The following CPU specifications are stated in terms of Intel processors. Other processors, such as those from AMD, Cyrix, and VIA that are compatible with and equivalent to the following Intel processors, may also be used with Fedora. Fedora 14 requires an Intel Pentium Pro or better processor, and is optimized for i686 and later processors.

The complete packages can occupy over 9 GB of disk space. Final size is entirely determined by the installing spin and the packages selected during installation. Additional disk space is required during installation to support the installation environment. This additional disk space corresponds to the size of /Fedora/base/stage2.img (on Installation Disc 1) plus the size of the files in /var/lib/rpm on the installed system.

In practical terms, additional space requirements may range from as little as 90 MiB for a minimal installation to as much as an additional 175 MiB for a larger installation.

Additional space is also required for any user data, and at least 5% free space should be maintained for proper system operation.

To provide feedback on Fedora software or other system elements, please refer to Bugs And Feature Requests. A list of commonly reported bugs and known issues for this release is available from Common F14 bugs, on the wiki.

If you feel these release notes could be improved in any way, you can provide your feedback directly to the beat writers. There are several ways to provide feedback, in order of preference:

Fedora 14 includes the updated KDE SC ("Software Compilation") version 4.5. The KDE developers worked on usability and stability for version 4.5. The result is a faster, easier, and more stable desktop experience. Many bugs are fixed and subtle but important improvements made to hidden components, so KDE now works the way you want.

Lightweight X Desktop Environment, or LXDE, is available in Fedora 14.

Changes to LXDE include:

Fedora 14 contains a selection of software from the MeeGo™ project.

MeeGo™ is an operating environment and development kit for next-generation mobile and device platforms, formed from the merger of Intel's Moblin project and Nokia's Maemo project, and backed by the Linux Foundation. It includes a rich set of software and libraries that support multiple architectures and multiple app stores, and are well aligned with a variety of upstream free and open source software projects. Fedora 14 offers an integrated subset of software from the MeeGo project. Users can try the software on any personal computer, including netbooks or other small systems, and interested developers can contribute to the development of this exciting new platform. Note that a small portion of software from MeeGo is not included to improve integration with other Fedora applications, and therefore this subset is not expected to achieve 100% MeeGo compliance.

Fedora 14 includes the latest Sugar Learning Environment (0.90), including an enhanced activity set to provide a stable demo environment for Sugar as well as an environment for developers.

This version provides major usability improvements for the first login screen and the control panel, as well as new features such as support for 3G networks.

Version 7 of awstats beta is now available. This version allows detection of Windows 7 clients, can format numbers according to localization, and many other new features. These are detailed in the awstats-changelog.

Fedora 14 now includes chatzilla, an IRC client. chatzilla may be installed alone, or with chatzilla-gnome, allowing irc: addresses to be handled in GNOME.

clamz is new to Fedora. It is an open source replacement for Amazon's MP3 downloader. clamz may be used to download individual songs or complete albums that you have purchased from Amazon's Music Store.

For more informations, refer to clamz website.

claws-mail 3.7.6 includes new filtering features, a number of user interface enhancements, and several new translations. Refer to the summary news for of all the new features.

ekiga has been updated to 3.2.7. This release includes a large number of fixes, including a number of user-visible changes, mostly in the area of more sensible defaults. For complete details refer to the official ekiga release notes.

The emacs-w3m pager is now available, which has WWW capability. It is said to be faster than the old W3 browser, making it a preferable alternative.

For more informations, refer to emacs-w3m website.

eurephia is new to Fedora 14. eurephia is an authentication plug-in for OpenVPN. You may learn more, on eurephia's web-site.

gnome-applet-netspeed is just a little GNOME-applet that shows how much traffic occurs on a specified network device. gnome-applet-netspeed is new to Fedora 14. You can learn more, on gnome.org-netspeed web-site.

Also new to Fedora 14 is gnome-applet-remmina. This is a remote desktop client supporting RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH. Find out all about it at remmina.sourceforge.net.

gnome-gmail adds Gmail support to the GNOME desktop. Also new to Fedora 14, view here for the details.

maildirproc is a mail processing agent, with similar functionality to procmail, but unlike procmail, maildirproc operates on already delivered mail. For more information visit upstream site.

openconnect has been upgraded from version 2.22 to 2.24. In addition to bugfixes, there are a number of security enhancements. The full details may be reviewed at openconnect website.

Input-pad is a tool to input symbols and other characters hard to type with a keyboard.

eekboard is new virtual keyboard, which supports X keyboard layout switching.

The new ibus-handwrite package supports on-screen input of Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji characters.

Users of input-methods upgrading from earlier versions of Fedora may need to install GTK3 versions of their GTK immodules, like ibus-gtk3, in order for input-methods to continue working normally on their desktop.

im-chooser (via imsettings) now allows to fully disable input-methods for users that do not need XIM for X locale compose support: so Unicode input with Control+Shift+u works again in GTK applications by default when not using input-methods like ibus.

The amarok music player has been updated to 2.3.1 with new features like an automated playlist generator, a context view and an upcoming events view. The amarok.kde.org website may be reviewed for additional details.

audacity has been upgraded to 1.3.12. Included are user interface improvements, the ability to import file lists, and more. The complete details may be found in the official audacity features-1.3, on the website.

The calibre bookreader 0.7.10 includes more customization options, saving of column layouts and more.

Refer to the full details for all the changes since 0.6.42.

New to Fedora 14, clementine is a full featured music player and library organizer. clementine is a port of an old favorite version of amarok, with additional features.

For more informations, refer to clementine website.

gst123 is a command line player intended to be simple and small. It understands all formats supported by gstreamer.

For more informations, refer to gst123 website.

radiotray, also new to Fedora 14, is a simple radio streaming player. Details may be found at radiotray.sourceforge.net

xnoise is yet another media player, this time with a different view on managing audio tracks. More information on this player may be found at xnoise-media-player.com.

bsp, the most popular node builder for Doom, is now available in Fedora. Information on bsp's capabilities, as well as instructions, may be found at games.moria.org.uk:bsp.

The Fantastic League of Almighty Wizards is now available in Fedora. Refer to flaw.sourceforge.net for complete details.

hedgewars-server version 0.9.12 is now available in Fedora. Learn about hedgewars, and review the official trailer, at hedgewars.org website

Also new to Fedora is pmars. For more informations refer to koth.org:pmars website.

vor (Variations on Rockdodger) is new to Fedora 14. This is a fast-paced, simple game reminiscent of Asteriods. Find more informations on the website.

OpenSCAP is an open-source framework for SCAP developers. SCAP is a line of standards managed by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). It was created to provide a standardized approach to maintaining the security of systems, such as automatically verifying the presence of patches, checking system security configuration settings, and examining systems for signs of compromise.

The SCAP suite contains multiple complex data exchange formats that are to be used to transmit important vulnerability, configuration, and other security data. Historically, there have been few tools that provide a way to query this data in the needed format. The OpenSCAP project aims to create a framework of libraries to improve the accessibility of SCAP and enhance the usability of the information it represents.

The tools based on OpenSCAP library which are included in this Fedora feature are:

With this feature installed, the user can use different ways to perform automatic scan of his system and make sure the system is in compliance with defined security configuration. The user is enabled to automatically remediate the system.

Fedora 14 and later versions will now be available for users of the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud service.

For more information, refer to:

The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is used for client-server communication and enhances interaction with virtual machine guests. Spice adds a QXL display device to QEMU and provides drivers for this device for both X and Windows.

The Spice framework for desktop virtualization aims to provide a complete open source solution for interaction with virtualized desktops.

For more information, refer to:

virt-v2v is a command line tool that enables Xen domUs (ie. guests) to be migrated to use KVM. Users with Xen guests can try out KVM. Users can also migrate from Xen to KVM for its enhanced ease of use.

For more information, refer to:

Varnish was updated to 2.1.3. Improvements include better scalability and a new log function.

The main changes you can read here, from Varnish website.

httpd was updated from 2.2.14 to 2.2.16. This version includes mod and security fixes, and core change: For more information refer to CHANGES 2.2 from Apache website.

ipmiutil performs a series of common IPMI server management functions to allow administrators to perform management functions without a learning curve. It can gather FRU inventory data, SEL firmware log, sensors, watchdog, power control, health, monitoring, and has an SOL console. It can write sensor thresholds, FRU asset tags, and supports a full IPMI configuration save/restore. Ease-of-use examples with ipmiutil: configuring the IPMI LAN requires a single command, and a soft-reboot can be easily performed instead of a hard reboot. This utility can use various existing IPMI drivers, or run in driverless mode, which is useful for boot media or test environments. The decoding of IPMI events includes a severity, and any events not recognized at least return the data, rather than just Unknown. Features compared to other IPMI packages: http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/docs/ipmisw-compare.htm

Due to problems with vbetool, this package has been removed from the default installation of Fedora. This change may impact users with suspending and resuming their computers. These problems should only affect users of uncommon VGA adaptors and not users of nVidia, ATI, or Intel adaptors.

The latest version of evdev, version 2.5, changed the default for the middle mouse button emulation code. This change has disabled emulation of the middle mouse button by clicking the left and right mouse buttons.

        Section "InputClass"
	  Identifier "middle button emulation class"
	  MatchIsPointer "on"
	  Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
	EndSection

Fedora 14 introduces support for D, a systems programming language combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages such as Ruby and Python.

For more details, refer to D Programming Language.

The GNUstep development environment arrives on Fedora, allowing easy development of cross-platform applications on Fedora using the Cocoa (formerly NeXTSTEP/OpenStep) APIs and tools. GNUstep's main development language is Objective-C, but GNUstep is not limited to that.

These features complete a rich set of development tools that further extends the possibilities for developers. For a complete list of the hundreds of updated development components see the Fedora 14 Technical Notes at http://docs.fedoraproject.org.

The boost C++ libraries have been upgraded to 4.4. which includes numerous changes. For details, see the release notes:

Some key features include new libraries for UML2 FSMs, Polygons, Factory and Forward adapters, and a UUID library. Existing libraries have been updated with many new features as well as performance improvements.

The libjpeg library has been replaced by libjpeg-turbo library which has same API/ABI but is at least twice faster on all primary architectures and about 25% faster on secondary architectures. For more details view libjpeg-turbo, on the Fedora wiki.

D is a systems programming language. Its focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. The D language is statically typed and compiles directly to machine code. It's multiparadigm, supporting many programming styles: imperative, object oriented, and metaprogramming. It's a member of the C syntax family, and its appearance is very similar to that of C++.

For more informations:

The system python 2 stack has been upgraded to 2.7. For a list of changes see Whats new in 2.7.

>>> import warnings
>>> warnings.simplefilter('error')
>>> warnings.simplefilter('default', PendingDeprecationWarning)

python-migrate was updated to version 0.6. Support for SQLAlchemy 0.6 and Firebird database, custom templates and use of python logging are among many new features. New version also introduces some backwards incompatible changes: For complete list of changes refer to the changelog

New version of Erlang/OTP is available in Fedora 14. For details, view Erlang R14, on the Fedora wiki.

gdb has been enhanced to remove the unncecessary indices from the .debug files, and will replace them with an index that greatly speeds up gdb.

The gdb debugger has been extended with new commands that make it easier to track down and fix excessive memory usage within programs and libraries. This functionality was created by Fedora contributor David Malcolm, and we believe it is unique to Fedora 14.

For more informations, refer to Gdb Index, on the Fedora wiki.

This Feature offers the possibility to create GNUstep applications on Fedora. GNUstep is an open source reimplementation of Nextstep. It's provide an GUI framework base of the Objective-C programming language.

The Objective-C programming language is part of the GNU compiler collection (gcc).

A list of applications based on GNUstep you may find at List of GNUstep applications.

Detailed introduction to the GNUstep project you may find at GNUstep Introduction.

Notable changes in perl 5.12 include:

Perl 5.12.x features numerous new features, optimizations and bugfixes. You can find a complete list of these changes on the web at:

Changelog perl-5.12.0

Original Release Notes perl-5 (2010/04)

Fedora comes with Rakudo Perl, an implementation of the Perl 6 specification based on the Parrot virtual machine, which enables developers to write new applications or port existing ones to Perl 6. To install rakudo, use the Add/Remove Software tool or run:su -c 'yum install rakudo'For information of command line options run: man perl6man rakudo

For more indormation, view Fedora 14 Feature: Rakudo * .

The Lisp sources for the emacs bash debugger, emacs-bashdb-el are now included in Fedora. The debugger has been upgraded to version 4.1_0.4.

New to Fedora 14 is pyjamas, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) Development Platform for both Web and Desktop. Read all about this new capability at pyjs.org website.

Fedora 14 includes version 4.5 of gcc and the various compilers which depend on gcc. The full details of the changes my be found in the Change Logs, but some main points follow.

Reference the changes page above for more details on these and other optimizations.

There are new language-specific features for Ada, C, C++, Fortran and Java.

There are new target processors within the AIX, ARM, AVR, IA32, M68K, MeP, MIPS, RS/6000 and RX processor families.

The move to autotools has resulted in some artifacts changing the directories where they are found. For details, as in all of the above details, refer to the changes page.

NetBeans IDE 6.9 is a significant update of NetBeans IDE 6.8.

NetBeans IDE 6.9 introduces OSGi interoperability for NetBeans Platform applications and support for developing OSGi bundles with Maven; support for JavaFX SDK 1.3 with new JavaFX Composer, a visual layout tool for visually building JavaFX GUI applications, similar to the Swing GUI builder for Java SE applications, also support for PHP Zend framework, and Ruby on Rails 3.0; as well as improvements to the Java Editor, Java Debugger, issue tracking, and more.

For more about this release, refer to:

yydebug, a debugger for parser code generated by jay is new to Fedora. For full details review yyDebug from cs.rit.edu.

The Morse code tutor, aldo now includes support for additional punctuation, better sound card selection, and uses a new Koch sequence.

fldigi 3.20.20 includes a large number of changes, new features and bug fixes. Find more on the complete list of features and in change log.

linpsk now includes support for RTTY and MFSK, and uses a new graphics layer to improve performance. Logging may be done through LinLog.

New to Fedora 14 is twlog. This is a simple day-to-day logger rather than a complex contesting logger. The menus can be customized to make operation quicker. Details on twlog may be found at twlog website.

xwxapt has been upgraded to version 2. The sound card code has been dramatically rewritten and should reduce issues with sound cards.

gtkwave has been upgraded to 3.3.10. New features include a VCD recorder, dynamic zlib compression, support for dual view of waveforms, the ability to use the viewer as a plugin for external applications and more. Review CHANGELOG.TXT for full details.

2010.05.27 of kicad now includes the ability to edit footprint names, enhancements in SVG format output, and VRML export. For details refer to the CHANGELOG.

ngspics 21 includes a compatibility mode for working with other simulators, additional devices, a "pipe" mode and tabulated output. Documentation is now available in pdf form. Read all about it at ngspice website.

piklab includes a number of new features including:

For complete details including the list of many bug fixes, refer to the changelog at piklab website.

Fedora 14 moves from jack to jack2, formerly called jackdmp. jack2 offers many improvements over previous versions available in Fedora. Current jack-capable programs can take advantage of these improvements without modification.

The move to jack2 is another example of the behind-the-scenes improvements that are a part of Fedora 14.

Created as a Fedora Summer Coding project, the Fedora Musicians' Guide is released for the first time with Fedora 14. The Musicians' Guide shows you how to use several popular audio and music applications available in Fedora, and it explains some basic concepts you need to know when using audio software on any computer.

Each application has a tutorial, designed to show a typical use of the application by creating an actual musical project. In the Ardour tutorial, for example, you learn how to mix and master a recording of a real song. In the Qtractor tutorial, you learn how to create a MIDI-based accompaniment for a recording of a Beethoven piano sonata.

More advanced users - especially programmers who wish to create music - will appreciate the detailed coverage of SuperCollider, a programming language designed for audio synthesis. The tutorial shows you how to create a piece of music, from inspiration to completion. There is also a section explaining the syntax and usage of many language features, designed to be used as an introduction to SuperCollider, and as a reference while you program. Combined with the extensive documentation available from the developers, the Musicians' Guide chapter help to make SuperCollider on Fedora easier than ever!

All musicians who want to improve their skills will want to use the ear-training application Solfege. Solfege offers a wide variety of exercises, from hearing and singing intervals and chords, to taking dictation of a series of chords, or even detecting a tuning discrepancy between pitches. Whether you want to build your aural skills for the first time or just want help in maintaining them, Solfege can help you.

The Musicians' Guide is available from the Docs Project Website, located at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/.

Qsynth is a graphical front-end for the FluidSynth software-based MIDI synthesizer. Qsynth lets you take advantage of the full capabilities of FluidSynth more easily. You can change all aspects of a FluidSynth setup, and even run multiple instances of the FluidSynth synthesizer, from within one Qsynth window.

Qsynth is explained in Chapter 10, "FluidSynth" of the new Musicians' Guide (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/).

New to Fedora14, gtick is a metronome application supporting different meters and speeds up to 1000 bpm.

Review here all the details.

Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawings, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text. Labels and equations are typeset with LaTeX, for high-quality PostScript output. Fedora-14 includes version-2.04 with many bug fixes. Files generated in in-line tex mode can now be renamed without editing their contents.

For more details, asymptote.sourceforge.net.

Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information. Its flexibility, sophistication, and power allow you to easily develop your own commands and create highly customized graphs. Version-4.4.4 has been rebuilt for wxGTK-2.8.11 in Fedora 14.

For more details, extrema, on the project website.

Gnumeric has been updated from 1.10.0-1 to 1.10.2-4. The changes include a rebuild for new Goffice and bugfixes.

For more details, gnome: gnumeric.

Gnuplot is a command-line driven, interactive function plotting program especially suited for scientific data representation. Gnuplot has been updated to the 4.4 series (view release-notes 4.4.0). Relative the 4.2 version, this version features smoother graphics based on the pango, cairo, and wxWidgets libraries, client-side interactive display using the HTML 5 "canvas" element, better internationalization, support for UTF-8 character encoding, support for transparency and alpha-channel image generation and handling, support for extended command line syntax, including iteration and new plot styles. Further PNG images can be read in and manipulated as plot elements. Gnuplot-py is a GUI for this program.

For more details, gnuplot website.

Mathomatic is a portable, general-purpose computer algebra system (CAS). The software does automatic manipulations and calculations of mixed symbolic/numeric mathematical expressions, allowing quick and easy solving, differentiation and simplification. Version-15.1.3 features a number of improvements including improved overflow handling and support for Mathematica-style input.

For more details, mathomatic website.

Maxima is a full featured symbolic and mathematical computation program with its own source level debugger for maxima code. Maxima has been updated from version 5.20.1 to 5.21.1 in Fedora-14. The latest build includes plot3d for plotting multiple surfaces and has built-in spherical transformations. Bessel, Riemann Zeta, signum and hypergeometric functions have all been extended or revised. Many bug fixes have been included in this version.

For more details, maxima website.

The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT: mrpt-apps) is an extensive, cross-platform, and open source C++ library aimed to help robotics researchers to design and implement algorithms in the fields of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), computer vision, and motion planning (obstacle avoidance). The latest version 0.9.0-0.5 has been rebuilt against wxGTK-2.8.11-2. The rebuild was necessitated by the new version of Opencv.

For more details, mrpt.org on project website.

The Prover9 package provides the Prover9 resolution/paramodulation theorem prover and the Mace4 counter-model generator. Prover9 is an automated theorem prover for first-order and equational logic. It uses the inference techniques of ordered resolution and paramodulation with literal selection. The package has been updated to upstream version 200911a. The following have also been added: prover9-complex, prover9-gen_trc_defs and prover9-test_complex.

For more details, prover9 on cs.unm.edu website.

The R environment is an integrated suite of FOSS facilities for data manipulation, statistical computation, knowledge discovery from databases, data analysis, scientific computing and graphical display. R has been updated to version 2.11.1 in Fedora-14. A large number of new R packages have also been added to the Fedora repository.

For more details, R on project website.

New to Fedora 14 is root, an object-oriented open-source platform for data acquisition, simulation and data analysis systems developed by CERN.

Complete details about this package, which includes many plugins for data acquisition, may be found at CERN.

Scientific Python is a collection of Python modules for scientific computing. The latest version 2.8.11 includes numpy-1.4.0.

For more details, Scientific Python: Overview on project website.

Texlive is an advanced comprehensive implementation of TeX for GNU/Linux and the Unices. Texlive-2007 is included in Fedora-14. The latest build features minor bugfixes. You can also install TeXlive-2009 from the Texlive-2009 DVD with no hassles.

For more details, texlive on project website.

VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show reasoning patterns. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts. Release-1.12.7 features a number of visualization improvements.

For more details, VYM (View Your Mind) on project website.

Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied directly to a dataset or called from your own Java code. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. It is also well-suited for developing new machine learning schemes. Weka has been updated to version 3.2.6-4 with important bug fixes.

For more details, weka on project website.