New in Fedora Core 5 [LWN.net]

Fedora Core 5 is due out on March 20 according to the current schedule. We looked at the latest draft of the release notes to see what has changed since Fedora Core 4. First and foremost among those is the latest version of the GNOME desktop. Here's a look at GNOME 2.14 which will be included in FC5. The GNOME Power Manager and GNOME Screensaver will be available as a technology preview. Behind the screen, this release will use gnome-mount, which interacts with hal directly to control user mounted volumes, instead of fstab-sync.

KDE fans will find KDE 3.5.1 on their desktop. Other new software includes OpenOffice.org 2.0.2, Firefox 1.5. Pup,the package updater has been joined by Pirut. Pirut replaces system-config-packages, providing comprehensive software package management using yum as a backend. The Anaconda installer has also been revamped to use yum.

Also new is Beagle - an index-based search interface, f-spot - a photo management tool and tomboy - a note taking application. I18N support has been improved with the SCIM language input framework, replacing IIIMF for inputting many different non-English languages. Totem now uses the improved Gstreamer 0.10 media framework for a better multimedia experience.

Lots of work has gone into integrating Xen Virtualization software with the yum package manager to provide remote logging and improved support for tracebacks. Modular Xorg X11R7.0 has been included in this release. The entire set of Fedora packages have been compiled with the newly included gcc 4.1. Also the SELinux implementation has undergone a major change, and now uses the Reference Policy.

Overall, Fedora Core 5 will provide users with a wide variety of the latest free applications and as such it may also have a few rough edges.

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New in Fedora Core 5

Posted Mar 20, 2006 11:12 UTC (Mon) by alspnost (subscriber, #2763) [Link]

Say that again - unfortunately, Fedora tends to be one big "rough edge". I don't really consider it a usable distribution any more; it's a technology demonstration, and very nice as such, but I couldn't entrust my daily computing needs to it.

New in Fedora Core 5

Posted Mar 21, 2006 5:30 UTC (Tue) by pimlott (subscriber, #1535) [Link]

Release notes say

Xen Virtualisation software and yum package manager are now well integrated within the Fedora installer. The installer interface is more streamlined. Remote logging and improved support for tracebacks is included.

LWN article says

Lots of work has gone into integrating Xen Virtualization software with the yum package manager to provide remote logging and improved support for tracebacks.

This summary sounds like a mish-mash of what are in reality four independent features of the installer. If even any two of Xen, yum, remote logging, and tracebacks are connected, I'd be very curious to hear about it.