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[[User:Mso|Martin Sourada]] chronicled<ref>http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/04/random-leonidas-goodies.html</ref> a few of the many features that can be expected with the upcoming Fedora 11 (Leonidas): Intel Kernel Mode Setting, faster boot times, better USB camera support, touchpad improvements (and a new tab within the Mouse Preferences applet), PackageKit interface updates, the use of <code>Presto</code> to shrink updates downloads (which could use some additional testing<ref>http://rawhidewatch.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/yum-presto-delta-rpm-support-needs-testing/</ref>, for anyone interested) and more. And with the release of the Synaptics 1.1 driver, [[Peter Hutterer|Peter Hutterer]] described<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/04/synaptics-11-and-what-your-touchpad-can.html</ref> some of its new features, including additional details about multi-touch support.
[[User:Mso|Martin Sourada]] chronicled<ref>http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/04/random-leonidas-goodies.html</ref> a few of the many features that can be expected with the upcoming Fedora 11 (Leonidas): Intel Kernel Mode Setting, faster boot times, better USB camera support, touchpad improvements (and a new tab within the Mouse Preferences applet), PackageKit interface updates, the use of <code>Presto</code> to shrink updates downloads (which could use some additional testing<ref>http://rawhidewatch.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/yum-presto-delta-rpm-support-needs-testing/</ref>, for anyone interested) and more. And with the release of the Synaptics 1.1 driver, [[Peter Hutterer|Peter Hutterer]] described<ref>http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/04/synaptics-11-and-what-your-touchpad-can.html</ref> some of its new features, including additional details about multi-touch support.
[[User:Skvidal|Seth Vidal]] analyzed<ref>http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/patches-per-src-rpm-in-fedora/</ref> the Source RPMS that make up various Fedora releases since F7 to find the average number of patches per RPM. Happily, the numbers have been slowly but steadily decreasing.
[[SilasSewell|Silas Sewell]] demonstrated<ref>http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2009/04/22/funcshell-a-shell-interface-to-func/</ref> <code>funcshell</code> a new project to build a shell interface around <code>func</code> with all of the features expected of a shell including tab completion, persistent history and integrated help.




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Planet Fedora

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.

http://planet.fedoraproject.org

Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin

The Planet Fedora beat recently took a short vacation, but is back this week fully refreshed. This issue not only contains posts from the past week, but also a few highlights from the preceding two weeks when there was no coverage.

General

Eric Christensen announced[1] a new policy for deleting pages on the Fedora Project Wiki.

Martin Sourada chronicled[2] a few of the many features that can be expected with the upcoming Fedora 11 (Leonidas): Intel Kernel Mode Setting, faster boot times, better USB camera support, touchpad improvements (and a new tab within the Mouse Preferences applet), PackageKit interface updates, the use of Presto to shrink updates downloads (which could use some additional testing[3], for anyone interested) and more. And with the release of the Synaptics 1.1 driver, Peter Hutterer described[4] some of its new features, including additional details about multi-touch support.

Seth Vidal analyzed[5] the Source RPMS that make up various Fedora releases since F7 to find the average number of patches per RPM. Happily, the numbers have been slowly but steadily decreasing.

Silas Sewell demonstrated[6] funcshell a new project to build a shell interface around func with all of the features expected of a shell including tab completion, persistent history and integrated help.



  1. ↑ http://fedora-sparks.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-policy-for-deleting-wiki-pages-on.html
  2. ↑ http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/04/random-leonidas-goodies.html
  3. ↑ http://rawhidewatch.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/yum-presto-delta-rpm-support-needs-testing/
  4. ↑ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/04/synaptics-11-and-what-your-touchpad-can.html
  5. ↑ http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/patches-per-src-rpm-in-fedora/
  6. ↑ http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2009/04/22/funcshell-a-shell-interface-to-func/
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