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Fedora Release Notes

Version 7.0.1 (2007-05-31)

Copyright © 2007 Red Hat, Inc. and others

1. Welcome to Fedora
2. Release Highlights
2.1. Fedora Tour
2.2. New in Fedora
2.2.1. Spins
2.2.2. Desktop
2.2.3. Performance
2.2.4. System Administration
2.3. Road Map
3. Legal Notice
4. Feedback
4.1. Providing Feedback on Fedora Software
4.2. Providing Feedback on Release Notes
5. Installation Notes
5.1. Changes in Anaconda
5.2. Installation Related Issues
5.2.1. Sony VAIO Notebooks
5.2.2. IDE RAID
5.2.3. Multiple NICs and PXE Installation
5.2.4. HP ProLiant DL360 with Smart Array
5.3. Upgrade Related Issues
5.3.1. Disk partitions must be labeled
5.3.2. Upgrades versus fresh installations
6. Architecture Specific Notes
6.1. RPM multiarch support on 64-bit platforms (x86_64, ppc64)
6.2. PPC Specifics for Fedora
6.2.1. Hardware Requirements for PPC
6.2.2. 4 KiB Pages on 64-bit machines
6.2.3. The Apple keyboard
6.2.4. PPC installation notes
6.3. x86 Specifics for Fedora
6.3.1. Hardware requirements for x86
6.4. x86_64 Specifics for Fedora
6.4.1. Hardware requirements for x86_64
7. Fedora Live Images
7.1. Available Images
7.2. Usage Information
7.3. USB Booting
7.4. Differences From a Regular Fedora Install
8. Package Notes
8.1. PC Speaker Enabled
8.2. The cdrtools Packages is Replaced by cdrkit
8.3. EM8300 Drivers Default to ALSA
8.4. Gaim Renamed to Pidgin
8.5. Packages with ".fc6" Tag
8.6. Perl Package Split
8.7. Zope and Plone Not Yet Available
8.8. Unstable liferea x86_64 Package
8.9. Xfce URL opening focus issue
8.10. System Tools
8.10.1. Yum kernel handling plugin
8.10.2. apcupsd
8.11. Engineering and Scientific
8.11.1. paraview
8.12. ATA over Ethernet
8.13. Graphics
8.13.1. Handling of GIMP Plugins Contained in Other Packages
9. Linux Kernel
9.1. Version
9.2. Changelog
9.3. Kernel Flavors
9.4. Reporting Bugs
9.5. Preparing for Kernel Development
10. Fedora Desktop
10.1. Localized Common User Directories (xdg-user-dirs)
10.2. GNOME
10.3. KDE
10.4. Web Browsers
10.5. Mail Clients
10.6. Liberation Fonts
11. File Systems
12. Mail Servers
12.1. Sendmail
12.2. exim-sa
13. Development
13.1. Tools
13.1.1. GCC Compiler Collection
13.1.2. Eclipse
14. Security
14.1. General Information
14.1.1. SELinux
15. Java and java-gcj-compat
15.1. Handling Java and Java-like Packages
15.2. Handling Java Applets
15.3. Fedora and the JPackage Java Packages
15.4. Maven (v2)
16. Multimedia
16.1. Multimedia Players
16.2. Ogg and Xiph.Org Foundation Formats
16.3. MP3, DVD, and Other Excluded Multimedia Formats
16.4. CD and DVD Authoring and Burning
16.5. Screencasts
16.6. Extended Support through Plugins
17. Games and Entertainment
17.1. Haxima
18. Virtualization
18.1. Types of Virtualization
18.2. Guest Operating Systems
18.3. Changes to the Virtualization Packages
19. X Window System (Graphics)
19.1. X Configuration Changes
19.2. Intel Driver Notes
19.3. Third Party Video Drivers
20. Database Servers
20.1. MySQL
20.1.1. DBD Driver
20.2. PostgreSQL
21. Internationalization (i18n)
21.1. Language Installation
21.2. SCIM Input Method Defaults
22. Backwards Compatibility
22.1. Compiler Compatibility
23. Package Changes
24. Fedora Project
25. Colophon
25.1. Contributors
25.2. Production Methods

1. Welcome to Fedora

The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored and community supported open source project. Its goal is the rapid progress of free and open source software and content. The Fedora Project makes use of public forums, open processes, rapid innovation, meritocracy, and transparency in pursuit of the best operating system and platform that free and open source software can provide.

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