Fedora 8 (Werewolf) Released

Posted at 6:33 pm on Friday, November 9th, 2007 | Posted in General, Linux, Tech

Fedora 8 released today minus the ‘core’ mid word which has been dropped after Fedora Core 6. Fedora Linux has been my fav even though many flavours of linux like Mandrake, SuSE, Redhat and Ubuntu have come and gone. You can view the complete release notes here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/

Same of the Latest Features that everyone should be excited about:

Fedora 8 features a 2.6.23 based kernel.
NetworkManager 0.7 provides improved wireless network management support. It includes support for multiple devices and provides the capability of system-wide configuration, among many other enhancements.(Yay! More wireless support. They always say ‘improved’ but never things like complete wireless support)
PulseAudio is now installed and enabled by default. PulseAudio allows for hot-switching audio outputs, individual volume controls for each audio stream, networked audio, and more.(One of the first linux distributions to use PulseAudio by default)
CodecBuddy is now included, and promotes free, superior quality, open formats to end users trying to play multimedia content under patent encumbered or proprietary formats.
Compiz Fusion, the compositing window manager that re-merges Compiz and Beryl, is installed by default. To enable Compiz Fusion in GNOME, use the System â†’ Preferences â†’ Desktop Effects tool.
Bluetooth devices and tools now have better graphical and system integration.
Laptop users benefit from the “quirks” feature in HAL, including better suspend/resume and multimedia keyboard support. The pam_console module usage has been removed in favor of access control via HAL, which modernizes the desktop.
Security: A brand new graphical firewall configuration tool, system-config-firewall, replaces system-config-securitylevel. This release offers Kiosk functionality via SELinux, among many new enhancements and security policy changes. A new PolicyKit authentication system that makes secure authority escalation possible for individual operations rather than for the entire program when required.