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Fedora 8 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hot-off-the-presses dept.

Cat in the Hat writes "Fedora 8 has been officially released. Ars Technica has a run-down of what's new in Fedora 8, including the PulseAudio sound daemon, Nodoka visual style, and a new authentication system. 'Another major change in Fedora 8 is the new PolicyKit authentication system that makes authority escalation more secure. Instead of providing root access to an entire program when it needs higher privileges, PolicyKit makes it possible to isolate individual operations that require higher privileges and put them into system services that can be accessed through D-Bus. Another advantage of PolicyKit is that it will give administrators more control over which users and programs have access to individual operations that use escalated privileges.'"

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  1. Fedora 8 release summary and announcements by spevack · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are a few "official" links that people might find useful:

    Release Summary -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary

    Release Notes -- http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/

    Fedora Project Leader's release announcement -- http://lwn.net/Articles/257644/

    And of course the downloads at http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

  2. Fedora 8 running on USB keys by spevack · · Score: 4, Informative

    Red Hat Magazine posted a HOWTO explaining Fedora 8 booting from a USB key.

    It is one of the more interesting features in Fedora -- users can build their own customized spin of the distro, and then run it on a USB key. Totally custom and portable.

  3. Re:Yet ANOTHER sound server? by Rayban · · Score: 4, Informative

    PulseAudio emulates all the other systems with LD_PRELOAD libs so that they are all PulseAudio-aware. This means that your 1998 softphone that uses exclusive open() on /dev/dsp will function, with the magical policy of PulseAudio.

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    æeee!