Fedora Core 3

What's new with Core 3

(really also, RHEL4)

and the community

FC3 – Suggested goals

SELinux – targeted, strict

GNOME 2.8 & KDE 3.3

IIIMF; Indic language support

system-switch-im

Evolution 2.0

Remote desktop support

GCC 3.4

Impacts, schedule

Fedora Core 3 released a little late

November 8th 2004 was the big day

Fedora Core 1 updates have ceased

It's time to move to Fedora Legacy

Participants are required

http://www.fedoralegacy.org/

http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ is (currently) for FL-related bugs

New stuff!

bzflag – new game

Aiksaurus – thesaurus

Pyrex – for Python extensions/modules

ecj – Eclipse! (compiler only...)

crash & valgrind

HelixPlayer

Firefox

howl, libtheora, vino, libgnomedb, gnome-keyring-manager, gnome-volume-manager, NetworkManager, evolution-connector, evolution-webcal, dasher, gnome-nettool

hal

SELinux

Default option - “Active”

Read up on it now

http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/selinux-faq-en/

http://www.lurking-grue.org/GettingStartedWithNewSELinuxHOWTO.pdf

selinux-policy-targeted (default)

works, been tested a lot

selinux-policy-strict

good to have some SELinux knowledge

Media Handling

Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), with DBUS (messaging system) implemented now

No more buggy FAM – gamin replaces it

magicdev leaves too

/media and /srv exist now

HAL uses /media, rather than /mnt

This is more FHS like

gnome-volume-manager

gnome-volume-properties dialog

Along with HAL, udev, gnome-volume-manager, and gamin (which are abstracted from the user), media handling is a breeze

GNOME: Nautilus

View -> As Image

Collection has since

been removed from

the Eye-of-GNOME

(eog) since 2.8

so this view no longer

applies.

GNOME...

System Monitor now has more information for you

(especially useful in explaining why it seems memory

usage is always high!)

Evolution gets migrated! The

migration is non-destructive, and

your old data will not get deleted

(unless you specifically mention)

Evolution 2

Built-in junk

mail checking

by calling

upon

SpamAssassin.

(GNOME) Network Monitor

NetworkManager

GNOME upstream, written by RH

Designed to run in the background with user never having to know...

/etc/init.d/NetworkManager

The Keyring Manager

Simplest keyring manager, that came as a result of the gnome-love project.

Remote Desktops (vino)

You can now

share your desktop

over the Internet,

and allow others

to “control” your

desktop.

Vino is the name

provided for the

GNOME VNC

server.

Anaconda, now with LVM

Anaconda, the installer

now sports LVM

configurations when

using the AutoPartition

option.

Logical Volume

Management (LVM) is

at version 2, and uses

the device mapper

kernel drivers. Its useful

for resizing & moving

around at will, and FC3

is to sport ext3fs resizing

at will*.

Bootloaders

system-config-bootloader: new

tool to manage which kernel gets

booted by default.

GRUB handles booting LVM

volumes without issues.

GRUB now sports a new

splashscreen – so by default

it just boots the selected boot

configuration, rather than

showing the end users all

possible options.

Removed package overview

gqview - gThumb

licq – GAIM is more widely used

tomcat – JSP reference implementation

Chromium (game)

The Community

Is alive and kicking

5,800 on fedora-list, 1,565 on fedora-devel-list, 2,330 on fedora-test-list

FedoraForum has over 10,000 members

Fedora News Updates gets over 20,000 reads whenever its released

IRC channels are usually packed

and #fedora is usually very noisy

Community II

http://fedoraproject.org/

The future fedora.redhat.com

currently has the Fedora People

http://fedoraproject.org/people/

Wiki

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

CMS to go into place soon

Extras will get properly defined soon

Where's CVS?

The system is in place, and the switches have been flipped (really)

Spent last weekend working on it...

Wait for the announcement this week :)

I wanna try it!

Download it from download.fedora.redhat.com!

Or use the torrent at http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/

How to help (test releases)

Get on fedora-test-list@redhat.com

and read the archives, if required

Bugzilla is your friend!

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Watch the FC3 Trackers:

#123268 (FC3Target – FC3 target tracker)

#130887 (FC3Blocker – FC3 suck-free)

#131589 (YellowPad – desktop suck-free)

How to help II

Perform Everything installs – they're more fun

If you have several testing machines:

mirror Rawhide onto a box

burn boot.iso and install via NFS/HTTP/FTP

Buy a CDRW – it'll save you money!

Some strange bug reports

#127369

#129572

Thank You!

Colin Charles

byte@bytebot.net

http://www.bytebot.net/

2004-08-19T16:56:48