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Ce e nou în Fedora 12?

Fedora 12 (Constantine) este plin de îmbunătațiri ce fac Linux mai bun ca niciodată pentru toate tipurile de utilizatori. Iată cîteva dintre noutațile pe care vă puteți aștepta să le vedeți cînd veți incerca Fedora 12.

Fedora aduce Empathy, un program de mesagerie instant care suportă conversații text, video și audio. Puteți discuta cu prietenii voștrii care sînt în rețelele AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk, Jabber, Live (MSN), MySpace și multe altele...

Suportul pentru dispozitive audio Bluetooth vă permite să savurati sunete pe calculator fara incomoditatea firelor. Într-adevar - puteți sta în picioare și țopăi cum vă place (sau să mergeți după o ceașcă de cafea) fară a pierde un ritm! Porniți o conversație audio online cu prietenii sau relaxați-vă cu cîteva melodii în Rhythmbox...

NetworkManager vă ajută să intrați pe internet și să stați online cînd sînteți pe drum. Cu suport extins pentru mobile broadband, tethering facil pentru telefoane cu Bluetooth și management integrat al parolelor, NetworkManager face ca navigarea și comunicațiile să fie la distanța unei singure apăsari de buton...

PackageKit găsește programe pentru voi, fie cînd căutați cum să deschideți fișiere primite de la prieteni sau vreți pur și simplu să explorați cele peste 15.000 de pachete furnizate gratis de Fedora...

Suportul pentru tablete grafice, mai bun ca niciodată, vă permite sa savurați desenarea cu sensibilitate la presiune direct, fără a fi nevoie să pierdeți timp cu fișiere de configurație!...

Fedora 12 este prima care vă aduce viitorul. Tehnologiile care fac Open Source platforma ideală pentru administratorii de sistem pricepuți sînt toate aici. Rapide, stabile, sigure și gata pentru ca voi să vă faceți "magia"...

Pentru dezvoltatori Fedora 12 include un set bogat de unelte, de la toate limbajele de programare populare pînă la medii de dezvoltare integrate și un set extensiv de biblioteci. Sînt incluse cele mai noi versiuni de emacs, mercurial și php - nu trebuie să va faceți griji cu descărcarea ultimelor noutați, noi le avem pe toate. Pentru dezvoltatorii ce folsoesc Eclipse, Fedora 12 vine cu versiunea 3.5.1 (Galileo), împreună cu suplimente pentru Eclipse mai multe ca niciodată. Și toate acestea sînt în plus fața de serverele web, SQL și de aplicații cele mai populare din lume, creînd un mediu de dezvoltare complex intr-o platforma unică și facilă...

Sursa: FedoraProject.ro
Autor: nicubunu

Patrick J. Volkerding:

Yes it's that time again! After many months of development and careful testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.0!

We are sure you'll agree that the improvements made in this release more than warrant the major version bump up from the 12.x series. We've done our best to bring the latest technology to Slackware while still maintaining the stability and security that you have come to expect. Slackware is well known for it's simplicity and the fact that we try to bring software to you in the condition that the authors intended.

Probably the biggest change is the addition of an official 64-bit port. While the 32-bit (x86) version continues to be developed, this release brings to you a complete port to 64-bit (x86_64). We know that many of you have been waiting eagerly for this, and once you try it you'll see it was well worth the wait.

Slackware 13.0 brings many updates and enhancements, among which you'll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.6.1, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy to use desktop environment, and KDE 4.2.4, a recent stable release of the new 4.2.x series of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. We continue to make use of HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) which allows the system administrator to grant use of various hardware devices according to users' group membership so that they will be able to use items such as USB flash sticks, USB cameras that appear like USB storage, portable hard drives, CD and DVD media, MP3 players, and more, all without requiring sudo, the mount or umount command. Just plug and play. Properly set up, Slackware's desktop should be suitable for any level of Linux experience.

Slackware uses the 2.6.29.6 kernel bringing you advanced performance features such as journaling filesystems, SCSI and ATA RAID volume support, SATA support, Software RAID, LVM (the Logical Volume Manager), and encrypted filesystems. Kernel support for X DRI (the Direct Rendering Interface) brings high-speed hardware accelerated 3D graphics to Linux.

There are two kinds of kernels in Slackware -- the huge kernels, which contain support for just about every driver in the Linux kernel. These are primarily intended to be used for installation, but there's no real reason that you couldn't continue to run them after you have installed. The other type of kernel is the generic kernel, in which nearly every driver is built as a module. To use a generic kernel you'll need to build an initrd to load your filesystem module and possibly your drive controller or other drivers needed at boot time, configure LILO to load the initrd at boot, and reinstall LILO. See the docs in /boot after installing for more information. Slackware's Linux kernels come in both SMP and non-SMP types now. The SMP kernel supports multiple processors, multi-core CPUs, HyperThreading, and about every other optimization available. In our own testing this kernel has proven to be fast, stable, and reliable. We recommend using the SMP kernel even on single processor machines if it will run on them.

From the beginning, Slackware has offered a stable and secure Linux distribution for UNIX veterans as well as an easy-to-use system for beginners. Slackware includes everything you'll need to run a powerful server or workstation. Each Slackware package follows the setup and installation instructions from its author(s) as closely as possible, offering you the most stable and easily expandable setup.

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Patrick J. Volkerding:

Hi folks! We're going to call this set of updates RC2. There are still README files to be handled (that's the nature of documentation, I guess), as well as some other things remaining on the TODO list, but X seems pretty stable now, and it seems like a release soon would be in order so that we can march right back into development territory with -current again soon. :-)

Enjoy, and let us know about any problems you run into!

[font=Georgia][size=11px]Patrick J. Volkerding:

Hi folks — the TODO isn’t entirely empty here, but it’s pretty much down to minor nits, and so we’re going to call this release candidate #1 and (mostly) freeze further updates unless they happen to fix problems.

Regarding the kernel, 2.6.29.x has been well tested with this userspace and seems like the best choice to ship for production use.
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