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These are the Talking Points for the Fedora 14 release. For information on how these talking points were chosen, see Talking Points SOP. They are intended to help Ambassadors quickly present an overview of highlighted features when talking about the release.
The talking points are based in part on the features for this release. Any Fedora community member can introduce a feature, using our feature process.
For desktop users and everyone
Things of general interest to most people using Fedora.
KDE45 "KDE Plasma Desktop 4.5"
Feature talking point.
Feature summarized talking point.
MeeGo 1.0
MeeGo™ is an operating environment and development kit for next-generation mobile and device platforms, formed from the merger of Intel's Moblin project and Nokia's Maemo project, and backed by the Linux Foundation. It includes a rich set of software and libraries that support multiple architectures and multiple app stores, and are well aligned with a variety of upstream free and open source software projects. Fedora 14 offers an integrated set of MeeGo software on a ready-to-use spin. Users can experience this platform simply by downloading the spin image, and can try it on any personal computer, including netbooks or other small systems, and interested developers can contribute to the development of this exciting new platform.
MeeGo™ lets you try the latest mobile platform on any computer, including your netbook.
For administrators
Improvements that make system administrators' lives better.
ipmiutil
Feature talking point.
Feature summarized talking point.
Systemd
It allows to defer the start of daemons until the deamon is needed for accepting an incomming network connection. It is also able to manage file system tasks. Using control groups (a Linux feature) it allows to handle all processes related to a particular feature together. In the future it will also act as session manager. It will speed up boot, but more work is needed to reap the full benefits.
No manual ordering of features is needed, the kernel does the ordering automatically.
On-demand starting of services and activation of features.
Spice
Feature talking point.
Feature summarized talking point.
EC2
This allows EC2 users to have an option of using a recent and supported Fedora release.
For developers
Innovations that make Fedora a great platform for software developers.
D Programming
D is a systems programming language which focus is on combining the power and high performance of C and C++ with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python. The D language is statically typed and compiles directly to machine code. It's multiparadigm, supporting many programming styles: imperative, object oriented, and metaprogramming. It's a member of the C syntax family, and its appearance is very similar to that of C++.
Programming language Combination with many Implementations like .NET, LLVM, etc.
GNUstep
GNUstep is a reimplementation of the NextStep environment. It's a GUI framework based of the Objective-C programming language which is part of the gcc. It is also available n other Linux distribution like Debian or Gentoo Linux.
GNUstep development environment for Fedora
Futher information may be find at: Http://www.gnustep.org
Memory Debugging Tools
Memory Debugging Tools feature
Feature talking point.
Feature summarized talking point.
Python 2.7
Python 2.7 is the last of the Python 2.x releases, and introduces many new features that are present in Python 3 to allow Python developers an easier migration to the new Python 3 stack. Many modules are now feature complete with their Python 3.1 equivalents, and are also much more efficient. For example, the IO class can now be up to 20 times faster in some operations since it has been rewritten. New debugging objects like memoryview can help speed development by giving you an "inside view" of your code.
The last of the Python 2 releases gives developers an easier migration path to Python 3.
Rakudo Star
Perl 6 is a major revision to the Perl programming language, which introduces elements of many modern and historical languages. There are currently multiple implementation projects of Perl 6 underway, the most actively developed one is Rakudo, which is based on the Parrot virtual machine.
The first production release of the Perl 6 language.
Spins
A few highlighted Fedora Spins coming out with this release.