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First Fedora 13 Linux Alpha Shows Promise
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| For Enterprise users, the new Dogtag
| Certificate System is something that could
| represent an innovative approach to handling
| security credentials. According to Fedora's
| project description, Dogtag is an
| enterprise-class open source Certificate
| Authority (CA) supporting all aspects of
| certificate lifecycle management including
| key archival, OCSP and smartcard management.
|
| The other item I find interesting in the
| Fedora 13 release cycle is the new
| boot.fedoraproject.org. (BFO) effort. Think
| of it as pxeboot on steroids for network
| installs.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/03/first-fedora-13-linux-alpha-sh.html
The Direction Of Intel Graphics With Fedora 13 Alpha
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| Fedora 13 Alpha was released yesterday with
| a plethora of new features and updated
| packages for this Red Hat Linux
| distribution. Aside from the features like
| Btrfs system rollback support and PolicyKit
| One support for Qt/KDE applications to
| excite end-users, each Fedora release always
| pulls in the very latest Linux graphics
| code. Fedora was the first distribution
| shipping with the Nouveau driver, then its
| KMS driver, and now with Fedora 13 it's the
| first OS deploying Nouveau's Gallium3D
| driver (there's benchmarks behind that
| link). Fedora 13 is also carrying the latest
| packages for the unreleased X Server 1.8,
| DisplayPort monitor support for more
| graphics cards, the latest ATI driver code
| from the xf86-video-ati DDX to the in-
| development DRM, and then there is the very
| latest Intel work too. To get an idea for
| the direction that the Intel 3D support is
| heading in this release, we have carried out
| a few quick OpenGL benchmarks.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_13_earlygpu&num=1
Some cool features in Fedora 13, Goddard
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| System Rollback feature with Btrfs
|
| Btrfs lets you take light weight snapshots
| of the filesystem which can be mounted or
| booted into selectively. This means, before
| doing something crazy with your system, you
| can easily take a snapshot of the partition
| and in case something bad happens, just boot
| into the older snapshot.
|
| In Fedora 13, codenamed Goddard, if you have
| selected one or more partitions as btrfs,
| then it will automatically create new
| snapshots with every yum operation. You will
| also be allowed to select which snapshot to
| boot into. This is indeed an amazing
| addition.
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http://linuxers.org/article/some-cool-features-fedora-13-goddard
Fedora 13âs Artwork â Need Your Help for F13 Beta!
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| So now that Fedora 13 Alpha is outâ. have
| you given it a try? What do you think about
| the wallpaper? We want to hear your
| feedback, because there isnât actually that
| much time to update the wallpaper for beta,
| I think a little over a week. We havenât
| gotten much feedback about it yet, so we
| need to hear from you now!
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http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/fedora-13s-artwork-need-your-help-for-f13-beta/
Recent:
Rock it - The first pre-release version of Fedora 13 arrives
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| One week later than scheduled, the Fedora
| Project has released the first and only alpha
| version of its Fedora 13 Linux distribution,
| aka Goddard, which is scheduled for release in
| mid May. With the feature freeze having come
| into effect a month ago, the first pre-release
| version of the distribution, which is being
| advertised under the release slogan "Rock it",
| now contains all major features likely to find
| their way into Fedora 13.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Rock-it-The-first-pre-release-version-of-Fedora-13-arrives-950243.html
F13 Alpha release announcement
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_Alpha_release_announcement?stF13a
Fedora 13: Punny Stuff
http://www.the-source.com/2010/03/fedora-13-punny-stuff/
NVIDIA Has Gallium3D Support In Fedora 13
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| While it's exciting to have kernel mode-
| setting, RandR, and EXA / X-Video
| acceleration for NVIDIA hardware in an open-
| source driver that is reliable since the
| mainlining of its DRM code and its adoption
| in Ubuntu 10.04 and other distributions,
| Fedora has already employed Nouveau support
| to various extents in their recent releases.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzk4MQ
Fedora 13 Features Preview
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| Goddard is the codename for the latest
| version of the bleeding edge Linux
| distribution, Fedora 13. Eve before the
| release of Fedora 12 there were new feature
| plans for Fedora 13. New features continue
| to be added to the feature plans of Fedora
| 13 scheduled for a planned release on May
| 11, 2010. The Fedora 13 feature list
| includes a number of features that didn't
| make it in time for Fedora 12. The feature
| list includes NFSv4 protocol by default,
| support for mounting NFS servers over IPv6,
| and yum language package plug-in. It's
| almost time for Fedora 13 feature freeze
| and we hardly expect any new last minute
| additions. With most accepted Fedora 13
| features highlighted on Fedora Project Wiki
| we decided to provide a comprehensive
| preview of the Linux distribution.
|
| [...]
|
| Fedora 13 would offer enhanced support for
| DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers for
| NVIDIA hardware. DisplayPort offers a
| higher link bandwidth than dual-link DVI.
| Monitors can easily take advantage of this
| by providing higher resolutions, higher
| color depths, and higher refresh rates. The
| DisplayPort will also run at a lower
| voltage than DVI and LVDS, and uses lesser
| power. The future laptops will likely
| switch to embedded DisplayPort for the
| local panel for this reason. With this
| feature, Fedora users can take advantage of
| the the technical superiority of
| DisplayPort.
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http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fedora-13-features-preview/
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