Fedora 8 FAQ

What's New in Fedora 8?

Ability to remix Fedora or create custom appliances easily.
New GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5,6 based live images that can be installed to hard disk or USB disk.
2.6.21 based kernel
Extended Wireless network management. New 80211Mac (Devicescape) network stack and wireless driver. Network Manager is enabled by default in the Live images.
Fast User Switching with console kit integration
New desktop theme
Comprehensive SELinux GUI config tool (system-config-selinux)
Automatic hotplugging display devices (X-server 1.3)
Fedora Directory Server
Tickless kernel for better power management)
New Free and open source experimental 3D Nvidia driver
Much faster Yum, Pirut, Pup
KVM (Kernel Virtualization) (in addition to Xen and Qemu) with installer and graphical management tool integration (virt-manager).
Improved I18N support with SCIM
Smolt hardware profiler
New Firewire stack
NTFS-3g and Liberation fonts which provide metric equivalents to key Microsoft fonts for better interoperability
Improved infrastructure via new build, updates system and mirror management