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== System Daemons ==
A reminder to beat writers ...


=== Power Management ===
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In order to allow users to monitor the behavior of their
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systems and to improve power consumption in general, several
improvements were done for Fedora 11:
* Provide two new systemtap scripts to monitor disk and network activity of running applications
* Add a workload framework package called BLTK to offer reproducible tests
* Improved applications to reduce unnecessary disk and/or network activity
* Enabled several new features to save power:
** relatime option for root file system /
** Enable USB autosuspend for known working devices
** Add optional tuned service to dynamically adapt system settings to the current use
Users of Fedora 11 should therefore see a reduction in power usage of their system.
         
=== mdadm ===


mdadm has been updated to 3.0. The significant change which justifies the new major version number is that mdadm can now handle metadata updates entirely in userspace.  This allows mdadm to support metadata formats that the kernel knows nothing about.
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Currently two such metadata formats are supported:
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* DDF  - The SNIA standard format.
<pre>
* Intel Matrix - The metadata used by recent Intel ICH controllers.
yum check-update
Also the approach to device names has changed significantly.
</pre>


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Keystrokes '''[Key]'''


=== All System Daemon Changes ===
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== postgresql ==


{|style="width:100%"
|-
! Package || <center>Old Version</center> || <center>New Version</center> || Upstream URL
|-
| {{Package|logrotate}} || <center>3.7.7</center> || <center>3.7.8</center> || &nbsp;
|-
| {{Package|mailcap}} || <center>2.1.28</center> || <center>2.1.29</center> || &nbsp;
|-
| {{Package|pciutils}} || <center>3.0.2</center> || <center>3.1.2</center> || http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/pciutils.shtml
|-
| {{Package|quota}} || <center>3.16</center> || <center>3.17</center> || http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota/
|-
| {{Package|acpid}} || <center>1.0.6</center> || <center>1.0.8</center> || http://acpid.sourceforge.net/
|-
| {{Package|ccid}} || <center>1.3.8</center> || <center>1.3.9</center> || http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ccid.html
|-
| {{Package|dhcpv6-client}} || <center>1.0.22</center> || <center>1.1.0</center> || http://fedorahosted.org/dhcpv6/
|-
| {{Package|mdadm}} || <center>2.6.7.1</center> || <center>3.0</center> || http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
|-
| {{Package|microcode_ctl}} || <center>1.17</center> || <center>dropped</center> || http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/
|-
| {{Package|nfs-utils}} || <center>1.1.4</center> || <center>1.1.5</center> || http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfs
|-
| {{Package|ntfs-3g}} || <center>1.5012</center> || <center>2009.2.1</center> || http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
|-
| {{Package|pam_krb5}} || <center>2.3.2</center> || <center>2.3.4</center> || &nbsp;
|-
| {{Package|pm-utils}} || <center>1.2.2.1</center> || <center>1.2.4</center> || http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org
|-
| {{Package|gpm}} || <center>1.20.5</center> || <center>1.20.6</center> || http://unix.schottelius.org/gpm/
|-
| {{Package|readahead}} || <center>1.4.7</center> || <center>1.4.9</center> || https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/readahead
|-
| {{Package|x86info}} || <center>1.21</center> || <center>1.24</center> || http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/x86info
|-
| {{Package|xfsprogs}} || <center>2.10.1</center> || <center>3.0.0</center> || http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
|}




 
None of these are cast in bronze, but following these guidelines will make the conversion to XML a lot easier.
75 packages, 17 changed, 58 unchanged.

Revision as of 14:29, 28 August 2010

A reminder to beat writers ...

The conversion to XML will be easier if the original wiki is marked appropriately:

Package names should be marked as packagename

File and directories should be marked as /dir/name

Commands should NOT be indented. e.g.:

yum check-update

gui menus and items should be marked About Me

Keystrokes [Key]

In general, you want to start discussion of a new package with a new subsection:

postgresql

None of these are cast in bronze, but following these guidelines will make the conversion to XML a lot easier.