(2008-11-18) Fedora 10 宣传要点

Fedora 10 的宣传要点如下，请各 Fedora Ambassador 在组织聚会(local event)时注意。

1. 技术
* NetworkManager – 连接共享
* PackageKit – 新的开发阶段的开始，将加入大量新功能。支持搜索编码解码器(codec)。将支持搜索字体，搜索必要/推荐的应用程序等等。
* Plymouth/快速启动 – 过去 RHGB 比较慢，也很复杂。现在内核支持 mode setting，启动过程可以更美观，实现更简单。目前 ATI 显卡的 Plymouth 过渡效果最好，但是其他显卡也在不断改善。
* RPM 4.6 – 多年以来首次对 RPM 升级，修正大量错误，提供新功能，例如更大的 软件包，更好的错误处理和语法检查，支持 LZMA 压缩。
* 虚拟化 – 改进虚拟系统的远程安装与管理，存储准备(storage provisioning)。使大量使用虚拟化的组织可以实现中心化、自动化管理和托管。
* 应用(Appliance)工具 – AOS (Appliance OS) 和 ACT (Appliance 创建工具)，以及新的 “FEDORA REMIX” 标识一起，为 OEM，开发者和 ISV 提供了制作衍生版的基础。利用这些好用的、文档齐全的工具，用户可以将自己的技术与 Fedora 丰富的开源内容结合，构建自己的第三方应用。Fedora Remix 标识明确了 Fedora Project 的地位和重要作用。更多信息请访问 Thincrust 站点。
* SecTool 安全工具 – 检测系统的问题。SecTool 包含一系列测试，支持文本和图形界面，允许扩展你自己的测试。
其他特性见 Fedora 10 特性列表。

2. 亮点
* “Solar” 主题 – 熔融的蓝色星球蕴意无限的能量。主题由社区的美工组创建。
* GNOME 2.24，包含 GTD 工具 time tracker，更好的 deskbar，支持简洁列表和 tab 的 Nautilus 文件管理器，全新的 Ekiga 3.0 SIP 视讯软件。
* KDE 4.1.2，包含 KDE-PIM，改进的 Dophin 文件管理起和 Konqueror 浏览器，改善了窗口混合，使用 OpenStreetMap 的地球仪程序。
* 无失真的音频(Glitch-free)，由 PulseAudio 系统实现(需要内核和硬件支持)。PulseAudio 经过改进，延迟更少，响应更快，但是消耗更少能源(更少地唤醒 CPU)。

3. 社区
* 现在加入 Fedora 与加入任何一个社会化网站一样简单。点击 http://join.fedoraproject.org/ ，开始向 Fedora 做出贡献，改变这个世界！Fedora Project 大致有以下的方向：翻译，文档，美工，基础设施，打包，网站。
* 由于加入 Fedora 的过程得以简化，过去 8 个月内，我们的成员从 2000 名达到了 15000 名。成员拥有一个 SSH 帐号和免费的网页空间，还可以编辑 Fedora Project Wiki。

4. Fedora 中文用户组
* irc://irc.freenode/#fedora-cn 每周五 20:00 的聚会恢复举行。
* fedora-cn 邮件列表流量保持健康状态。
* http://bbs.fedora-zh.org FZUG 论坛成立，是 Activity 制度的第一个成果。
* http://news.fedora-zh.org Fuzzy! News 新闻站成立。
* 正在试行 Content 工作队列制度，为 bbs, news 和 wiki 输送内容。

原文见 Talking points for F10

Technical

• NetworkManager – Connection sharing makes it possible for one Fedora system to become a collaboration hub for everyone. With a single wired or mobile broadband connection, and a few mouse clicks, the user can create a new wireless ad-hoc network on a separate wireless network interface, which other nearby machines can use for Internet access.
• PackageKit – PackageKit has taken the next step on its development roadmap, with the first in a series of features that will enhance the free software desktop experience. PackageKit can now use a set of dependency information provided in RPM packages to search for codecs for supported media. PackageKit uses the repository configuration on the host machine to determine search locations, and after authorization by the user, installs and plays the media. In the Fedora 11 timeframe and beyond, PackageKit will develop additional capabilities for installing fonts and applications in the same fashion. These changes will give Fedora users an experience that surpasses every other operating system thanks to the openness of free software.
• Plymouth/faster boot – Starting the legacy RHGB takes quite a bit of time, memory and disk activity. It requires numerous graphical user interface pieces to load just a few messages and a progress bar and slows down booting significantly. The kernel’s new mode setting capability makes it possible to speed up the boot process, and offer a pleasant visual experience with crossfading. The full beauty of the loader in its initial Fedora 10 release will be best appreciated by people with recent ATI video cards, but Plymouth is being actively improved to extend the experience for even more users.
• RPM 4.6 – The first major update to RPM in a number of years, this upgrade contains an enormous number of bug fixes, enhancements, and new features such as much larger package sizes, better error handling and syntax checking, and experimental handling of more tightly compressed LZMA payloads.
• Virtualization improvements – This release features substantial improvements in remote installation and management of virtual hosts, and enhancements to storage provisioning. These new features enable centralization, automation and delegation in environments that rely heavily on virtualization.
• Appliance tools – The Appliance OS (AOS) and the Appliance Creation Tool (ACT), combined with the new “FEDORA REMIX” mark, allow OEMs, developers, and ISVs to create new and exciting offerings using comfortable and well-documented Fedora tools as a baseline. Users can combine outside technologies with Fedora’s enormous universe of free and open source software to build innovative and useful appliances. The Fedora Remix mark allows appliance builders to credit and drive interest in the Fedora Project, which helps advance the infrastructure on which they base their creations. More information is available at the Thincrust site.
• SecTool – This release of Fedora includes a new security auditing system that you can use to detect problems on your system before they become an even bigger problem. SecTool comes with a variety of tests to run against your system in text or graphical modes to assess security, but it is also incredibly modular so you can write tests to accommodate your special needs.

Full list of technical features appears here.

[编辑] New Hotness

• “Solar” Theme – Created by the Fedora Artwork team, this fresh and exciting new look for Fedora generates as much buzz energy as the nuclear furnace of a blue supergiant star. As with Waves and other previous Fedora themes, Solar has been created with free and open source tools and sources by a partnership of artists and designers in the community.
• GNOME 2.24 – Refer to the GNOME 2.24 release notes for complete information. Among the highlights:
  • New applets like the time tracker and a more powerful deskbar
  • A compact list view and tabbed browser support in the Nautilus file manager
  • The all-new Ekiga 3.0 telephony and videoconferencing application, which is built to be presence-aware and a better way to reach people using voice-over-IP protocols such as SIP.
• KDE 4.1.2 – Refer to the KDE 4.1.2 release announcement and the original KDE 4.1 announcement for complete information. Highlights include:
  • Restored and integrated KDE-PIM for complete personal data organization
  • New features in the Dolphin file manager and Konqueror web browser
  • Improvements to the compositing window manager
  • A globe application that interfaces with OpenStreetMap
• Glitch-free audio – PulseAudio is a sound system that handles multiple sources and destinations including over networks. PulseAudio in Fedora 10 is now more responsive due to its new low-latency design, but also consumes less power.

[编辑] Community

• It’s now as easy to join Fedora as any social networking site. Just click to http://join.fedoraproject.org/ and become part of the free software movement that is changing the world. Thousands of people are already members of Fedora. Why not join, and use your account to get involved in free software through one of our many community-powered groups?
  • Translation – bring Fedora to communities in other languages
  • Documentation – write helpful guidance to help people get the most from Fedora
  • Artwork – make Fedora beautiful with art and design
  • Marketing and Ambassadors – help spread Fedora to your local community
  • Infrastructure – help run the systems that power the Fedora Project
  • Packaging – help keep software free and easy to use for everyone
  • Websites – help design and set up effective web presence for Fedora
• We’ve gone from under 2,000 to over 15,000 project members in the last 8 months, since making the joining process dead-simple on the web site.
  • Project members immediately get an SSH account and free web space, and can immediately help write or edit on our wiki.