Tuesday, September 7, 2010

"G" for "GODDARD"

Fedora 13

Fedora 13, codenamed Goddard, was released on May 25, 2010.During early development Fedora project leader Paul Frields commented on Fedora 13 by saying that during the development they would "be looking at the fit and finish issues. We have tended to build a really tight ship with Fedora, but now we want to make the décor in the cabins a little more sumptuous and to polish the deck chairs and railings.
Some of the features in Fedora 13 are:

Automatic printer driver installation

Automatic language pack installation

Redesigned user account tool

Color management to calibrate monitors and scanners

Experimental 3D support for NVIDIA video cards

A new way to install Fedora over the Internet

SSSD authentication for users

Updates to NFS

Inclusion of Zarafa Open Source edition

System rollback for the Btrfs file system

Better SystemTap probes

Support for the entire Java EE 6 spec in Netbeans 6.8

KDE PulseAudio Integration

New Command Line interface for NetworkManager

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