Archive:FedoraDocs/ReleaseNotes/Core4Test1/ReleaseOverview

The following list includes brief summaries of some of the more significant aspects of Fedora Core 4test1:

• Fedora Core 4test1 contains the following changes:

• GCC 4.0

• GNOME 2.10

• KDE 3.4

• SELinux -- This includes a new "targeted" policy that monitors specific daemons with less intrusion than the strict policy in use before. This policy is enabled by default. For more information, refer to:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq/

• Indic language support

• Firefox and Mozilla can be enabled with pango rendering support, which enables many text layout features, including the rendering of CTL (Complex Text Layout) such as Indic languages. To enable this, set the following environment variable when running Firefox or Mozilla:

MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1

• Kernel and e2fsprogs support for online growing of ext3 file systems.

• Various desktop-related features, including, but not limited to:

• Remote desktops using VNC (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2004-June/msg00007.html)

• Printing improvements (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-June/msg00370.html)

• Evolution 2.0

Note

VMware WS 4.5.2 is known to work on Fedora Core 4test1 after the following workarounds are used:

• You must upgrade the kernel modules and configuration using the unofficial vmware-any-any-* toolkit available from:

http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/

• After vmware-config.pl is run and the VMware modules are loaded, the following command creates the /sys/class/* nodes needed for udev:

cp -rp /dev/vm * /etc/udev/devices/