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Fedora 13
better hardware enablement -- latest kernels, but this time there's also
There's a much more solid hardware enablement story in f13, one example is that we now have 3d acceleration support in the nevou (free nvidia) driver joins radeon and intell drivers
what you're going to see is a new boot screen smooth fade to login screen, turn on 3d desktop etc.
Gnome 3 -- will offer more 3d trickes
3d support is important because we're moving toward different kinds of interfaces -- the right way to do it is not making hacks to the kernel so propr drivers work, but writing great free drivers.
propertary driver prone to crashes that can't be debugged (because who knows what's in it).
we would rather put our time into makeing a better free driver so that anyone can modify, distribute etc
Fedora stands out from the crowd when it comes to free hardware drivers. "Our out of the box experience is going to be better."
auto find for print drivers (hot plugging)
Richard hughes created a color management stack. For the average person color management isn't a huge deal. Turn on your mointor and it's done. But graphics professionals and enthusiastist color management is a fine art. Fedora is quite a bit ahead of the crowd on this one, offering tools to create custom profiles from icc profiles. download from manufacture and load it into the new color management tools and you'll see true colors for your input device, be it a camera or printer or what have you.
we want a culture of contributeion, not just consumption.
Python programmers will be happy to know that Fedora 13 comes with a "parallel-installable" Python 3 environment that will make it easy for those looking to upgrade their code to test in both Python 2.6 and 3.0, without the need to install Python 3.0 from scratch.
-- one of the thingswe've tried to concentrate on is
there's also some new debugging tools that help with python code that relies heavily on c libraries (on place in GDB ) system tap
Fedora a heavy python user itself, so in some repects this is fedora scratching its own itch
Paul Frieds knows the people of fedora like no other person I've ever met in the linux community.
I've been running it since it was pre-alpha and I think its one of the strongest releases we've ever done.
fedora has a reputation as the linux you use when you grow up, when you get more sophisticated... but in fact that's not really true anymore. Fedora is easy to use for beginner and stable
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