Friday, December 24, 2010

Fedora 10 new features overview

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that contains the latest free and open source software.

Anyone available forever free use, modify, and distribute Fedora. It is made of the global community (Fedora project) to create. Fedora project is an open project and welcomes anyone to join. Fedora project is a leading provider of project, lead free and open software and components to the latest results. Because of the related server last August by malicious hackers, Fedora10 official version of the release than originally planned to postpone for a month's time. Fedora development for communities in the later had to make some critical devices offline, fortunately, after inspection did not find the source code from being stolen. Fedora10 released based on the month of October of this year's LinuxKernel2.6.27, improved and popular camera compatibility, integration of new Atherosath9k wireless driver, the default is Firefox3.0.4 browser. Fedora10 provides KDE4.1 and GNOME2.24 two latest version of the installation environment options, including the former release in July, which was released in September, integrates Instant Messaging client Empathy and tabbed browsing, and improves the Nautilus file manager. According to official release notes, the main characteristics of a Fedora10: 1.RPMFusion Fedora have long been criticized for not providing proprietary software, patent coding decoder (codec), for we are familiar with a variety of reasons. In the past, you can use various third-party software in order to obtain these warehouses are forbidden by the additional software, but they often and Fedora basic software warehouse software conflicts, or is not compatible with each other. Better now, several of the most commonly used software warehouse have come together and create a brand new Super software warehouse, this is RPMFusion. This is what you get multimedia decoder and hardware drivers are only required software warehouse. The most remarkable is the RPMFusion, thanks to the Fedora's open character, they use the exact same tools (such as packaged software) and the same packaging process their own packaged their software, so the quality is guaranteed. 2. better print support for automatic configuration in printer Fedora8. Into virtually any printer, all the missing drivers are automatically installed, the entire process does not require users to help yourself. In the Fedora10, printer control applications, the system configuration the print driver, have been completely rewritten to write and simplified. Of course, some changes are very small, it is these very small changes transformed the entire printing system, isn't it? some notable improvements include: does not require root password when no longer prompted to enter the root password is not paper, denied printing tasks, etc. icons printing tasks fails to notify the user and provide diagnostic tools to identify failure dialog box is simplified, and no longer let confusing initial printer dialog box

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