Fedora 14 'Laughlin'

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Bert Desmet, 22 years young

Belgian

Fedora Project

Koji project

Devnox

Quick Facts

New release every six months

Free and open source applications only

Free and open source infrastructure

Red Hat is the primary sponsor

Maintained by volunteers largely (~70%)

Nearly 15,000 installable software packages

Rapid progress of free and open source software

1986 Richard stallmanFree software foundation

0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose. 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish. 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor. 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

Four foundations

Freedom

Friends

Features

First

Rapid innovation

NetworkManager

SELinux

PulseAudio

PackageKit

Plymouth

DeviceKit

ABRT: Automatic Bug Reporting Tool

Spins and remixes

OLPC XO / SoaS / Education SpinMoblinFedora Design SuiteKDE / LXDE / Xfce Fedora Security LabFedora Electronics LabRoll your own: http://spins.fedoraproject.org
It's easy! Like taking candy from a baby!

Fedora 14 architectures

x86: AMD, Cyrix, Intel and VIA (i686)
200 MHz Pentium Pro or better for text mode
400 MHz Pentium Pro or better for graphical mode

X86-64 requirements
256 MB RAM for text mode
512 MB RAM for graphical mode
512 MB or higher recommended

PowerPC
Old and New World PowerPC (Old World with BootX)
PlayStation 3 and Genesi Pegasos II

So what's new?

1. apache foundation, nsa, you 2. fedora contibutors3. users, sys admins, developers, ..4. (bug reports, patches, new contributors, ...)5. enterprise linux

SpiceSimple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments

interface to interact with the virtualized desktop

Sound, 2D display and other devices

LibjpegturboLoads and saves your jpeg faster

Gnome 3The new version of our default window manager

Technology preview

Desktop users

Administrators

EC2Fedora 14 is available in the EC2 cloud

OpenSCAP security tool Security Content Automation Protocol

Automagically checks for CVEs, runs tools, ..

SystemDTech preview

Upstart replacement

parallel and on-demand starting of services and featuresFaster boot times

Developers

D programming Combining the power of C with the productivity of Python

GNUstep NextStep replacement

GUI framework for objective-C

Python 2.7Improved portability and migration paths for moves to Python 3

Many modules feature complete with their Python 3.1 equivalents

Questions?

E-mail: bert@bdesmet.beTwitter: @biertieidenti.ca: @biertieWeb: http://bdesmet.be

Attribution: Larry Cafiero (first slides)

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