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Fedora 8 is out - Inquirer
by Marc Wiriadisastra 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

"RED HAT'S community-driven Linux distribution Fedora 8 has been released today and comes with a bit more eye-candy and sound gear to tart itself up. Codenamed Werewolf, Fedora Core 8 comes with the PulseAudio sound daemon, which will allow users to set the volume for each application. It can move streams between devices, redirect audio streams to other computers on the local network." http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/09/fedora Digg: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_8_is_out Cheers, Marc

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Screenshots: A peek at Red Hat's Fedora 8 Linux
by Rahul Sundaram 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi Nice gallery with good captions. This is how our own tours page should look like though a wiki has its limitations on formatting content. http://www.news.com/2300-1016_3-6217482.html?tag=ne.gall.latest Rahul

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osnews comments
by Max Spevack 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

There's some good comments in here. http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=18900 I liked this one... ---- what people have probably missed in the last few releases is the huge amount of work on the 'infrastructure' behind fedora in order to get it to where it is today, it's clear now that that work is now showing the fruits of fruition and everything is coming together * custom spins * fedora 8 on a usb key * pulseaudio * codecbuddy * yum improvements (yes it's fast) * packagemanagement improvements (change repos and more) * gui for firewall * online desktop * the whole fedoraproject.org website and associated projects i think F9 (yes I'm talking about that already) will be awesome, as it'll most likely have compiz enabled by default plus a whole lot more, and no doubt it'll have ironed out any bugs still present or yet to be found in F8

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The Evolution of Fedora
by Jack Aboutboul 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Check out this awesome site which covers everything from FC1 to F8. http://linux-noob.com/review/fedora/development Simply awesome! Jack

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CustomSpins page
by Max Spevack 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

If someone has time to update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins to feature the F8 stuff first, and the F7 stuff as now being secondary, that would be awesome. We've got Fedora Unity's CD set, etc. etc. Thanks guys -- congrats on the release! Best, Max

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Fedora 8 CD Sets Released
by Jeroen van Meeuwen 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Fedora Unity has released Fedora 8 CD Sets. http://fedoraunity.org/news-archives/fedora-8-cd-sets-released http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_8_CD_Sets_Released To download, launch your favorite Jigdo client against: http://jigdo.fedoraunity.org/templates/Fedora-8-CD/Fedora-8-CD.jigdo Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip

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Red Hat's Fedora 8 hope: An all-purpose Linux foundation
by Rahul Sundaram 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Hi The efforts that go into remixing Fedora including the new generic-logos package that allows easy rebranding is being highlighted here. http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9813113-39.html "Over the years, Red Hat's Fedora has made a name for itself as a version of Linux for enthusiasts, developers, and those who want to try the latest thing in open-source software. But a curious feature of the new version 8, released Thursday, is the ability to strip out the Fedora identity altogether. The reason: Red Hat wants Fedora to be a foundation for those who want to build their own Linux products on a Fedora foundation. With Fedora 8, that's easier, because all the Fedora-specific elements are wrapped up into one neatly optional package, said project leader Max Spevack. " Rahul

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An old hat with new tricks: Fedora 8 officially released
by Rahul Sundaram 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Hi That just about sums it up. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071108-an-old-hat-with-new-tricks-fe… "I've been experimenting with Fedora 8 test 3, and I like what I see. This is a nice release with a pretty sweet assortment of features that you won't find anywhere else. Fedora still manages to differentiate itself and rise above many other contenders by delivering early access to new technologies." Rahul

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Fedora 8 PDF.
by Michael Beckwith 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

This is a mass preliminary e-mail to three mailing lists. What I have done so far with the marketing PDF is get the content and images laid out and desiring feedback for it at this stage. After I get some technical critique and suggestions, I'll go ahead and work on visual presentation. Some notes that I have that I have seen is: -a need to seperate some of the feature paragraphs with a line or some sort of visual blockage so people know where to stop. -locate where "word divisions" is so that the justification of the text doesn't string out so much of the words in some areas. -decorate and also fill the 9th page with technical information. -find some image to use on the 1st page at the top. A header is needed. latest PDF: http://tw2113.fedorapeople.org/fed_overview/11-7.pdf tarball with all files: http://tw2113.fedorapeople.org/fed_overview/F8-Press-Release.tar.gz -- ~Michael http://ridleytx.structed.net (for now) http://michaelbox.net (eventually)

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Fedora 8 Announce
by pingou 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Dear list, 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 ====================================================================== 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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