This document provides information about Fedora 14, an open-source operating system. It discusses key facts about Fedora, new features in Fedora 14 like Spice and Mobility options, architectures supported, and questions for further discussion. It also provides background on Fedora and its relationship to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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8. Free and open source applications only

9. Free and open source infrastructure

10. Red Hat is the primary sponsor

11. Maintained by volunteers largely (~70%)

12. Nearly 15,000 installable software packages

13. Rapid progress of free and open source software

15. Friends

16. Features

17. First

19. SELinux

20. PulseAudio

21. PackageKit

22. Plymouth

23. DeviceKit

24. ABRT: Automatic Bug Reporting Tool

26. Internal infrastructure

27. Update system with announcements

29. Not on release media

31. Just Fedora

32. Open infrastructure

33. Public participation

34. Subset of packages on install media

35. Over half a dozen official spins

37. OLPC XO / SoaS / Education Spin

38. Moblin

39. Fedora Design Suite

40. KDE / LXDE / Xfce

41. Fedora Security Lab

42. Fedora Electronics Lab

43. Roll your own: http://spins.fedoraproject.org

45. Community Project

47. New release every six months and each release maintained for about 13 months

48. Updates include new features frequently

50. Red Hat maintained and supported

51. Small subset of Fedora – about 2,500 packages

52. New releases every 2 to 3 years and supported for 7 years

53. Updates focused on security and bug fixes only with selected backporting of new features

54. Derive value

56. Mobility options: Fedora 14 includes software from the MeeGo™ project which is designed to support platforms such as netbooks, nettops, and various embedded devices

57. Amazon EC2: For the first time since Fedora 8, Fedora will release on the EC2 cloud.

58. D Compiler: Support for D, a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python

59. 3D improvements to free Nouveau driver

60. Perl updated to 5.12

61. Python updated to 2.7

62. KDE version 4.5

63. NetBeans updated to version 6.9

65. Xen to KVM migration

66. NetBeans 6.9

67. Parallel-installable Python 3 stack (held over from Fedora 13)

68. Xen kernel support

69. Varnish update to 2.1.3

70. GNUStep support

71. Language-specific features for Ada, C, C++, Fortran and Java

72. Kernel – 2.6.35 at time of release Nov. 2

74. X86-64 requirements 256 MB RAM for text mode 512 MB RAM for graphical mode 512 MB or higher recommended

75. PowerPC Old and New World PowerPC (Old World with BootX) PlayStation 3 and Genesi Pegasos II

76. Questions? #fedora on FreeNode MarkDude on #fedora-ambassadors [email_address] Slides are available @ http://www.slideshare.net/markterranova/F14 Thanks to Larry Cafiero for the slides, and Zareason for the badges