Start of F11 Marketing and Press Push

[Jack Aboutboul]

Hello All,

The press push for Fedora 11 will be in full effect starting tomorrow.  
Below is what I will post to the Fedora planet and submit to other news 
channels tomorrow.  Something will be posted about this to announce list 
tomorrow.  Also, this is what should be distributed by the NDN folks and 
please ambassadors and others if you can help drum up support by linking 
to this, that would be great.

Of course let me know what you think.  I will be tweaking this again 
assuming I get some good feedback.  I will be back on the computer at 
around 11pm.

Thanks
Jack

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The Countdown to Fedora 11 - "Fedora 11 General Overview with Fedora 
Release Engineer Jesse Keating"

Fedora 11 is less than two weeks away.  The excitement is in the air as 
well can't wait to see the product a 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:

http://jack.fedorapeople.org/Fedora 11 Overview - Jesse Keating.mp3

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!