| 1. Connection Sharing Connection sharing allows to easily set up an ad-hoc wifi network on a machine with a network connection and a spare wireless card. If the machine has primary network connection (wired, 3G, second wireless card), routing is set up so that devices connected to the ad-hoc wifi network can share the connection to the outside network. 2. Glitch Free Audio The PulseAudio sound server has been rewritten to use timer-based audio scheduling instead of the traditional interrupt-driven approach. This is the approach that is taken by other systems such as Apples CoreAudio and the Windows Vista audio subsystem and has a number of advantages, not the least in reduced power consumption, minimization of drop-outs and flexible adjustment of the latency to the needs of the application.. 3. OpenChange Natively access Microsoft Exchange using OpenChange. By using the libmapi library from OpenChange, tools such as kdepim and Evolution can become first-class clients of a Microsoft Exchange Server. 4. Security Audit A new security too will be added to Fedora 10, called sectool. sectool is a security tool that can be used both as a security audit and an intrusion detection. It consists of set of tests, library and textual/graphical frontend. Tests are sorted into groups and security levels. Admins can run selected tests, groups or whole security levels. | 5. Better Webcam Support Currently many webcams do not work with Fedora out of the box even though Linux driver exist for them, the intent is to fix this.
6. Better Remote Support A new graphical frontend will be developed to make it easy to connect and configure Infra-Red remote controls. Users will be able to remotely control multimedia applications such as rhythmbox and totem with this feature. 7. RPM 4.6 The new major RPM version (after years) will add a lot of new feature, replacing the old RPM 4.4 8. Haskell Support Haskell is a growing programming language, Fedora 10 will have a better support for it, adding a lot of packages for the language itself and many softwares written in Haskell. 9. Artistic 1.0 License Removal This is not a feature as we classically think but it will bring a lot of polish in the license ecosystem removing all packages licensed only under the Artistic 1.0 license. |