Whats really new ?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Thu Oct 23 17:03:52 UTC 2003
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:42:11PM +0200, Lasse Kim Christiansen wrote:
> But suddenly it dawned on me ? Is there any real news in Fedora Core ?
>
> - Kernel update (well, we're kinda used to that)
The biggest 'new' feature this time round kernel-wise is probably
exec-shield. This is also in RHEL, but isn't as new, nor has all
the features that the FC version has.
Additionally, theres laptop-mode, and a few other new kernel goodies.
(Release notes has more info)
> What about the interactivity patches ? have they been compiled into the new
> kernel ?
We have a backport of the O(1) scheduler changes that recently went into
2.6, which seem to be working out quite well.
> Neither firestarter nor guarddog is included ? I would think that intergrating
> some kind of personal firewalling thingy would be beneficial. The original tool
> included within redhat-config-packages does not seem to do that much. And
> monitoring like you can with watchdog would be great !
Agreed. I'd personally like to see something along these lines for FC2.
> Was there not something about Fedora being a "bleeding-edge" distribution ?
Sure, but with just a few weeks until the final iso's are created, there
comes a time when you have to cut off on updates, and start QA.
> One thing which i'm awaiting with much anticipation is the ability to use yum
> and apt repositories. FINALLY .... that will make life several hundred times
> easier combined with up2date for day2day updates.
up2date has done this for a while now. In fact, latest rawhide pulls are
done using yum.
> I just think that fedora could do better !
We're working on it 8-)
For FC1 it was kinda difficult for a lot of outside-Red-Hat folks to get
involved with some aspects of the project. For FC2, hopefully we'll have
the infrastructure in place to make external input happen a lot easier.
> PS: Now that i've complained i've gotta do my part. Downloading as we speak to
> help with as much bug hunting (probably the only thing i can help with) before
> the final release :-)
Every little helps 8-)
Dave
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