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Fedora Core Release Notes

Fedora Documentation Project


1. Welcome to Fedora Core
2. Release Highlights
2.1. Fedora Core 6 Tour
2.2. New in Fedora Core 6
2.2.1. Desktop
2.2.2. Performance
2.2.3. System Administration
2.2.4. System Level Changes
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. Kickstart Changes
5.3. Installation Related Issues
5.3.1. Sony VAIO Notebooks
5.3.2. IDE RAID
5.3.3. Multiple NICs and PXE Installation
5.4. Upgrade Related Issues
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. PPC Hardware Requirements
6.2.2. The Apple keyboard
6.2.3. PPC Installation Notes
6.3. x86 Specifics for Fedora
6.3.1. x86 Hardware Requirements
6.4. x86_64 Specifics for Fedora
6.4.1. x86_64 Hardware Requirements
7. Package Notes
7.1. GNOME Desktop Environment
7.2. Web Server
7.3. Ext3 File System Utilities
7.4. Licensing Audit
7.5. Kernel Headers
8. Linux Kernel
8.1. Version
8.2. Changelog
8.3. Kernel Flavors
8.4. Reporting Bugs
8.5. Following Generic Textbooks
8.6. Preparing for Kernel Development
8.7. Building Only Kernel Modules
9. Fedora Desktop
9.1. Desktop Effects
9.2. Software Management
9.3. GNOME
9.4. Web Browsers
9.5. Mail Clients
10. File Systems
11. Web Servers
12. Development
12.1. Runtime
12.2. Tools
12.2.1. Kernel header files
12.2.2. GCC Compiler Collection
12.3. Ruby
13. Security
13.1. General Information
13.2. SELinux
14. Java and java-gcj-compat
14.1. Handling Java and Java-like Packages
14.2. 64-bit JNI Libraries
14.3. Handling Java Applets
14.4. Fedora and the JPackage Java Packages
14.5. Eclipse
14.5.1. Non-packaged Plugins/Feature
15. Multimedia
15.1. Multimedia Players
15.2. Ogg and Xiph.Org Foundation Formats
15.3. MP3, DVD, and Other Excluded Multimedia Formats
15.4. CD and DVD Authoring and Burning
15.5. Screencasts
15.6. Extended Support through Plugins
16. Games and Entertainment
17. Virtualization
17.1. Types of Virtualization
17.2. Guest Operating Systems
17.3. Changes to the Xen Packages
18. X Window System (Graphics)
18.1. X Configuration Changes
18.2. Intel Driver notes
19. Database Servers
19.1. MySQL
19.2. PostgreSQL
20. Internationalization (i18n)
20.1. Input Methods
20.1.1. Language Installation
20.2. im-chooser
20.3. xinputrc
21. Backwards Compatibility
21.1. Compiler Compatibility
22. Package Changes
23. Fedora Extras - Community Package Repository
23.1. Using the Repository
23.2. About Fedora Extras
23.3. Package Updates
23.3.1. exim-sa
23.3.2. mail-notification
24. Fedora Legacy - Community Maintenance Project
25. Fedora Project - Freedom to the Core
26. Colophon
26.1. Contributors
26.2. Production Methods

1. Welcome to Fedora Core

  • Fedora is a set of projects sponsored by Red Hat and guided by the contributors. These projects are developed by a large community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software and standards. Fedora Core, the central Fedora project, is an operating system and platform based on Linux which is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute, now and forever.

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