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Fedora Release Notes

Fedora Documentation Project

Version 8.0.1 (2007-11-04)


1. Welcome to Fedora
2. Release Highlights
2.1. Fedora Tour
2.2. New in Fedora
2.2.1. Spins
2.2.2. Features
2.3. Road Map
3. Legal Notice
4. Feedback
4.1. Providing Feedback on Fedora Software
4.2. Providing Feedback on Release Notes
5. Installation Notes
5.1. Changes in Anaconda
5.2. Installation Related Issues
5.2.1. IDE RAID
5.2.2. Multiple NICs and PXE Installation
5.2.3. HP ProLiant DL360 with Smart Array
5.2.4. Drivers Requiring Firmware
5.3. Upgrade Related Issues
5.3.1. SCSI driver partition limits
5.3.2. Disk partitions must be labeled
5.3.3. Upgrades versus fresh installations
6. Architecture Specific Notes
6.1. RPM multiarch support on 64-bit platforms (x86_64, ppc64)
6.2. PPC Specifics for Fedora
6.2.1. Hardware Requirements for PPC
6.2.2. 4 KiB Pages on 64-bit machines
6.2.3. The Apple keyboard
6.2.4. PPC installation notes
6.3. x86 Specifics for Fedora
6.3.1. Hardware requirements for x86
6.4. x86_64 Specifics for Fedora
6.4.1. Hardware requirements for x86_64
7. Fedora Live Images
7.1. Available Images
7.2. Usage Information
7.3. Text Mode Installation
7.4. USB Booting
7.5. Differences From a Regular Fedora Install
8. Package Notes
8.1. Yum Changes
8.2. Utility Packages
9. Linux Kernel
9.1. Version
9.2. Changelog
9.3. Kernel Flavors
9.4. Reporting Bugs
9.5. Preparing for Kernel Development
10. Fedora Desktop
10.1. GNOME
10.2. KDE
10.3. Web Browsers
10.3.1. Enabling Flash Plugin
10.4. Mail Clients
10.5. Liberation Fonts
11. File Systems
12. Mail Servers
12.1. Sendmail
13. Development
13.1. Tools
13.1.1. GCC Compiler Collection
13.1.2. Eclipse
13.2. KDE 4 Development Platform
14. Security
14.1. Security Enhancements
14.2. General Information
14.2.1. SELinux
15. IcedTea and java-gcj-compat
15.1. IcedTea
15.2. Handling Java Applets
15.3. java-gcj-compat
15.4. Handling Java and Java-like Packages
15.5. Fedora and the JPackage Java Packages
15.6. Maven (v2)
16. Multimedia
16.1. Multimedia Players
16.2. Ogg and Xiph.Org Foundation Formats
16.3. MP3, DVD, and Other Excluded Multimedia Formats
16.4. CD and DVD Authoring and Burning
16.5. Screencasts
16.6. Extended Support through Plugins
17. Games and Entertainment
17.1. Haxima
18. Virtualization
18.1. Changes to the Virtualization Packages
19. X Window System (Graphics)
19.1. X Configuration Changes
19.2. Intel Driver Notes
19.3. Third Party Video Drivers
20. Database Servers
20.1. MySQL
20.1.1. DBD Driver
20.2. PostgreSQL
21. Internationalization (i18n)
21.1. Language Coverage
21.1.1. Language support installation
21.1.2. Transifex
21.2. Fonts
21.2.1. Arabic fonts
21.2.2. Chinese fonts
21.2.3. Hebrew fonts
21.2.4. Indic fonts
21.2.5. Japanese fonts
21.2.6. Korean fonts
21.2.7. Sinhala font
21.3. Input Methods
21.3.1. Improved im-chooser
21.3.2. SCIM hotkeys
21.3.3. Other input methods
22. Backwards Compatibility
22.1. Compiler Compatibility
23. Package Changes
24. Fedora Project
25. Colophon
25.1. Contributors
25.2. Production Methods

1. Welcome to Fedora

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