Utgivelsesnotater for Fedora

Fedora Documentation Project

Version 8.0.1 (2007-11-04)

This document is released under the terms of the Open Publication License. For more details, read the full legalnotice in Section 3, “Legal Notice”.

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Revision History
Revision 8.0.1 2007-11-04 PWF

Zero-day update for F8

Revision 8.0.0 2007-10-22 PWF

Push new version for final

Revision 7.92 2007-10-02 PWF

Oppdatert innhold for F8 test3


1. Velkommen til Fedora
2. Utgivelseshøydepunkter
2.1. Rundtur i Fedora
2.2. Nytt i Fedora
2.2.1. Spins
2.2.2. Features
2.3. Road Map
3. Legal Notice
4. Tilbakemelding
4.1. Providing Feedback on Fedora Software
4.2. Gi tilbakemelding på utgivelsesnotatene
5. Installasjonsnotater
5.1. Endringer i 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 med Smart Array
5.2.4. Drivers Requiring Firmware
5.3. Upgrade Related Issues
5.3.1. SCSI driver partition limits
5.3.2. Diskpartisjoner må merkes
5.3.3. Oppgradering sammenlignet med en ny installasjon
6. Architecture Specific Notes
6.1. RPM multiarch support on 64-bit platforms (x86_64, ppc64)
6.2. Spesifikt for Fedora på PPC
6.2.1. Maskinvarekrav for PPC
6.2.2. 4 KiB Pages on 64-bit machines
6.2.3. Apple-tastaturet
6.2.4. Installasjonsnotater for PPC
6.3. x86 Specifics for Fedora
6.3.1. Maskinvarekrav for x86
6.4. Spesifikt for Fedora på x86_64
6.4.1. Maskinvarekrav for x86_64
7. Fedora Live-avbilder
7.1. Tilgjengelige avbilder
7.2. Bruksinformasjon
7.3. Installasjon i tekst-modus
7.4. Starte opp fra USB
7.5. Forskjeller fra en vanlig Fedora-installasjon
8. Package Notes
8.1. Endringer i Yum
8.2. Utility Packages
9. Linux Kernel
9.1. Versjon
9.2. Endringslogg
9.3. Kjerne-varianter
9.4. Rapportere feil
9.5. Forberedelse for kjerneutvikling
10. Fedora Desktop
10.1. GNOME
10.2. KDE
10.3. Nettlesere
10.3.1. Enabling Flash Plugin
10.4. E-postklienter
10.5. Liberation Fonts
11. Filsystemer
12. E-posttjenere
12.1. Sendmail
13. Utvikling
13.1. Verktøy
13.1.1. GCC-kompilatorsamling
13.1.2. Eclipse
13.2. KDE 4 Development Platform
14. Sikkerhet
14.1. Sikkerhetsforbedringer
14.2. Generell informasjon
14.2.1. SELinux
15. IcedTea og 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 og andre ekskluderte multimediaformater
16.4. CD and DVD Authoring and Burning
16.5. Screencasts
16.6. Extended Support through Plugins
17. Spill og underholdning
17.1. Haxima
18. Virtualisering
18.1. Endringer til virtualiseringspakkene
19. Vindussystemet X (grafikk)
19.1. Endringer i X-konfigurasjonen
19.2. Notater om Intel-driveren
19.3. Videodrivere fra tredjeparter
20. Database tjenere
20.1. MySQL
20.1.1. DBD-driver
20.2. PostgreSQL
21. Internasjonalisering (i18n)
21.1. Language Coverage
21.1.1. Language support installation
21.1.2. Transifex
21.2. Skrifter
21.2.1. Arabic fonts
21.2.2. Kinesiske skrifter
21.2.3. Hebrew fonts
21.2.4. Indiske skrifter
21.2.5. Japanske skrifter
21.2.6. Koreanske skrifter
21.2.7. Sinhala font
21.3. Inntastingsmetoder
21.3.1. Forbedret im-chooser
21.3.2. SCIM hotkeys
21.3.3. Andre inntastingsmetoder
22. Backwards Compatibility
22.1. Compiler Compatibility
23. Pakkeendringer
24. Fedora Project
25. Kolofon
25.1. Bidragsytere
25.2. Produksjonsmetoder

1. Velkommen til Fedora

The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored and community supported open source project. Its goal is the rapid progress of free and open source software and content. The Fedora Project makes use of public forums, open processes, rapid innovation, meritocracy, and transparency in pursuit of the best operating system and platform that free and open source software can provide.

[Tip] Seneste Utgivelsesnotater på nettet

Disse utgivelsesnotatene kan bli oppdatert. Besøk http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/ for å se siste utgivelsesnotatene for Fedora.

[Important] Eldre utgivelsesnotater på nettet

Hvis du migrerer fra en versjon av Fedora som er eldre enn den forrige, burde du lese eldre utgivelsesnotater for mer informasjon. Du kan finne eldre utgivelsesnotater på http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/.

Du kan hjelpe Fedora Project-samfunnet med å forbedre Fedora hvis du rapporterer inn feil eller forslag til forbedringer. Gå til http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests for mer informasjon om dette. Takk for din deltakelse.

For å finne ut mer generell informasjon om Fedora, besøk følgende nettsider:

[Note] Dokumentlenker

Many links may not work properly from within the installation environment, due to resource constraints. The release notes are also available post-installation as part of the desktop Web browser's default home page. If you are connected to the internet, use these links to find other helpful information about Fedora and the community that creates and supports it.

2. Utgivelseshøydepunkter

[Tip] Seneste Utgivelsesnotater på nettet

Disse utgivelsesnotatene kan bli oppdatert. Besøk http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/ for å se siste utgivelsesnotatene for Fedora.

2.1. Rundtur i Fedora

Du kan finne en tur fylt med bilder og videoer av denne spennende nye utgivelsen på http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours/Fedora8.

2.2. Nytt i Fedora

Denne utgivelsen inkluderer viktige nye versjoner av mange nøkkelkomponenter og -teknologier. Følgende seksjoner gir en kort oversikt over store endringer fra sist versjon av Fedora.

2.2.1. Spins

Fedora includes several different spins, which are variations of Fedora built from a specific set of software packages. Each spin has a combination of software to meet the requirements of a specific kind of end user. In addition to a very small boot.iso image for network installation, users have the following spin choices:

  • A regular Fedora image for desktops, workstations, and server users. This spin provides a good upgrade path and similar environment for users of previous releases of Fedora.

  • One of four Live images that can be run from a disc or USB flash device, and can be installed to hard disk as desired. See the "Live" section for more information about the Live images.

More custom spins are available at http://spins.fedoraproject.org. Remember that these Live images can be used on USB media via the livecd-iso-to-disk utility available in the livecd-tools package.

2.2.2. Features

  • This release features GNOME 2.20. GNOME now includes mail notification in the Evolution mail client, the ability to fill in PDF forms in the Evince document viewer, improved file management, a revamped Appearance control panel applet, a revised help system, and many other enhancements.

  • Online Desktop provides a desktop experience designed around online services. A preview of Online Desktop is provided via BigBoard, which is a optional sidebar in GNOME.

  • KDE 3.5.8 is available in the KDE Live image as well as the regular DVD. The KDE 4 (Beta) Development Environment is available in the repository.

  • Xfce 4.4.1 er en del av denne utgivelsen.

  • NetworkManager 0.7 provides improved wireless network management support. It includes support for multiple devices and provides the capability of system-wide configuration, among many other enhancements.

  • PulseAudio is now installed and enabled by default. PulseAudio is an advanced sound server compatible with nearly all existing Linux sound systems. PulseAudio allows for hot-switching audio outputs, individual volume controls for each audio stream, networked audio, and more.

  • CodecBuddy is now included, and promotes free, superior quality, open formats to end users trying to play multimedia content under patent encumbered or proprietary formats.

  • Compiz Fusion, the compositing window manager that re-merges Compiz and Beryl, is installed by default. To enable Compiz Fusion in GNOME, use the SystemPreferencesDesktop Effects tool. Ongoing, long term Xorg work continues to enable Compiz by default.

  • The completely free and open source Java environment called IcedTea is installed by default. IcedTea is derived from OpenJDK, includes a browser plugin based on GCJ, and is available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. GCJ is still the default on PPC architecture.

  • OpenOffice.org 2.3, med mange nye funksjoner, er tilgjengelig som en del av Fedora 8.

  • Bluetooth-enheter og -verktøy har nå bedre grafisk- og system-integrasjon.

  • Laptop users benefit from the "quirks" feature in HAL, including better suspend/resume and multimedia keyboard support.

  • There is now improved power management thanks to both a tickless kernel in x86 and x86_64 architectures, and a reduction in unnecessary processor wakeups via powertop.

  • This release of Fedora has a new look and feel, called Infinity, from the Fedora Art team.

  • Nodoka, et helt nytt GNOME-tema laget spesielt for Fedora, er tilgjengelig i denne utgivelsen.

  • A new online browser home page, http://start.fedoraproject.org, appears in this release.

  • Fedora fortsetter å forbedre sine proaktive sikkerhetsfunksjoner, og FORTIFY_SOURCE har nå blitt forbedret til å dekke C++ i tillegg til C, som hindrer mange sikkerhetsutnyttelser.

  • Et helt nytt grafisk verktøy for å konfigurere en brannvegg, system-config-firewall, erstatter system-config-securitylevel.

  • This release offers Kiosk functionality via SELinux, among many new enhancements and security policy changes.

  • glibc-pakken i Fedora 8 har nå støtte for passord som bruker SHA256 og SHA512 hasher. Før var bare DES og MD5 tilgjengelig. Verktøyene for å opprette slike passord har ikke denne muligheten enda, men hvis slike passord er laget på andre måter, så vil glibc gjenkjenne og bruke dem.

  • Secure remote management capability is now provided for Xen, KVM, and QEMU in Fedora 8 virtualization.

  • Eclipse 3.3 (Europa), a new release of the acclaimed development platform, is available as part of this release.

  • I denne utgivelsen har ytelsen til yum, Pirut og Pup blitt økt betraktelig.

  • Verktøyet Legg til/fjern programvare, pirut, introduserer et nytt grafisk grensesnitt for å håndtere pakkelagere. Velg RedigerLager for å slå på eller av noen av de installerte pakkelagerene.

  • Live installations are faster and require a smaller root filesystem. The file system layout has also changed somewhat. System files for the Live images are now under LiveOS/, and a new README file has been provided as a short introduction to the live image.

  • Transifex provides a web-based translation interface to allow users to contribute translation work for Fedora hosted projects as well as being able to provide translations to upstream directly to any upstream project.

  • Integration of unique build IDs into Fedora's software building infrastructure now provides enhanced debugging capabilities and core dumps.

  • Fedora now offers easier rebranding of Fedora derivatives via a generic-logos software package. Changes in Fedora's mirror structure also make creation of derivatives easier.

  • Bruken av modulen pam_console har blitt fjernet til fordel for tilgangskontroll via HAL, som moderniserer skrivebordet.

  • Fedora 8 inneholder en 2.6.23-basert kjerne.

2.3. Road Map

Foreslåtte planer for neste utgivelse av Fedora er tilgjengelig på http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RoadMap.

3. Legal Notice

Copyright (c) 2007 by Red Hat, Inc. and others. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0, available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/.

The Fedora Art Project created the admonition graphics (note, tip, important, caution, and warning). Tommy Reynolds created the callout graphics. They all may be freely redistributed with documentation produced for the Fedora Project.

FEDORA, FEDORA PROJECT, and the Fedora Logo are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc., are registered or pending registration in the U.S. and other countries, and are used here under license to the Fedora Project.

Red Hat and the Red Hat "Shadow Man" logo are registered trademarks of Red Hat Inc. in the United States and other countries.

All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners.

Documentation, as with software itself, may be subject to export control. Read about Fedora Project export controls at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Export.

4. Tilbakemelding

Thank you for taking the time to provide your comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the Fedora community. By doing so, you help improve the state of Fedora, Linux, and free software worldwide.

4.1. Providing Feedback on Fedora Software

To provide feedback on Fedora software or other system elements, please refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests. A list of commonly reported bugs and known issues for this release is available from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F8Common.

4.2. Gi tilbakemelding på utgivelsesnotatene

[Important] Feedback for Release Notes Only

This section concerns feedback on the release notes themselves.

Hvis du føler at utgivelsesnotatene kan forbedres på noen måte, så kan du gi tilbakemelding direkte til gebetskribentene. Her er noen måter å gjøre det på, i anbefalt rekkefølge:

  1. Hvis du har en Fedora-konto, rediger innhold direkte på http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats

  2. Fyll ut en feilrapport ved å bruke denne malen: http://tinyurl.com/nej3u - Denne lenken er BARE for tilbakemelding på utgivelsesnotatene.. Gå til lenken over for detaljer.

  3. Send e-post til relnotes@fedoraproject.org

5. Installasjonsnotater

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Disse utgivelsesnotatene kan bli oppdatert. Besøk http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/ for å se siste utgivelsesnotatene for Fedora.

[Important] Fedora installasjonsguide

For å lære å installere Fedora, gå til http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/.

[Tip] Installasjonsproblemer som ikke finnes i disse utgivelsesnotatene

Hvis det oppstår et problem eller at du har spørsmål under installasjonen som du ikke finner svar på i utgivelsesnotatene, gå til http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ og http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common.

Anaconda er navnet på Fedoras installasjonsprogram. Denne seksjonen lister opp problemer som er relatert til Anaconda og installasjon av Fedora 8.

[Note] Nedlasting av store filer

Hvis du har tenkt til å laste ned Fedora DVD ISO-avbildet, husk på at ikke alle nedlastningsverktøy kan håndtere filer som er større enn 2 GB. Verktøy uten disse begrensningene inkluderer wget 1.9.1-16 og høyere, curl og ncftpget. BitTorrent er en annen måte å laste ned store filer på. For informasjon om å få tak i og bruke torrent-filer, gå til http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/.

Anaconda tester integriteten på installasjonmediene som standard. Denne funksjonen fungerer med installasjon fra CD, DVD, harddisk-ISO og NFS-ISO. Fedora Project anbefaler at du tester alle installasjonmediene før du starter installasjonen og innen du rapporterer inn feil som som skjer under installasjonen. Mange av feilene som rapporteres inn skjer faktisk på grunn av feilaktig brent CD eller DVD.

The mediacheck function is highly sensitive, and may report some usable discs as faulty. This result is often caused by disc writing software that does not include padding when creating discs from ISO files. To use this test, at boot time hit any key to enter the menu. Then press the Tab key, add the option mediacheck to the parameter list, and press Enter.

After you complete the mediacheck function successfully, reboot to return DMA mode to its normal state. On many systems, this results in a faster installation process from the disc. You may skip the mediacheck option when rebooting.

[Important] BitTorrent verifiserer filintegriteten automatisk

If you use BitTorrent, any files you download are automatically validated. If your file completes downloading, you do not need to check it. Once you burn your CD or DVD, however, you should still use mediacheck to test the integrity of the media.

To perform memory testing before you install Fedora, press any key to enter the boot menu, then select Memory Test. This option runs the Memtest86 stand alone memory testing software in place of Anaconda. Memtest86 memory testing continues until you press the Esc key.

[Note] Memtest86 Availability

You must boot from Installation Disc 1, the DVD, or a rescue CD in order to use this feature.

Fedora 8 supports graphical FTP and HTTP installations. However, the installer image must either fit in RAM or appear on local storage, such as Installation Disc 1. Therefore, only systems with more than 192MiB of RAM, or which boot from Installation Disc 1, can use the graphical installer. Systems with 192MiB RAM or less fall back to using the text-based installer automatically. If you prefer to use the text-based installer, type linux text at the boot: prompt.

5.1. Endringer i Anaconda

  • Forbedret støtte for Live-avbilder

  • Mulighet for å installere fra et Live-avbilde som kjører fra RAM eller USB-minnepinne

  • Forbedret støtte for IEEE-1394 (Firewire)

  • Use of /dev/hdX is deprecated on i386 and x86_64 for IDE drives, and has changed to /dev/sdX except on PPC. See note about the importance of labeling devices for upgrades from FC6, and partition limitations.

5.2.1. IDE RAID

Not all IDE RAID controllers are supported. If your RAID controller is not yet supported by dmraid, you may combine drives into RAID arrays by configuring Linux software RAID. For supported controllers, configure the RAID functions in the computer BIOS.

5.2.2. Multiple NICs and PXE Installation

Some servers with multiple network interfaces may not assign eth0 to the first network interface as BIOS knows it, which can cause the installer to try using a different network interface than was used by PXE. To change this behavior, use the following in pxelinux.cfg/* config files:

IPAPPEND 2 
APPEND ksdevice=bootif

The configuration options above causes the installer to use the same network interface as BIOS and PXE use. You can also use the following option:

ksdevice=link 

This option causes the installer to use the first network device it finds that is linked to a network switch.

5.2.3. HP ProLiant DL360 med Smart Array

If you have difficulties with this installation not detecting the Smart Array card, try entering linux isa on the installer prompt. This lets you manually select the card.

5.2.4. Drivers Requiring Firmware

Currently, Anaconda is not able to load userland firmware. This means that any devices with a driver that relies on loaded firmware will not be supported at install time. This includes all QLogic storage controllers.

Gå til http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades for detaljerte anbefalte prosedyrer for oppgradering av Fedora.

5.3.1. SCSI driver partition limits

Whereas older IDE drivers supported up to 63 partitions per device, SCSI devices are limited to 15 partitions per device. Anaconda uses the new libata driver in the same fashion as the rest of Fedora, so it is unable to detect more than 15 partitions on an IDE disk during the installation or upgrade process.

If you are upgrading a system with more than 15 partitions, you may need to migrate the disk to Logical Volume Management (LVM). This restriction may cause conflicts with other installed systems if they do not support LVM. Most modern Linux distributions support LVM, and drivers are available for other operating systems as well.

5.3.2. Diskpartisjoner må merkes

A change in the way that the linux kernel handles storage devices means that device names like /dev/hdX or /dev/sdX may differ from the values used in earlier releases. Anaconda solves this problem by relying on partition labels. If these labels are not present, then Anaconda presents a warning indicating that partitions need to be labelled and that the upgrade can not proceed. Systems that use Logical Volume Management (LVM) and the device mapper usually do not require relabeling.

5.3.2.1. Å sjekke etikettene på diskpartisjoner

For å se partisjonsetikettene, start opp en eksisterende Fedora-installasjon og skriv inn følgende i en kommandolinje:

/sbin/blkid

Bekreft at hver volumlinje i listen har en LABEL=-verdi, slik som vist under:

/dev/hdd1: LABEL="/boot" UUID="ec6a9d6c-6f05-487e-a8bd-a2594b854406" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
5.3.2.2. Update the file system mount entries

Hvis noen filsystemsetiketter ble lagt til eller endret, så må enhetsnavnene endres i /etc/fstab også, så de stemmer overens:

su -c 'cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.orig'
su -c 'gedit /etc/fstab'

Et eksempel på en montering ved hjelp av en etikett er:

LABEL=f7-slash  /  ext3  defaults  1 1
5.3.2.3. Oppdater kjernerotinnslag til grub.conf

Hvis etiketten for filsystemet / (root) ble endret, må også kjernestartsparameteret endres i grub-konfigurasjonen:

su -c 'gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf'

Et eksempel på en kjernegrub-linje er:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 ro root=LABEL=f7-slash rhgb quiet
5.3.2.4. Test endringer som ble gjort på etikettene

Hvis partisjonsetikettene ble justert eller at /etc/fstab-filen ble endret, så start den eksisterende Fedora-installasjonen for å bekrefte at alle partisjonene fortsatt monteres normalt og at du kan logge inn. Når det er gjort, start på nytt med installasjonsmediet for å starte installasjonsprogrammet og begynn oppgraderingen.

5.3.3. Oppgradering sammenlignet med en ny installasjon

In general, fresh installations are recommended over upgrades, particularly for systems that include software from third-party repositories. Third-party packages remaining from a previous installation may not work as expected on an upgraded Fedora system. If you decide to perform an upgrade anyway, the following information may be helpful:

  • Before you upgrade, back up the system completely. In particular, preserve /etc, /home, and possibly /opt and /usr/local if customized packages are installed there. You may wish to use a multi-boot approach with a "clone" of the old installation on alternate partition(s) as a fallback. In that case, create alternate boot media, such as a GRUB boot floppy.

    [Tip] System Configuration Backups

    Backups of configurations in /etc are also useful in reconstructing system settings after a fresh installation.

  • Etter at du har fullført oppgraderingen, kjør følgende kommando:

  • rpm -qa --last > RPMS_by_Install_Time.txt 
    

    Inspect the end of the output for packages that pre-date the upgrade. Remove or upgrade those packages from third-party repositories, or otherwise deal with them as necessary. Some previously installed packages may no longer be available in any configured repository. To list all these packages, use the following command:

    su -c 'yum list extras'

6. Architecture Specific Notes

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This section provides notes that are specific to the supported hardware architectures of Fedora.

6.1. RPM multiarch support on 64-bit platforms (x86_64, ppc64)

RPM supports parallel installation of multiple architectures of the same package. A default package listing such as rpm -qa might appear to include duplicate packages, since the architecture is not displayed. Instead, use the repoquery command, part of the yum-utils package, which displays architecture by default. To install yum-utils, run the following command:

su -c 'yum install yum-utils'

For å liste opp alle pakkene sammen med deres arkitektur, ved å bruke rpm, kjør følgende kommando:

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n"

You can add this to /etc/rpm/macros (for a system wide setting) or ~/.rpmmacros (for a per-user setting). It changes the default query to list the architecture:

%_query_all_fmt      %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}

6.2. Spesifikt for Fedora på PPC

Denne seksjonen inneholder informasjon om Fedora og maskinvareplattformen PPC.

6.2.1. Maskinvarekrav for PPC

6.2.1.1. Prosessor og minne
  • Minimum CPU: PowerPC G3 / POWER3

  • Fedora 8 støtter bare «New World»-generasjonen av Apple Power Macintosh, levert fra ca. 1999 og fremover.

  • Fedora 8 støtter også IBM pSeries, IBM iSeries, IBM RS/6000, Genesi Pegasos II, og IBM Cell Broadband Engine-maskiner.

  • Fedora 8 inkluderer ny maskinvarestøtte for Genesi Efika og Sony PlayStation 3.

  • Anbefalt for tekst-modus: 233 MHz G3 eller bedre, 128MB RAM.

  • Anbefalt for grafisk-modus: 400 MHz G3 eller bedre, 256MB RAM.

6.2.1.2. Harddiskplass

The disk space requirements listed below represent the disk space taken up by Fedora 8 after installation is complete. However, additional disk space is required during installation to support the installation environment. This additional disk space corresponds to the size of /Fedora/base/stage2.img (on Installation Disc 1) plus the size of the files in /var/lib/rpm on the installed system.

In practical terms, additional space requirements may range from as little as 90 MiB for a minimal installation to as much as an additional 175 MiB for an "everything" installation. The complete packages can occupy over 9 GB of disk space.

Additional space is also required for any user data, and at least 5% free space should be maintained for proper system operation.

6.2.2. 4 KiB Pages on 64-bit machines

After a brief experiment with 64KiB pages in Fedora Core 6, the PowerPC64 kernel has now been switched back to 4KiB pages. The installer should reformat any swap partitions automatically during an upgrade.

6.2.3. Apple-tastaturet

The Option key on Apple systems is equivalent to the Alt key on the PC. Where documentation and the installer refer to the Alt key, use the Option key. For some key combinations you may need to use the Option key in conjunction with the Fn key, such as Option+Fn+F3 to switch to virtual terminal tty3.

6.2.4. Installasjonsnotater for PPC

Fedora Installation Disc 1 is bootable on supported hardware. In addition, a bootable CD image appears in the images/ directory of this disc. These images behave differently according to your system hardware:

  • On most machines, the bootloader automatically boots the appropriate 32-bit or 64-bit installer from the install disc. The default gnome-power-manager package includes power management support, including sleep and backlight level management. Users with more complex requirements can use the apmud package. To install apmud after installation, use the following command:

    su -c 'yum install apmud'
  • 64-bit IBM pSeries (POWER4/POWER5), nåværende iSeries-modeller. After using OpenFirmware to boot the CD, the bootloader, yaboot, automatically boots the 64-bit installer.

  • IBM "Legacy" iSeries (POWER4). De såkalte «Legacy» iSeries-modellene, som ikke bruker OpenFirmware, krever bruk av et oppstartsavbilde som er plassert i mappen images/iSeries i installasjonstreet.

  • 32-bit CHRP (IBM RS/6000 og andre).  After using OpenFirmware to boot the CD, select the linux32 boot image at the boot: prompt to start the 32-bit installer. Otherwise, the 64-bit installer starts and fails.

  • Genesi Pegasos II.  At the time of writing, firmware with full support for ISO9660 file systems has not yet been released for the Pegasos. You can use the network boot image, however. At the OpenFirmware prompt, enter the following command:

    boot cd: /images/netboot/ppc32.img

    You must also configure OpenFirmware on the Pegasos manually to make the installed Fedora system bootable. To do this, set the boot-device and boot-file environment variables appropriately.

  • Genesi Efika.  At the time of writing, the firmware of the Efika has bugs which prevent correct operation of the yaboot bootloader. An updated firmware should be available by April 2007, in advance of the release of Fedora 8. With a fixed firmware, installation on Efika should be the same as on Pegasos II.

  • Sony PlayStation 3.  For installation on PlayStation 3, first update to firmware 1.60 or later. The "Other OS" boot loader must be installed into the flash, following the instructions at http://www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform/manual.html. A suitable boot loader image is located on the Fedora 8 install media. Once the boot loader is installed, the PlayStation 3 should boot from the Fedora install media. Select the linux64 from the graphical boot menu. For more information on Fedora and the PlayStation3 or Fedora on PowerPC in general, join the Fedora-PPC mailing list or the #fedora-ppc channel on FreeNode.

  • Network booting.  Combined images containing the installer kernel and ramdisk are located in the images/netboot/ directory of the installation tree. They are intended for network booting with TFTP, but can be used in many ways.

    The yaboot loader supports TFTP booting for IBM pSeries and Apple Macintosh. The Fedora Project encourages the use of yaboot over the netboot images.

6.3. x86 Specifics for Fedora

Denne seksjonen inneholder informasjon om Fedora og maskinvareplattformen x86.

6.3.1. Maskinvarekrav for x86

For å kunne bruke spesifikke funksjoner i Fedora 8 under eller etter installasjon, trenger du kanskje å vite litt detaljer om maskinvaren, slik som grafikk- eller nettverkskort.

6.3.1.1. Prosessor og minne

The following CPU specifications are stated in terms of Intel processors. Other processors, such as those from AMD, Cyrix, and VIA that are compatible with and equivalent to the following Intel processors, may also be used with Fedora.

Fedora 8 krever en Intel Pentium eller bedre prosessor, og er optimalisert for Pentium 4 og senere prosessorer.

  • Anbefalt for tekst-modus: 200 MHz Pentium-klasse eller bedre

  • Anbefalt for grafisk-modus: 400 MHz Pentium II eller bedre

  • Minimum RAM for tekst-modus: 128MB

  • Minimum RAM for grafisk-modus: 192MB

  • Anbefalt RAM for grafisk-modus: 256MB

6.3.1.2. Harddiskplass

The disk space requirements listed below represent the disk space taken up by Fedora 8 after the installation is complete. However, additional disk space is required during the installation to support the installation environment. This additional disk space corresponds to the size of /Fedora/base/stage2.img on Installation Disc 1 plus the size of the files in /var/lib/rpm on the installed system.

In practical terms, additional space requirements may range from as little as 90 MiB for a minimal installation to as much as an additional 175 MiB for an "everything" installation. The complete packages can occupy over 9 GB of disk space.

Additional space is also required for any user data, and at least 5% free space should be maintained for proper system operation.

6.4. Spesifikt for Fedora på x86_64

Denne seksjonen inneholder spesifikk informasjon om Fedora og maskinvareplattformen x86_64

6.4.1. Maskinvarekrav for x86_64

For å kunne bruke spesifikke funksjoner i Fedora 8 under eller etter installasjon, trenger du kanskje å vite litt detaljer om maskinvaren, slik som grafikk- eller nettverkskort.

6.4.1.1. Minnekrav for x86_64
  • Minimum RAM for tekst-modus: 256MB

  • Minimum RAM for grafisk-modus: 384MB

  • Anbefalt RAM for grafisk-modus: 512MB

6.4.1.2. Krav til diskplass for x86_64

The disk space requirements listed below represent the disk space taken up by Fedora 8 after the installation is complete. However, additional disk space is required during the installation to support the installation environment. This additional disk space corresponds to the size of /Fedora/base/stage2.img on Installation Disc 1 plus the size of the files in /var/lib/rpm on the installed system.

In practical terms, additional space requirements may range from as little as 90 MiB for a minimal installation to as much as an additional 175 MiB for an "everything" installation. The complete packages can occupy over 9 GB of disk space.

Additional space is also required for any user data, and at least 5% free space should be maintained for proper system operation.

7. Fedora Live-avbilder

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The Fedora release includes several live ISO images in addition to the traditional installation images. These ISO images are bootable, and you can burn them to media and use them to try out Fedora. They also include a feature that allows you to install the Live image content to your hard drive for persistence and higher performance.

7.1. Tilgjengelige avbilder

Det er fire Live-avbilder tilgjengelig for Fedora 8.

  1. Fedora Live (i686, x86_64, ppc). This image includes the GNOME desktop environment, integrates all supported Fedora locales, and features a basic set of productivity applications. Only the i686 version fits on a CD. The x86_64 version has the same feature set and includes multilib packages.

  2. Fedora KDE Live (i686, x86_64). This image includes the KDE desktop environment, with full support for English language only. Only the i686 version fits on a CD. The x86_64 version has the same feature set and includes multilib packages.

  3. Fedora Developer Live (i686). This Live image is designed for software developers, and features the GNOME desktop environment. The toolkit includes the Eclipse integrated development environment, API documentation, and a variety of debugging and profiling utilities.

  4. Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) Live (i686). Dette Live-avbildet er laget for ingeniører som arbeider med elektronikk, og det inkluderer et verktøysett for utforming og simulering av elektroniske komponenter. Avbildet passer på en CD.

7.2. Bruksinformasjon

To boot from the Live image, insert it into your computer and restart. To log in and use the desktop environment, enter the username fedora. Hit Enter at the password prompt, since there is no password on this account. The Live images do not automatically login so users can select a preferred language. After logging in, if you wish to install the contents of the live image to your hard drive, click on the Install to Hard Drive icon on the desktop.

[Note] Ingen i586-støtte

i686-Live-avbildene vil ikke starte opp på en i586-maskin.

7.3. Installasjon i tekst-modus

Du kan foreta en installasjon av Live-avbildet i tekst-modus ved å bruke kommandoen liveinst på kommandolinjen.

7.4. Starte opp fra USB

En annen måte å bruke disse Live-avbildene på, er å legge dem på en USB-minnepinne. For å gjøre dette, installer livecd-tools-pakken fra utviklingspakkebrønnen. Kjør så skriptet livecd-iso-to-disk:

/usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk /path/to/live.iso /dev/sdb1

Erstatt /dev/sdb1 med den partisjonen hvor du vil legge avbildet.

Dette er ikke en destruktiv prosess; all data du allerede har på USB-minnepinnen blir tatt vare på.

7.5. Forskjeller fra en vanlig Fedora-installasjon

Følgende saker er forskjellig fra en normal Fedora-installasjon med et Live-avbilde:

  • Live-avbilder tilbyr et utvalg av pakker som er tilgjengelig i DVD-utgaven. Begge kobler til samme pakkebrønn som har alle pakkene.

  • SSH is disabled by default and NetworkManager is enabled by default in the Live images. SSH is disabled because the default username in the Live images does not have any password. Installation to hard disk prompts for creating a new user name and password however. NetworkManager is enabled by default since Live images target desktop users.

  • Live image installations do not allow any package selection or upgrade capability since they copy entire the filesystem from media to hard disk or USB disks. After the installation is complete and rebooted, packages can be added and removed as desired with yum or the other software management tools.

  • Live-avbilder fungerer ikke på i586-arkitekturen.

8. Package Notes

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The following sections contain information regarding software packages that have undergone significant changes for Fedora 8. For easier access, they are generally organized using the same groups that are shown in the installation system.

8.1. Endringer i Yum

The installonlyn plugin functionality has been folded into the core yum package. The installonlypkgs and installonly_limit options are used by default to limit the system to retain only two kernel packages. You can adjust the package set or the number of packages, or disable the option entirely to match your preferences. More details are available in the man page for yum.conf.

The yum command now retries when it detects a lock. This function is useful if a daemon is checking for updates, or if you are running yum and one of its graphical frontends simultaneously.

The yum command now understands a cost parameter in its configuration file, which is the relative cost of accessing a software repository. It is useful for weighing one software repository's packages as greater or less than any other. The cost parameter defaults to 1000.

8.2. Utility Packages

Pakken cryptsetup-luks package har endret navn til cryptsetup.

Pakken i810switch har blitt fjernet. Denne funksjonaliteten er nå tilgjengelig via kommandoen xrandr i xorg-x11-server-utils-pakken.

The evolution-exchange package replaces evolution-connector, and provides a capability under the old name.

The system-config-firewall and system-config-selinux packages replace system-config-security-level. The system-config-selinux package is part of the policycoreutils-gui package.

9. Linux Kernel

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Denne seksjonen inneholder endringer og viktig informasjon om 2.6.23-baserte kjerner i Fedora 8. 2.6.23-kjernen inneholder følgende:

  • Tickless support for x86 64-bit systems (32-bit was added previously), which greatly improves power management.

  • Some elements of the realtime kernel project.

  • Spec-filen for kjernen heter nå kernel.spec istedenfor kernel-2.6.spec.

  • The kernel spec file has new macros that ease the kernel building process. Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel for further information.

  • The kernel in Fedora 8 no longer loads modules by default for ISA sound cards. Load the module by hand using the command modprobe module-name, or put an entry in /etc/modprobe.conf. For example, for the Creative SoundBlaster AWE64, add the following entry:

    install snd-sbawe

9.1. Versjon

Fedora may include additional patches to the kernel for improvements, bug fixes, or additional features. For this reason, the Fedora kernel may not be line-for-line equivalent to the so-called vanilla kernel from the kernel.org web site:

http://www.kernel.org/

To obtain a list of these patches, download the source RPM package and run the following command against it:

rpm -qpl kernel-<version>.src.rpm 

9.2. Endringslogg

For å få tak i en liste over endringer i en pakke, kjør følgende kommando:

rpm -q --changelog kernel-<version> 

If you need a user friendly version of the changelog, refer to http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges. A short and full diff of the kernel is available from http://kernel.org/git. The Fedora version kernel is based on the Linus tree.

Customizations made for the Fedora version are available from http://cvs.fedoraproject.org.

9.3. Kjerne-varianter

Fedora 8 inneholder følgende kjerne-varianter:

  • Native kernel, for use in most systems. Configured sources are available in the kernel-devel package.

  • The kernel-PAE, for use in 32-bit x86 systems with more than 4GB of RAM, or with CPUs that have an NX (No eXecute) feature. This kernel support both uniprocessor and multi-processor systems. Configured sources are available in the kernel-PAE-devel package.

  • Virtualization kernel for use with the Xen emulator package. Configured sources are available in the kernel-xen-devel package.

You may install kernel headers for all kernel flavors at the same time. The files are installed in the /usr/src/kernels/version[-PAE|-xen|-kdump]-arch/ tree. Use the following command:

su -c 'yum install kernel{,-PAE,-xen,-kdump}-devel' 

Select one or more of these flavors, separated by commas and no spaces, as appropriate. Enter the root password when prompted.

[Note] x86 Kernel Includes Kdump

Both the x86_64 and the i686 kernels are now relocatable, so they no longer require a separate kernel for kdump capability. PPC64 still requires a separate kdump kernel.

[Note] Default Kernel Provides SMP

There is no separate SMP kernel available for Fedora on i386, x86_64, and ppc64. Multiprocessor support is provided by the native kernel.

[Note] Kjernestøtte for PowerPC

Det er ingen støtte for Xen eller kdump for PowerPC-arkitekturen i Fedora. 32-bits PowerPC har fortsatt en egen SMP-kjerne.

9.4. Rapportere feil

Gå til http://kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html for informasjon om hvordan rapportere feil i Linux-kjernen. Du kan også bruke http://bugzilla.redhat.com for å rapportere feil som er spesifikke for Fedora.

9.5. Forberedelse for kjerneutvikling

Fedora 8 inkluderer ikke kernel-source-pakken, som er gitt ut i tidligere utgivelser, ettersom den enesten pakken som kreves for å bygge eksterne moduler, er kernel-devel. Konfigurerte kilder er tilgjengelig, slik som beskrevet på Section 9.3, “Kjerne-varianter”.

[Important] Tilpasset kjernebygging

For informasjon om kjernebygging og arbeide med tilpassede kjerner, gå til http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel.

10. Fedora Desktop

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This section details changes that affect Fedora graphical desktop users.

10.1. GNOME

Denne utgivelsen inneholder GNOME 2.20.

The GNOME splash screen has been disabled upstream intentionally. To enable it, use gconf-editor or the following command:

gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-session/options/show_splash_screen --type bool true

The lock screen dialog theme is not connected to the selected screensaver in this release. To enable it, use gconf-editor or the following command:

gconftool-2 --set  --type string /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_dialog_theme  "system"

10.2. KDE

This release features KDE 3.5.8. In addition, the kdepim package has been updated to a version from the kdepim/enterprise branch, which includes many bugfixes and enhancements beyond the stock upstream kdepim.

Fedora 8 does not include the KDE 4 Desktop because the currently available prerelease versions are not ready for daily use. It does include the KDE 4 Development Platform, which can be used to develop, build, and run KDE 4 applications within KDE 3 or any other desktop environment. See the Development section for more details about what is included.

Since knetworkmanager does not work with the version of NetworkManager available in this release, the KDE Live images use nm-applet from NetworkManager-gnome as a replacement. The gnome-keyring-daemon facility saves passwords for these encryption technologies. The knetworkmanager package in this release is a script that calls nm-applet. The knetworkmanager package will be updated to provide a KDE frontend when a compatible version is available.

Due to the merge of compiz and beryl into compiz-fusion, KDE now uses compiz. To switch from kwin to compiz, use the helper provided in the menu under Settings Desktop Effects.

10.3. Nettlesere

Denne utgivelsen av Feodra inkluderer versjon 2.0 av den populære nettleseren Firefox. Gå til http://firefox.com/ for mer informasjon om Firefox.

10.3.1. Enabling Flash Plugin

Fedora includes an experimental free and open source implementation of Flash called gnash. We encourage you to experiment with gnash before seeking out Adobe's proprietary Flash plugin software.

To install Adobe Flash plugin follow this procedure:

  1. Besøk Adobes nedlastingsside.

  2. Choose option 3, Yum repository.

  3. Follow onscreen prompts to install the package.

  4. Start Programmer Legg til/fjern programvare.

  5. Velg Søk og skriv inn flash-plugin.

  6. Velg avkryssingsboksen for å installere pakken

  7. Lukk alle vinduene til Firefox og start så Firefox på nytt igjen.

  8. Skriv inn about:plugins i adressefeltet i nettleseren for å sjekke at programvaretillegget er lastet inn.

Users of Fedora x86_64 must install the nspluginwrapper.i386 package to enable the 32-bit Adobe Flash plugin in x86_64 Firefox and the pulseaudio-libs.i386 package to enable sound from the plugin..

  1. Create the 32bit mozilla plugin directory using this command:

    su -c 'mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins'
  2. Installer pakkene nspluginwrapper.i386, nspluginwrapper.x86_64 og pulseaudio-libs.i386:

    su -c "yum -y install nspluginwrapper.{i386,x86_64} pulseaudio-libs.i386"
  3. Installer flash-plugin som vist over.

  4. Run mozilla-plugin-config to register the flash plugin:

    su -c 'mozilla-plugin-config -i -g -v'
  5. Lukk alle Firefox-vinduene, og start Firefox på nytt.

  6. Skriv inn about:plugins i adressefeltet i nettleseren for å sjekke at programvaretillegget er lastet inn.

10.4. E-postklienter

The mail-notification package has been split. The Evolution plugin is now in a separate package called mail-notification-evolution-plugin. When you update the mail-notification package, the plugin is added automatically.

This release contains Thunderbird version 2.0, which has numerous performance improvements, folder viewing enhancements, and enhanced mail notification support.

10.5. Liberation Fonts

This release of Fedora includes a set of fonts called "Liberation." These fonts are metric equivalents for well-known proprietary fonts prevalent on the Internet. With these fonts, users will find better cross-platform viewing and printing support for a variety of documents. Future versions of these fonts will be fully hinted.

11. Filsystemer

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Fedora 8 provides basic support for encrypted swap partitions and non-root file systems. To use it, add entries to /etc/crypttab and reference the created devices in /etc/fstab.

[Note] Encrypted FS Support Unavailable During Install

Enable file system encryption after installation. Anaconda does not have support for creating encrypted block devices.

The following example shows an /etc/crypttab entry for a swap partition:

my_swap /dev/sdb1 /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 

This command creates an encrypted block device /dev/mapper/my_swap, which can be referenced in /etc/fstab. The next example shows an entry for a filesystem volume:

my_volume /dev/sda5 /etc/volume_key cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 

Filen /etc/volume_key inneholder en krypteringsnøkkel i ren tekst. Du kan også spesifisere none som nøkkelfilnavn, og systemet vil da spørre om krypteringsnøkkelen under oppstart istedenfor.

The recommended method is to use LUKS for file system volumes. If you are using LUKS you can drop the cipher= declaration in /etc/crypttab).

  1. Create the encrypted volume using cryptsetup luksFormat.

  2. Add the necessary entry to /etc/crypttab.

  3. Set up the volume manually using cryptsetup luksOpen or reboot.

  4. Opprett et filsystem på det krypterte volumet.

  5. Sett opp et innslag i /etc/fstab.

12. E-posttjenere

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This section concerns electronic mail servers or mail transfer agents (MTAs).

12.1. Sendmail

By default, the Sendmail mail transport agent (MTA) does not accept network connections from any host other than the local computer. To configure Sendmail as a server for other clients, edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and change the DAEMON_OPTIONS line to also listen on network devices, or comment out this option entirely using the dnl comment delimiter. Then install the sendmail-cf package and regenerate /etc/mail/sendmail.cf by running the following commands:

su -c 'yum install sendmail-cf' 
su -c 'make -C /etc/mail'

13. Utvikling

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Denne seksjonen dekker forskjellige utviklingsverktøy og -egenskaper.

13.1. Verktøy

13.1.1. GCC-kompilatorsamling

Denne utgivelsen av Fedora har blitt bygget med GCC 4.1.2, som er inkludert i distribusjonen.

13.1.1.1. Code Generation

Fra og med gcc-4.1.2-25 og glibc-2.6.90-14, beskytter ikke valget -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 bare C-kode, men også C++. Det har vært mange sikkerhetsproblemer allerede, som ikke kunne ha blitt utnyttet hvis denne sjekken var på plass tidligere. Gå til denne kunngjøringen for flere detaljer.

13.1.2. Eclipse

Denne utgivelsen av Fedora inkluderer Fedora Eclipse, basert på Eclipse SDK versjonen 3.3.0. Du kan lese på «New and Noteworthy»-siden for3.3.x-serien på http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.3-2007-06251500/whatsnew/eclipse-news.html. Utgivelsesnotatene som er spesifikk for 3.3.0, er tilgjengelig på http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.3.html.

The Eclipse SDK is known variously as "the Eclipse Platform," "the Eclipse IDE," and "Eclipse." The Eclipse SDK is the foundation for the combined release of twenty-one Eclipse projects under the Callisto combined release umbrella (http://www.eclipse.org/europa). A few of these Europa projects are included in Fedora:

Andre Eclipse-prosjekter i Fedora er:

Assistance in getting more projects packaged and tested with GCJ is always welcome. Contact the interested parties through fedora-devel-java-list (http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list/) and/or #fedora-java on freenode.

Fedora also includes plugins and features that are particularly useful to FLOSS hackers, ChangeLog editing with eclipse-changelog, and Bugzilla interaction with eclipse-mylyn-bugzilla. Our CDT package, eclipse-cdt, includes a snapshot release of work to integrate with the GNU Autotools.

The latest information regarding these projects can be found at the Fedora Eclipse Project page: http://sourceware.org/eclipse/.

13.1.2.1. Non-packaged Plugins/Features

Fedora Eclipse allows non-root users to make use of the Update Manager functionality for installing non-packaged plugins and features. Such plugins are installed in the user's home directory under the .eclipse directory. Please note, however, that these plugins do not have associated GCJ-compiled bits and may therefore run slower than expected.

13.1.2.2. Alternative Java Runtime Environments

The Fedora free JREs do not satisfy every user, so Fedora does allow the installation of alternative JREs. A caveat exists, however, for installing proprietary JREs on 64-bit machines.

The 64-bit JNI libraries shipped by default on x86_64 systems in Fedora do not run on 32-bit JREs. In other words, do not try to run Fedora's x86_64 Eclipse packages on Sun's 32-bit JRE. They fail in confusing ways. Either switch to a 64-bit proprietary JRE, or install the 32-bit version of the packages, if available. To install a 32-bit version, use the following command:

yum install <package_name>.i386 

Likewise, the 32-bit JNI libraries shipped by default on ppc64 systems do not run with a 64-bit JRE. To install the 64-bit version, use the following command:

yum install <package_name>.ppc64 

13.2. KDE 4 Development Platform

Fedora 8 inkluderer KDE 4.0 (beta) utviklingsbiblioteker. Følgende nye pakker er gitt:

  • kdelibs4: Bibliotek for KDE 4

  • kdepimlibs: Bibliotek for KDE 4 PIM

  • kdebase4: KDE 4 core runtime files

Bruk disse pakkene for å utvikle, bygge eller kjøre KDE4-programmer inne i KDE3 eller et annet skrivebordsmiljø.

The kdebase4 package also includes a beta version of the Dolphin file manager as a technology preview. As this is a beta version, some issues may still be present. If you need a stable version of Dolphin, please install the d3lphin package, which is based on KDE 3 and can be safely installed alongside kdebase4.

Disse pakkene er laget for å:

  • comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), and

  • være veldig trygt å installere parallelt med KDE 3, inkludert -devel-pakkene.

For å oppnå dette, gjorde medlemmene av Fedora KDE SIG 2 endringer til -devel-pakkene:

  • De symbolske lenkene til biblioteket er installert i /usr/lib/kde4/devel eller /usr/lib64/kde4/devel, avhengig av systemarkitekturen.

  • Verktøyene kconfig_compiler og makekdewidgets har endret navn til kconfig_compiler4 og makekdewidgets4.

These changes should be completely transparent to the vast majority of KDE 4 applications that use cmake to build, since FindKDE4Internal.cmake has been patched to match these changes.

Note that kdebase4 does not include the KDE 4 Desktop package kdebase-workspace and its components such as Plasma and KWin version 4. The kdebase-workspace package is still too incomplete and unstable for daily use and would conflict with KDE 3.

14. Sikkerhet

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Denne seksjonen fremhever forskjellige sikkerhetselementer fra Fedora.

14.1. Sikkerhetsforbedringer

  • Fedora fortsetter å forbedre sine proaktive sikkerhetsfunksjoner, og FORTIFY_SOURCE har nå blitt forbedret til å dekke C++ i tillegg til C, som hindrer mange sikkerhetsutnyttelser.

  • Et helt nytt grafisk verktøy for å konfigurere en brannvegg, system-config-firewall, erstatter system-config-securitylevel.

  • This release offers Kiosk functionality via SELinux, among many new enhancements and security policy changes.

  • glibc-pakken i Fedora 8 har nå støtte for passord som bruker SHA256 og SHA512 hasher. Før var bare DES og MD5 tilgjengelig. Verktøyene for å opprette slike passord har ikke denne muligheten enda, men hvis slike passord er laget på andre måter, så vil glibc gjenkjenne og bruke dem.

  • Secure remote management capability is now provided for Xen, KVM, and QEMU in Fedora 8 virtualization.

14.2. Generell informasjon

En generell introduksjon til mange proaktive sikkerhetsfunksjoner i Fedora, nåværende status og praksiser er tilgjengelig på http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security.

14.2.1. SELinux

Prosjektsidene til SELinux har mange feilsøkningstips, forklaringer og pekere til dokumentasjon og referanser. Noen nyttige lenker inkluderer følgende:

15. IcedTea og java-gcj-compat

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15.1. IcedTea

This release of Fedora includes the IcedTea environment. IcedTea is a build harness for Sun's OpenJDK code that replaces encumbered parts of OpenJDK with Free Software replacements. IcedTea provides a more complete, compatible environment than GCJ, including support for building and running bytecode up to the 1.6 level. Users of IcedTea should be aware of a few caveats:

  • Det er ingen støtte for ppc eller ppc64. Brukere av ppc- og ppc64-systemer må fortsette å bruke GCJ.

  • There is no support for the Java sound APIs.

  • Det mangler et par kryptografiske algoritmer.

15.2. Handling Java Applets

The Fedora IcedTea packages also include an adaptation of gcjwebplugin that runs untrusted applets safely in a web browser. The plugin is packaged as java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin.

  • The gcjwebplugin adaptation has no support for the bytecode-to-Javascript bridge, so applets that rely on this bridge will not work.

  • The gcjwebplugin adaptation has no support for signed applets. Signed applets will run in untrusted mode.

  • The gcjwebplugin security policy may be overly restrictive. To enable restricted applets, run firefox -g in a terminal window to see what is being restricted, then grant the restricted permission in /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0/jre/lib/security/java.policy.

15.3. java-gcj-compat

This release of Fedora includes java-gcj-compat. The java-gcj-compat collection includes a tool suite and execution environment that is capable of building and running many useful programs that are written in the Java programming language.

The java-gcj infrastructure has three key components: a GNU Java runtime (libgcj), the Eclipse Java compiler (ecj), and a set of wrappers and links (java-gcj-compat) that present the runtime and compiler to the user in a manner similar to other Java environments.

The Java software packages in this Fedora release use the java-gcj-compat environment. These packages include OpenOffice.org Base, Eclipse, and Apache Tomcat. Refer to the Java FAQ at http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/JavaFAQ for more information on the java-gcj-compat free Java environment in Fedora.

[Important] Include Location and Version Information in Bug Reports

Når du lager en feilrapport, pass på å legg ved utskriften fra disse kommandoene:

which java && java -version && which javac && javac -version 

15.4. Handling Java and Java-like Packages

In addition to the java-gcj-compat free software stack, Fedora lets you install multiple Java implementations and switch between them using the alternatives command line tool. However, every Java system you install must be packaged using the JPackage Project packaging guidelines to take advantage of alternatives. Once these packages are installed properly, the root user may switch between java and javac implementations using the alternatives command:

alternatives --config java alternatives --config javac 

En enklere måte å velge imellom Java-alternativene, er å bruke vertøyet system-switch-java, som er inkludert i Fedora.

15.5. Fedora and the JPackage Java Packages

Fedora includes many packages derived from the JPackage Project, which provides a Java software repository. These packages are modified in Fedora to remove proprietary software dependencies and to make use of GCJ's ahead-of-time compilation feature. Use the Fedora repositories to update these packages, or use the JPackage repository for packages not provided by Fedora. Refer to the JPackage website at http://jpackage.org for more information on the project and the software it provides.

[Warning] Blande pakker fra Fedora og JPackage

Research package compatibility before you install software from both the Fedora and JPackage repositories on the same system. Incompatible packages may cause complex issues.

Gå til de siste utgivelsesnotatene som berører Eclipse på http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Devel/Tools/Eclipse.

15.6. Maven (v2)

This release of Fedora includes maven2, a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven can be invoked by the mvn and mvn-jpp commands. The former makes Maven behave just like upstream Maven, while the latter calls mvn with additional properties that make off-line building easier.

The maven2 package in Fedora is modified to work in a fully off-line mode. With no additional properties defined (the mvn command), maven2 works exactly like upstream Maven. Users may define additional properties to facilitate off-line builds, or call mvn-jpp, a wrapper that defines the most commonly used properties for off-line building. The properties and their usage details are described in the /usr/share/doc/maven2-2.0.4/maven2-jpp-readme.html file, which comes from the maven2-manual package.

16. Multimedia

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Fedora includes applications for assorted multimedia functions, including playback, recording, and editing. Additional packages are available through the Fedora Package Collection software repository. For additional information about multimedia in Fedora, refer to the Multimedia section of the Fedora Project website at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia.

16.1. Multimedia Players

The default installation of Fedora includes Rhythmbox and Totem for media playback. The Fedora repositories include many other popular programs such as the XMMS player and KDE's amaroK. Both GNOME and KDE have a selection of players that can be used with a variety of formats. Third parties may offer additional programs to handle other formats.

Fedora also takes full advantage of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) sound system. Many programs can play sound simultaneously, which was once difficult on Linux systems. When all multimedia software is configured to use ALSA for sound support, this limitation disappears. For more information about ALSA, visit the project website at http://www.alsa-project.org/. Users may still experience issues when multiple users log into the system. Depending upon hardware and software configurations, multiple users may not be able to use the sound hardware simultaneously.

16.2. Ogg and Xiph.Org Foundation Formats

Fedora includes complete support for the Ogg media container format and the Vorbis audio, Theora video, Speex audio, and FLAC lossless audio formats. These freely-distributable formats are not encumbered by patent or license restrictions. They provide powerful and flexible alternatives to more popular, restricted formats. The Fedora Project encourages the use of open formats in place of restricted ones. For more information on these formats and how to use them, refer to the Xiph.Org Foundation's web site at http://www.xiph.org/.

16.3. MP3, DVD og andre ekskluderte multimediaformater

Fedora software repositories cannot include support for MP3 or DVD video playback or recording. The MP3 formats are patented, and the patent holders have not provided the necessary patent licenses. DVD video formats are patented and equipped with an encryption scheme. The patent holders have not provided the necessary patent licenses, and the code needed to decrypt CSS-encrypted discs may violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a copyright law of the United States. Fedora also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright, or license restrictions, including Adobe's Flash Player and Real Media's Real Player. For more on this subject, please refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems.

While other MP3 options may be available for Fedora, Fluendo now offers a free MP3 plugin for GStreamer that has the necessary patent license for end users. This plugin enables MP3 support in applications that use the GStreamer framework as a backend. Fedora does not include this plugin since we prefer to support and encourage the use of patent unrestricted open formats instead. For more information about the MP3 plugin, visit Fluendo's website at http://www.fluendo.com/.

16.4. CD and DVD Authoring and Burning

Fedora software repositories includes a variety of tools for easily mastering and burning CDs and DVDs. GNOME users can burn directly from the Nautilus file manager, choose the gnomebaker or graveman packages, or utilize the older xcdroast package from Fedora. KDE users can use the robust k3b package for these tasks. Console tools include cdrecord, readcd, mkisofs, and other popular applications.

16.5. Screencasts

You can use Fedora to create and play back screencasts, which are recorded desktop sessions, using open technologies. Fedora Package Collection software repository includes istanbul, which creates screencasts using the Theora video format. These videos can be played back using one of several players included in Fedora. This is the preferred way to submit screencasts to the Fedora Project for either developer or end-user use. For a more comprehensive how-to, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ScreenCasting.

16.6. Extended Support through Plugins

Most of the media players in Fedora software repositories can use plugins to add support for additional media formats and sound output systems. Some use powerful multimedia frameworks, like the gstreamer package, to handle media format support and sound output. Fedora software repositories offer plugin packages for these backends and for individual applications. Third parties may provide additional plugins to add even greater capabilities.

17. Spill og underholdning

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Fedora inneholder et utvalg av spill som dekker mange forskjellige sjangre. Brukere kan installere en liten pakke med spill for GNOME (kalt gnome-games) eller KDE (kdegames). Det er også mange flere spill som dekker alle viktige sjangre tilgjengelig i pakkebrønnen.

The Fedora Project website features a section dedicated to games that details many of the available games, including overviews and installation instructions. For more information, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Games.

For a list of other games that are available for installation, use the Pirut graphical utility (ApplicationsAdd/Remove Software), or via the command line:

yum groupinfo "Games and Entertainment" 

For hjelp til å bruke yum for å installere forskjellige spillpakker, gå til håndboken som er tilgjengelig på :x

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/

17.1. Haxima

Fedora 8 includes version 0.5.6 of the Nazghul old-school role playing game engine and its companion game Haxima. This version is not compatible with saved games from previous Nazghul versions, so those with Haxima games in progress need to restart their games after updating to Fedora 8.

18. Virtualisering

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Virtualisering i Fedora 8 støtter både Xen- og KVM-virtualiseringsplattformer. APIet libvirt og de tilhørende verktøyene, virt-manager og virsh, har blitt oppdatert til å støtte både KVM og Xen. Brukere kan velge hvilken virtualiseringsplattform de vil installere og bruke de samme samme verktøyene uavhengig hva som velges.

Xen i Fedora 8 er basert på versjon 3.1.0.

KVM i Fedora 8 er basert på versjon 36-2.

For mere informasjon om forskjellene mellom Xen og KVM, gå til http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/TechComparison. For mere informasjon om installasjon og bruk av virtualisering i Fedora 8, gå til http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora8VirtQuickStart.

18.1. Endringer til virtualiseringspakkene

Følgende forbedringer har blitt gjort i virtualiseringspakkene i Fedora 8:

  • Secure remote management of guest domains. Features include:

  • Introduksjon av Virt Viewer, et enkelt og minimalt grensesnitt for interaksjon med det grafiske konsollet til virtuelle maskiner. Virt Viewer er som en erstatning for vncviewer.

  • LibVNCServer-implementasjonen har blitt fjernet fra Xen og har blitt erstattet med QEMU.

  • Introduksjon av GTK-VNC, et GTK-skjermelement som gir en VNC-klient. For mere informasjon om GTK-VNC, gå til http://gtk-vnc.sourceforge.net/.

19. Vindussystemet X (grafikk)

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Dette avsnittet inneholder informasjon som er relatert til implementasjonen av vindussystemet X, X.org, som er gitt av Fedora.

19.1. Endringer i X-konfigurasjonen

X.org 7.2 X-serveren har blitt oppdatert til å automatisk oppdage og konfigurere det meste av maskinvare, hvilket gjør at brukere eller administratorer ikke lenger trenger åendre /etc/X11/xorg.conf konfigurasjonsfilen. Den eneste maskinvaren som blir konfigurert som standard i xorg.conf av anaconda er:

  • Grafikkort-driveren

  • Tastaturutformingen

All annen maskinvare, slik som monitorer (både LCD og CRT), USB-mus og styreplater, skal bli oppdaget og konfigurert automatisk.

X-tjeneren spør den tilkoblede monitoren for støttede intervaller for oppløsningen og forsøker å velge den høyeste oppløsningen som er tilgjengelig med riktig høyde/bredde-forhold for skjermen. Brukere kan også sette ønskelig oppløsning i SystemBrukervalgSkjermoppløsning, og den forvalgte oppløsningen for systemet kan endres med SystemAdministrasjonSkjerm.

Hvis konfigurasjonsfilen /etc/X11/xorg.conf ikke finnes, detekterer X automatisk en passende driver og antar et 105-tasters USA-tastaturutforming.

19.2. Notater om Intel-driveren

Fedora 8 contains two drivers for Intel integrated graphics controllers:

  • Den forvalgt i810-driveren, som inneholder støtte for Intels grafikkbrikkesett opptil og inklusiv i945 og i965

  • Den eksperimentelle intel-driveren, som inneholder støtte for Intels grafikkbrikkesett opptil og inklusiv i945

i810-driveren er begrenset til oppløsninger tilgjengelig i BIOS. Hvis du trenger støtte for ikke-standardiserte oppløsninger, slik som de som brukes i en del widescreen-skjermer, burde du kanskje endre til inteldriveren. Du kan endre drivere ved å bruke system-config-display, tilgjengelig i menyene under SystemAdministrasjonSkjerm.

Vi ønsker tilbakemeldinger på den eksperimentelle intel-driveren. Rapporter suksess i Bugzilla og legg ved full utskrift av lspci -vn for din maskin. Ved vellykkede rapporter, kan enkelte brikkesett bytte til å bruke intel-driveren som forvalgt.

19.3. Videodrivere fra tredjeparter

Om du tenker på å bruke videodrivere fra tredjepartsleverandører, gå til Xorgs nettside for drivere fra tredjeparter for detaljerte retningslinjer:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/3rdPartyVideoDrivers

20. Database tjenere

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20.1. MySQL

Fedora tilbyr nå MySQL 5.0.45. For en liste med forbedringer i denne versjonen, gå til http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-5-0-nutshell.html.

For mer informasjon om oppgradering av databaser fra tidligere versjoner av MySQL, gå til nettsiden til MySQL på http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/upgrade.html.

20.1.1. DBD-driver

The MySQL DBD driver has been dual-licensed and the related licensing issues have been resolved (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222237). The resulting apr-util-mysql package is now included in the Fedora software repositories.

20.2. PostgreSQL

Denne utgivelsen av Fedora inkluderer PostgreSQL 8.2.4. For mer informasjon om denne versjonen, gå til http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew.

[Important] Oppgradere databaser

Før oppgradering av et eksisterende Fedora-system med en PostgreSQL-database, kan det være nødvendig å følge prosedyrene som er beskrevet på http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/install-upgrading.html. Hvis ikke så kan det hende at dataene ikke er tilgjengelig i den nye versjonen av PostgreSQL.

21. Internasjonalisering (i18n)

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Denne seksjonen inneholder informasjon om språkstøtte i Fedora 8.

21.1. Language Coverage

21.1.1. Language support installation

To install additional language support from the Languages group, use Pirut via ApplicationsAdd/Remove Software, or run this command:

su -c 'yum groupinstall
	<language>-support'

I kommandoen over, <språk> er en av assamese, bengali, chinese, gujarati, hindi, japanese, kannada, korean, malayalam, marathi, oriya, punjabi, sinhala, tamil, thai eller telegu.

Users upgrading from earlier releases of Fedora are strongly recommended to install scim-bridge-gtk, which works well with 3rd party C++ applications linked against older versions of libstdc++.

To add SCIM support to input a particular language, install scim-lang-LANG, where LANG is one of assamese, bengali, chinese, dhivehi, farsi, gujarati, hindi, japanese, kannada, korean, latin, malayalam, marathi, oriya, punjabi, sinhalese, tamil, telugu, thai, or tibetan.

21.1.2. Transifex

This release features Transifex, a new tool designed to facilitate contributing translations to projects hosted on remote and disparate version control systems. Core packages in this release use Transifex to receive translations from numerous contributors.

Through a combination of new Web tools, community growth, and better processes, translators can now contribute directly to any upstream project through one translator-oriented Web interface. Developers of projects with no existing translation community can easily reach out to Fedora's established community for translations. In turn, translators can reach out to numerous projects related to Fedora to easily contribute translations.

21.2. Skrifter

In Fedora 8 fonts for all available languages are now installed by default on the desktop to give good default language coverage. Most of the fonts in generically named font packages have been moved to their own packages to reflect the upstream name and make font choices easier.

21.2.1. Arabic fonts

  • The kacst-fonts and paktype-fonts packages have been split out of fonts-arabic.

21.2.2. Kinesiske skrifter

  • pakken cjkunifonts-fonts har blitt skilt ut av fonts-chinese inn i to underpakker for typene Uming og Ukai.

  • Pakken taipeifonts har blitt skilt ut av fonts-chinese.

  • Pakken wqy-bitmap-fonts er nå installert som forvalg med kinesisk støtte.

  • Pakken wqy-unibit-fonts har blitt lagt til.

21.2.3. Hebrew fonts

  • The culmus-fonts fonts package has been split out of fonts-hebrew.

21.2.4. Indiske skrifter

  • Pakken lohit-fonts har blitt skilt ut av fonts-indic.

21.2.5. Japanske skrifter

  • Pakken sazanami-fonts package har blitt skilt ut av fonts-japanese inn i to underpakker for typene Gothic og Mincho.

  • Pakken jisksp16-1990-fonts har blitt skilt ut av fonts-japanese.

  • Pakken knm_new-fonts har blitt skilt ut av fonts-japanese.

VLGothic-fonts will become the new default Japanese font starting in Fedora 9.

21.2.6. Koreanske skrifter

  • The baekmuk-ttf-fonts and baekmuk-bdf-fonts packages have been split out of fonts-korean. The baekmuk-ttf-fonts package provides four subpackages for Batang, Dotum, Gulim and Headline typefaces.

21.2.7. Sinhala font

  • The lklug-fonts package has been split out of fonts-sinhala.

21.3. Inntastingsmetoder

21.3.1. Forbedret im-chooser

Brukergrensesnittet til im-chooser har blitt forbedret for å bli enklere å forstå.

Input methods only start by default on desktops running in an Asian locale. The current list is: as, bn, gu, hi, ja, kn, ko, ml, mr, ne, or, pa, si, ta, te, th, ur, vi, zh). Use im-chooser via SystemPreferencesPersonalInput Method to enable or disable SCIM on your desktop. To make changes effective, you must restart the desktop session.

21.3.2. SCIM hotkeys

The following table lists the default SCIM trigger hotkeys for different languages:

Språk Trigger hotkeys
alle Ctrl+Mellomrom
Japansk Zenkaku_Hankaku eller Alt+`
Koreansk Skift+Mellomrom eller Hangul

21.3.3. Andre inntastingsmetoder

This release adds support for the nabi input method for Korean Hangul.

22. Backwards Compatibility

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Fedora provides legacy system libraries for compatibility with older software. This software is part of the Legacy Software Development group, which is not installed by default. Users who require this functionality may select this group either during installation or after the installation process is complete. To install the package group on a Fedora system, use ApplicationsAdd/Remove Software (Pirut) or enter the following command in a terminal window:

su -c 'yum groupinstall "Legacy Software Development"'

Enter the password for the root account when prompted.

22.1. Compiler Compatibility

The compat-gcc-34 package has been included for compatibility reasons:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00409.html

23. Pakkeendringer

For en liste over hvilke pakker som har blitt oppdatert siden forrige utgivelse, gå til http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/PackageChanges/UpdatedPackages. Du kan også finne en sammenligning av viktig pakker mellom alle Fedora-versjoner på http://distrowatch.com/fedora.

24. Fedora Project

Målet med Fedora Project er å arbeide med Linux-samfunnet for å lage en komplett, allmenn-nyttig operativsystem, basert bare på programmer av åpen-kildekode. Fedora Project er drevet av individer som bidrar til det. Som en tester, utvikler, skribent eller oversetter, kan du gjøre en forskjell. Gå til http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora.html for detaljer. For informasjon om mulige informasjonskanaler for brukere og bidragsytere til Fedora, gå til http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate.

Fedora Project er drevet av individer som bidrar til det. Som en tester, utvikler, skribent eller oversetter, kan du gjøre en forskjell. Se http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join for detaljer. For informasjon om mulige informasjonskanaler for brukere og bidragsytere til Fedora, gå til http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate.

I tillegg til nettsiden, er følgende e-postlister tilgjengelig:

For å abonnere på noen av disse listene, send en e-post med ordet «subscribe» i emnefeltet til <listenavn>-request, hvor <listenavn> er en av listenavnene over. Alternativt kan du abonnere på Fedoras e-postlister gjennom web-grensesnittet på http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/.

The Fedora Project also uses several IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channels. IRC is a real-time, text-based form of communication, similar to Instant Messaging. With it, you may have conversations with multiple people in an open channel, or chat with someone privately one-on-one. To talk with other Fedora Project participants via IRC, access the Freenode IRC network. Refer to the Freenode website at http://www.freenode.net/ for more information.

Deltagere i Fedora Project holder ofte til i kanalen #fedora på Freenode-nettverket, mens utviklere ofte kan bli funnet i kanalen #fedora-devel. Noen av de større prosjektene kan ha deres egne kanaler også. Denne informasjonen kan bli funnet på prosjektets egne nettsider og på http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate.

In order to talk on the #fedora channel, you need to register your nickname, or nick. Instructions are given when you /join the channel.

[Note] IRC-kanaler

Fedora Project og Red Hat har ingen kontroll over IRC-kanalene og dets innhold til Fedora Project.

25. Kolofon

Slik som vi bruker termen, en kolofon:

  • anerkjenner bidragsytere og gir ansvarlighet, og

  • forklarer verktøy og produksjonsmetoder.

25.1. Bidragsytere

... og mange andre oversettere. Gå til nettsiden for siste versjon av disse utgivelsesnotatene, siden vi legger til oversettere etter utgivelsen:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/

25.2. Produksjonsmetoder

Beat writers produce the release notes directly on the Fedora Project Wiki. They collaborate with other subject matter experts during the test release phase of Fedora to explain important changes and enhancements. The editorial team ensures consistency and quality of the finished beats, and ports the Wiki material to DocBook XML in a revision control repository. At this point, the team of translators produces other language versions of the release notes, and then they become available to the general public as part of Fedora. The publication team also makes them, and subsequent errata, available via the Web.