renderer for Firefox ==
  
  Fedora is building Firefox with the Pango system as the text renderer.  This provides better support for certain language scripts, such as Indic and some CJK  scripts.  Pango is included with with permission of the Mozilla  Corporation.  This change is known to break rendering of MathML, and may negatively impact performance on some pages.  To disable the use of Pango, set your environment before launching Firefox:
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- {{{
- MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 /usr/bin/firefox
+ ##{{{ MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 /usr/bin/firefox
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+ ##}}}
  
  Alternately, you can include this environment variable as part of a wrapper script.
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  == Smbfs deprecated ==
  
  The kernel implementation of '''smbfs''' to support the Windows file sharing protocol has been deprecated in favor of '''cifs''', which is backwards compatible with '''smbfs''' in features and maintenance. It is recommended that you use the '''cifs''' filesystem in place of '''smbfs'''.
  
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  == Yum kernel handling plugin ==
  
  The yum package provides the `installonlyn` plugin by default.  This plugin retains the latest two kernels, in addition to the currently running kernel, when you perform updates on your system. To tune this feature to retain more or fewer kernels, or to disable it entirely, edit the `/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf` file.  Other plugins and utilities are available as part of the `yum-utils` package in Fedora Extras. To install them, use the following command:
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- yum install yum-utils
+ ##{{{ yum install yum-utils
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  == Yum cache handling behavior changes ==
  
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  As part of the changes to the mounting infrastructure, the desktop's automatic mountable devices detection now includes policy definitions that ignore all fixed disk devices from.  This was done to increase security on multi-user systems.  People on multi-user systems who want to make changes to disk mounting that could impact the multi-user environment are advised to understand the implications of the default HAL policy decisions and to review the HAL policy files in `/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/`.
  
  If you are on a single-user system and would like to recover the functionality to mount fixed disk items such as IDE partitions from the desktop, you can modify the default HAL policy.  To enable deskop mounting for all fixed disks:
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- {{{
- su -c 'mv /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi  /root/'
+ ##{{{ su -c 'mv /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi  /root/'
- su -c '/sbin/service haldaemon restart'
+ ##su -c '/sbin/service haldaemon restart'
- }}}
+ ##}}}
  
  If you need more fine-grained control and only want to expose certain fixed disks for desktop mounting, read over how to create additional HAL policy to selectively ignore/allow fixed disk devices.
  
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  == LinuxThreads support removed ==
  
  The Linux``Threads library is no longer available.  Linux``Threads was deprecated in Fedora Core 4 and is no longer available in this release.  The Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL), which has been the default threading library since Red Hat Linux 9, has replaced Linux``Threads completely.
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