Release Announcement for F11

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Announcement text

Get your copy of Fedora 11 today:

http://get.fedoraproject.org/

Join the many thousands of Fedora particpants and contributors:

http://join.fedoraproject.org/

If you missed the official launch, attend a Fedora 11 Launch Party near you:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty

New Draft

Ladies and gentlemen of the Royal Explorers Club! Your attention please. It falls to me to be the host of our proceedings to-day, as we celebrate a great achievement in the annals of this intrepid organization -- the discovery of what is truly a magnificent specimen among all FOSSdom. When Dr. Brattlesworth and I began this safari more than six months ago, we knew full well the many snares, toils, and dangers that awaited us along the hundreds of miles of tracking our quarry across the plains. But we also maintained a steadfast belief that by living with the land, and becoming part of the larger ecosystem where this incredible animal takes refuge, we could record for posterity the way of life of that marvelous creature -- Leonidas!

What's that? Oh, yes, dear me, the slides. I know you didn't come all this way to hear my prattle, so let's say we, ah, get right down to brass tacks as it were! Ho-ho! Yes, here we can see an exquisite scene of the beast at repose, secure in his den, thanks to the mandatory access control enhancements, which the astute among you will know better as "SELinux," to his virtualization systems. Upon closer inspection of his habitat we reveal further improvements to his virtualization lair, including the merging of KVM and QMEU, stronger VNC authentication for guests and a much enhanced virt-manager.

Next we find the quadruped leaping to action in a flash using it's 20 second startup and doing it while still looking pretty using Kernel Mode setting. The beast easily traps a delicious feast using the new RPM 4.7 and devours a freshly captured feast of Gnome (2.26), KDE (4.2) and Xfce(4.6). He easily digests it all using Presto which helps him keep his bandwidth trim while getting gathering his updates.

In the field the animal overwhelms. Through great sophistication he has developed his abilities to compile using GCC 4.4, Python 2.6 and NetBeans 6.5 and stores his glorious bounty on his new Ext4 file system. The creature also displays his ability to camouflage himself and cross compile for other platforms his newly found using MinGW.

As we near the end of our safari we find the animal spending his leisure team engaging other animals in the kingdom, most markedly the Firefox (3.1) and the Thunderbird (3). Finally he settles in, sleeping soundly knowing he has the protection of integrated fingerprint authentication and DNSSEC watching him as he lay safe and sound with his new more understandable and flexible volume control.

Bask as the glorious king sits on his throne once again mighty, secure and always ahead of the pack as he lays in wait for his next great awakening. All hail Leonidas!

Get your copy of Fedora 11 today:

http://get.fedoraproject.org/

Join the many thousands of Fedora particpants and contributors:

http://join.fedoraproject.org/

If you missed the official launch, attend a Fedora 11 Launch Party near you:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty

Old Draft

This is a valiant effort, but it doesn't tell a story as much as list features. I took a shot above. --stickster 00:17, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Roar into the future with Leonidas. The king of operating systems has arrived, and it is ready to defend it's turf from any challengers.

No more hunting through the brush to figure out which of dozens of controls manages the volume for this application, a new Volume Control makes it simple.

Pretenders to the king's throne now need to get past the new Fingerprint reader support to even challenge the king.

And the king can now expand his pride over a much greater territory with the new default filesystem.

The cubs can now be bigger, brighter, and more secure with enhancements to the virtual machine library, including a new improved console, better SELinux integration, and improved authentication.

And feeding the cubs is made easier with the expanded automatic font and MIME installer.

The king can now go hunting outside his territory, too, with the new Windows cross compiler.