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 -- Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
