Fedora8/FAQ

= Fedora 8 FAQ =

What's New in Fedora 8?

 * Ability to remix Fedora or create custom appliances easily.
 * New GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5,6 based live images that can be installed to hard disk or USB disk.
 * 2.6.21 based kernel
 * Extended Wireless network management. New 80211Mac (Devicescape) network stack and wireless driver. Network Manager is enabled by default in the Live images.
 * Fast User Switching with console kit integration
 * New desktop theme
 * Comprehensive SELinux GUI config tool (system-config-selinux)
 * Automatic hotplugging display devices (X-server 1.3)
 * Fedora Directory Server
 * Tickless kernel for better power management)
 * New Free and open source experimental 3D Nvidia driver
 * Much faster Yum, Pirut, Pup
 * KVM (Kernel Virtualization) (in addition to Xen and Qemu) with installer and graphical management tool integration (virt-manager).
 * Improved I18N support with SCIM
 * Smolt hardware profiler
 * New Firewire stack
 * NTFS-3g and Liberation fonts which provide metric equivalents to key Microsoft fonts for better interoperability
 * Improved infrastructure via new build, updates system and mirror management

Where can I find Fedora 8 screenshots?

 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours/Fedora7
 * http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=828&slide=4

Is there any media articles?

 * http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/06/01/video-fedora-7-highlights/
 * http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/31/remixing-fedora-7/
 * http://dot.kde.org/1180620522/
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/PressArchive/F7