Fedora Core 6 Preview
GNOME 2.16.... Need we say more? The road to GNOME 2.16 is certainly shaping up quite nicely, and we have been pleased by the GNOME 2.15 development releases thus far. Some of the changes to look forward to in GNOME 2.16 include GTK+ 2.10, Cairo 1.2 themes, integrated power management support, and new widgets (including notification and printing widgets). Also coming for GNOME is support for compositing, alpha blending, drop shadows, window transparency, and more.
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On the K side of things, Fedora Core 6 Test 1 ships with KDE version 3.5.3. Yes, KDE continues to be bundled in Fedora Core 6 contrary to belief that it may move to being community managed, and/or moved into the Extras project. As was also noted in our interview with Mr. DeKoenigsberg, they are still working on ways for allowing more community management of the K Desktop Environment within Fedora. The first technical preview of KDE 4.0 is not expected until October of this year, and there remains no tentative date for when the final release will be out.
Another feature mentioned in the FC6T1 announcement was the scim-bridge implementation for improved il8n input. The version of scim-bridge shipping with FC6T1 is 0.1.12-3. Some of the other items in the Fedora Wiki for Core 6 include trimming down the Core, replacing sysklogd with syslog-ng, use early log-in and get rid of rhgb, sound server replacement, better firewall configuration utility, home user backup, support Fedora Extras and custom repositories during the installation, CD image generation tool, encrypted file systems, and more. As the Fedora Core 6 cycle begins to heat up, we will be sure to pass along more information. Already available for Fedora Core 6 are over 1600+ packages in the Extras repository. Feel free to discuss Fedora Core in our new Phoronix Forums.
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