Stigla Fedora 10 "Cambridge"

Danas je napokon pustena i Fedora 10 "Cambridge" za preuzimanje. Sa obzirom na veliku guzvu, mozda je bolja varijanta preuzimanje putem torent-a. Link

Fedora 10 release party and Fedora Install Fest

Fedora 10 release party and Fedora Install Fest - Vrsac , Serbia

When and Where:

* 27 Dec 2008 * Vrsac, Serbia

Program:

Fedora 10 release party and linux (Fedora) Install Fest in Serbia (Introduction in Fedora Project, and Promoting Fedora to additional users)
Ideas
Speaking about:

* introduction in GNU, Open Source, Free Software (FOSS)

* introduction in Fedora Project (about goals, freedom, community...)

Talkers if accept to occur:

* Sity mayor speak (about welcome), (?)

* Secretary for telecommunications and Information society of Serbia, (?)

* FSN Serbia (Free Software Network Serbia)- Ivan Jelic, chairman

* talkers from Red Hat Regional Centre For Support, Research and Development in Vrsac,Serbia,

* GNUzila journal for popularizing FOSS - Ivan Jelic, (?)

* Serbian Translation Team Coordinator - Milos Komarcevic, (?)

**If you are in ta a Talkers list, or you like to become, please contact me.

othere:

* snacks & drinks

* Install Fest (installing Fedora 10 to final users in cooperation with help of some Serbian LUGs, and FOSS groups)

**'dedlines is not closed yet'

Organizator:

Ferenc Pravda
Serbian Fedora ambassador
Pravda013@fedoraproject.org

with help of LUGoV & LUGoNS GNU/Linux User Groups

Fedora 10 Alpha Preview by phoronix

Fedora 9 had shipped earlier this year with kernel-based mode-setting support, an early release of NetworkManager 0.7, PackageKit integration, install-time encryption support, initial EXT4 support, the Upstart daemon, and many other improvements. Now, however, it's time start getting excited over Fedora 10. The first Alpha release of Fedora 10 (codenamed Cambridge) was released this morning. In this article we have screenshots of Fedora 10 along with some of the features you can expect when this Linux operating system ships in October.

Fedora 10 has yet to receive its artwork overhaul, so for now it looks much like Fedora 9. Fedora 10 is tracking GNOME 2.24 and the KDE spin will ship with KDE 4.1. For those of you that have a work requirement to use Microsoft Exchange, Fedora 10 may make the process easier. Integrated in Fedora 10 will be a library from OpenChange that makes it possible for open-source utilities such as the KDE PIM (Personal Information Management) and Evolution to function as clients of a Microsoft Exchange Server. OpenChange is an open-source implementation of the Microsoft Exchange protocols. As a prerequisite to integrating OpenChange, Samba 4 will also ship with Fedora 10.

In Fedora 9 there were numerous network improvements when it came to using NetworkManager. A number of 3G/CDMA/mobile-broadband cards are now supported in Fedora "out of the box" using an early version of NetworkManager 0.7. When it comes to network connectivity with Fedora 10, connection-sharing improvements are planned. Red Hat hopes to make it easier to setup an ad-hoc wireless network in Fedora 10 with having a primary Internet connection and a WiFi card to serve the ad-hoc network. These ad-hoc networking improvements will come through NetworkManager and its applet. For more information on other NetworkManager improvements, check out NetworkManager 0.7 Nears Release.

PulseAudio, the sound server designed to compete with Apple's CoreAudio and a replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon, first shipped with Fedora 8. In Fedora 10 though they will be integrating a rewrite of the PulseAudio sound server that switches to using timer-based audio scheduling. This timer-based scheduling leads to less wake-ups and therefore reduced power consumption, dynamic latency adoption, and less hardware dependencies compared to an interrupt-driven scheduler. The switch to this new version of PulseAudio is mostly in place but they are still working out some ALSA issues.

As a feature that will please many who use Fedora or a derivative of it for media playback or a HTPC (Home Theater PC), Fedora 10 will have improved support for remote controls. LIRC, or the Linux Infrared Remote Control, is scheduled for a few improvements within Fedora to make it easier to configure infrared remote controls. Right now LIRC requires editing several configuration files by hand and other work to setup infrared remote controls. As one of the steps for improving this process, gnome-lirc-properties (a GUI for configuring LIRC within GNOME) has been accepted into Fedora and a number of LIRC patches are also present.

Security is a big concern for many users and the security support within Fedora 10 will get even better. Fedora 10 will ship with secTool, which is a security audit system and intrusion detection system. For easy management, it does include a graphical front-end for managing this security system. Fedora 10 should ship with the Linux 2.6.27 kernel and among many other improvements and new drivers it will feature the gspcav2 driver. This GSPCA driver V4L version 2 driver greatly expands the number of supported web cameras under Linux. Other web-camera improvements are also planned for Fedora 10. Fedora 10 also marks the death of RHGB, or the Red Hat Graphical Boot. Red Hat is replacing RHGB with Plymouth. Plymouth is a new project of Red Hat's that aims for a new graphical boot process and it will integrate new technologies such as kernel-based mode-setting. For more information, check out Red Hat Replaces RHGB With Plymouth.

RPM 4.6 is finally getting close to release and as a result, Fedora will be adopting this new version, which does bring several needed features (and bug fixes) for RPM packages. Originally, X.Org 7.4 with X Server 1.5 was supposed to ship with Fedora 9 but it wasn't released in time. X.Org 7.4 still hasn't been released, but a pre-release shipped with Fedora 9. However, hopefully by the time Fedora 10 ships we'll finally see X.Org 7.4 released along with Mesa 7.1. Another feature for Fedora 10 will be improved Haskell functional programming language support.

We will have more on Fedora 10 as its release in October nears. The beta release of Fedora 10 is planned for September 2nd.

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KDE 4.1

Na osnovu statistika objavljene od strane KDE programera, gotovo 21,000 posebnih izmena je napravljeno u odnosu na 4.0 izdanje. Najznačajnije unapređenje je dodatak plasmoid izgleda foldera na desktopu koji omogućava prikaz ikonica koje su sadržane u određenom folderu. Ovo omogućava istu funkcionalnost klasičnog prikaza desktop ikonica iz 3.5.x serije, ali omogućava korisnicima da postave nekoliko foldera odjednom, što povećava dostupanost lokacija u fajlsistemu.
Plasma je napokon dobila punu mogućnost konfigurisanja glavnog panela. sada je moguće postavljanje više panela i promena njihove veličine i položaja. Kontact je portovan na Qt4, a dodane su aplikacije poput DragonPlayer (video playback program), Oketa (hex editor), i KSCD audio CD plejer. Značajna su unapređenja i u Dolphin-u, Konqueror-u, Gwenview-u i mnogim drugim. Sve deluje mnogo utegnutije i stabilnije. Što se problema tiče, još uvek se mogu javiti kod nekih korisnika sa NVIDIA karticama jer oni još uvek nisu objavili nove drajvere koji bi ispravili problem sa usporenjem. Amarok 2 još uvek nije finaliziran a ima još aplikacija koje nisu portovane za KDE 4.x. Linkovi slede u nastavku teksta...

Ova verzija je posvećena nedavno preminulom KDE-ovom kontaktu u Južnoj Africi, Uwe Thiem-u.

Linkovi:

Šta je sve urađeno u novom KDE-u http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan

Detaljna najava za KDE 4.1:http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.1/

Download: http://www.kde.org/info/4.1.0.php

Srecan rodjendan Fedora

Danas 24.09.2008. Fedora proslavlja pet godina postojanja, sa oko 4.000.000 korisnika fedora, na oko tri puta vise racunara.

Zahvaljujuci izuzetnom radu volontera oko 75% korisnika Fedore, koriste je na svojim maternjim (neengleskim) jezicima, a sajt fedore je sada dostupan na vise od dvadeset jezika, od kojih je jedan i Srpski (cirilica i latinica). Ovo dovoljno govori o ozbiljnosti Fedora Projekta, volji mase volontera i zajednici.