Guidelines
- Refer to the general release announcement page for general guidance
- Check all URLs against the static/cached URLs set up by the Infrastructure team, so we don't hammer their servers unnecessarily on release day
- Theme ideas:
- Lion, jungle, safari
- This is Leonidias, the name alone is great press. Grecian theme?
- add idea?
- There can be more than one draft on this page; just put them in separate sections.
Announcement text
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New Draft
Ladies and gentlemen of the Royal Explorers Club! Your attention please. It falls to me to be the host of our proceedings to-day, as we celebrate a great achievement in the annals of this hallowed organization -- the discovery of what is truly a magnificent specimen among all FOSSdom. When Dr. Brattlesworth and I began this safari more than six months ago, we knew full well the many snares, toils, and dangers that awaited us along the hundreds of miles of tracking our quarry across the plains. But we also maintained a steadfast belief that by living with the land, and becoming part of the larger ecosystem where this incredible animal takes refuge, we could record for posterity the way of life of that marvelous creature -- Leonidas!
What's that? Oh, yes, dear me, the slides. I know you didn't come all this way to hear my prattle, so let's say we, ah, get right down to brass tacks as it were! Ho-ho! Yes, here we can see an exquisite scene of the beast at repose, secure in his den, thanks to the mandatory access control enhancements, which the astute among you will know better as "SELinux", to his virtualization systems. Upon closer inspection of his habitat we reveal further improvements to his virtualization lair, including the merging of KVM and QEMU, stronger VNC authentication for guests and a much enhanced virt-manager. Finally, we were able to determine, as you'll see in this slide, that our crafty king of beasts has secured his lair using the protection of integrated fingerprint authentication and DNSSEC.
Next slide please, Dr. Brattlesworth -- Here, we find the quadruped leaping to action in a flash with its 20-second startup -- and do observe the animal's graceful form, achieved through kernel mode setting and Plymouth. We discovered, upon further examination, that Leonidas maintains his sleek figure through the help of his new Presto feature, which allows him to keep his bandwidth trim while digesting updates that keep him healthy and content. By this point, Dr. Brattlesworth was positively ecstatic about our discovery, and I had to calm the poor chap down with some of the local fire-water. That was a rum morning, wasn't it, my dear fellow? Ha ha!
Oh, balderdash, where was I? Ah yes, next slide... Here we see a diagram of the cranial capacity of the average member of his species, compared with that of our subject Leonidas. Through a form of advanced evolution to which Dr. Brattlesworth and I refer as "Free and Open Source Software Development Methods," he has developed the sophisticated abilities to comprehend code using GCC 4.4, Python 2.6 and NetBeans 6.5, and to patrol a much larger area of space quickly, using his support for the Ext4 file system
Ah, my favorite slide is next! Here we see Leonidas at the end of the day, safe and sound with his new more understandable and flexible volume control. Oh-ho! Perhaps those among you not asleep in your easy chairs by the fire, or otherwise engaged with your brandy and cigars, saw my little play at sonic humour... *ahem* Ah, no matter.
So now that you have seen the results of our intrepid safari into the land inhabited by Leonidas, truly a wonder for us to behold and which we are proud to share with you, our colleagues, as always. I hope that you, like I -- and I trust my dear fellow adventurer Dr. Brattlesworth -- are already eager to return to the veldt and witness the next stage of growth of this magnificient creature. Do enjoy your handouts, which are all provided on this marvelous new invention called the "digital versatile disc."
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Old Draft
This is a valiant effort, but it doesn't tell a story as much as list features. I took a shot above. --stickster 00:17, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Roar into the future with Leonidas. The king of operating systems has arrived, and it is ready to defend it's turf from any challengers.
No more hunting through the brush to figure out which of dozens of controls manages the volume for this application, a new Volume Control makes it simple.
Pretenders to the king's throne now need to get past the new Fingerprint reader support to even challenge the king.
And the king can now expand his pride over a much greater territory with the new default filesystem.
The cubs can now be bigger, brighter, and more secure with enhancements to the virtual machine library, including a new improved console, better SELinux integration, and improved authentication.
And feeding the cubs is made easier with the expanded automatic font and MIME installer.
The king can now go hunting outside his territory, too, with the new Windows cross compiler.