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For guidelines on the permitted uses of the Fedora trademarks, refer to https:// fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries. Java® is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. XFS® is a trademark of Silicon Graphics International Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Abstract 1. Welcome to Fedora ................................................................................................................ 3 2. Release Highlights .................................................................................................................. 4 2.1. Fedora Tour ................................................................................................................. 4 2.2. New in Fedora ............................................................................................................. 4 1 Release Notes 2.3. Road Map .................................................................................................................... 6 3. Feedback ............................................................................................................................... 6 3.1. Providing Feedback on Fedora Software ....................................................................... 7 3.2. Providing Feedback on Release Notes .......................................................................... 7 4. Installation Notes .................................................................................................................... 7 4.1. Changes in Anaconda .................................................................................................. 8 4.2. Installation Related Issues ............................................................................................ 9 4.3. Upgrade Related Issues ............................................................................................... 9 5. Architecture Specific Notes .................................................................................................... 11 5.1. RPM multiarch support on 64-bit platforms (x86_64, ppc64) .......................................... 11 5.2. PPC Specifics for Fedora ........................................................................................... 12 5.3. x86 Specifics for Fedora ............................................................................................. 14 5.4. x86_64 Specifics for Fedora ....................................................................................... 14 6. Fedora Live Images .............................................................................................................. 15 6.1. Available Images ........................................................................................................ 15 6.2. Usage Information ...................................................................................................... 16 6.3. Text Mode Installation ................................................................................................. 16 6.4. USB Booting .............................................................................................................. 16 6.5. Differences From a Regular Fedora Install ................................................................... 16 7. Package Notes ..................................................................................................................... 17 7.1. Yum Changes ............................................................................................................ 17 7.2. Utility Packages .......................................................................................................... 17 8. Linux Kernel ......................................................................................................................... 17 8.1. Version ...................................................................................................................... 18 8.2. Changelog ................................................................................................................. 18 8.3. Kernel Flavors ............................................................................................................ 18 8.4. Reporting Bugs .......................................................................................................... 19 8.5. Preparing for Kernel Development ............................................................................... 19 9. Fedora Desktop .................................................................................................................... 20 9.1. GNOME ..................................................................................................................... 20 9.2. KDE ........................................................................................................................... 20 9.3. Web Browsers ............................................................................................................ 20 9.4. Mail Clients ................................................................................................................ 21 9.5. Liberation Fonts ......................................................................................................... 22 10. File Systems ....................................................................................................................... 22 11. Mail Servers ........................................................................................................................ 23 11.1. Sendmail .................................................................................................................. 23 12. Development ....................................................................................................................... 23 12.1. Tools ........................................................................................................................ 23 12.2. KDE 4 Development Platform .................................................................................... 25 13. Security .............................................................................................................................. 25 13.1. Security Enhancements ............................................................................................ 26 13.2. General Information .................................................................................................. 26 14. IcedTea and java-gcj-compat ............................................................................................... 26 14.1. IcedTea .................................................................................................................... 26 14.2. Handling Java Applets .............................................................................................. 27 14.3. java-gcj-compat ........................................................................................................ 27 14.4. Handling Java and Java-like Packages ...................................................................... 27 14.5. Fedora and the JPackage Java Packages ................................................................. 28 14.6. Maven (v2) ............................................................................................................... 28 15. Multimedia .......................................................................................................................... 28 2 Welcome to Fedora 15.1. Multimedia Players ................................................................................................... 28 15.2. Ogg and Xiph.Org Foundation Formats ...................................................................... 29 15.3. MP3, DVD, and Other Excluded Multimedia Formats .................................................. 29 15.4. CD and DVD Authoring and Burning .......................................................................... 29 15.5. Screencasts ............................................................................................................. 29 15.6. Extended Support through Plugins ............................................................................. 30 16. Games and Entertainment ................................................................................................... 30 16.1. Haxima ...................................................................................................................