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Abstract

Important information about this release of Fedora

1. These Notes are Placeholders

2. Welcome to Fedora 10

2.1. Welcome to Fedora

2.1.1. Fedora 10 overview

2.2. Introduction to Fedora Project and technical release notes

2.3. Fedora Project

2.4. Feedback

2.4.1. Providing feedback on Fedora software
2.4.2. Providing feedback on release notes

3. What is New for Installation and Live Images

3.1. Installation notes

3.1.1. Installation media
3.1.2. Changes in Anaconda
3.1.3. Installation related issues
3.1.4. Upgrade related issues
3.1.5. Kickstart HTTP issue
3.1.6. Firstboot requires creation of non-root user

3.2. Fedora Live images

3.2.1. Available images
3.2.2. Usage information
3.2.3. Text mode installation
3.2.4. USB booting
3.2.5. Persistent home directory
3.2.6. Live USB persistence
3.2.7. Booting a Fedora Live image off of USB on Intel-based Apple hardware
3.2.8. Differences from a regular Fedora install

3.3. Hardware overview

3.3.1. Useful hardware information in these release notes
3.3.2. Hardware stance
3.3.3. What can you do?

3.4. Architecture specific notes

3.4.1. RPM multiarch support on 64-bit platforms - x86_64 and ppc64
3.4.2. x86 specifics for Fedora
3.4.3. x86_64 specifics for Fedora
3.4.4. PPC specifics for Fedora

3.5. X Window system - graphics

3.5.1. X Configuration Changes
3.5.2. Third-party Video Drivers
3.5.3. Resources

3.6. Fedora 10 boot-time

3.6.1. Plymouth
3.6.2. Faster booting
3.6.3. Kernel modesetting

4. Upfront About Multimedia

4.1. Multimedia

4.1.1. Multimedia players
4.1.2. Ogg and Xiph.Org foundation formats
4.1.3. MP3, DVD, and other excluded multimedia
4.1.4. CD and DVD authoring and burning
4.1.5. Screencasts
4.1.6. Extended support through plugins
4.1.7. Infrared remote support
4.1.8. Glitch-free PulseAudio

5. What is the Latest on the Desktop

5.1. Fedora desktop

5.1.1. Better webcam support
5.1.2. Plymouth graphical boot
5.1.3. Echo icon theme
5.1.4. Infrared remote support
5.1.5. Bluetooth BlueZ 4.0
5.1.6. GNOME
5.1.7. KDE
5.1.8. Sugar Desktop
5.1.9. Web browsers

5.2. Networking

5.2.1. Wireless Connection Sharing

5.3. Printing

5.4. Package notes

5.4.1. GIMP
5.4.2. Legal information

5.5. International language support

5.5.1. Language coverage
5.5.2. Fonts
5.5.3. Input Methods
5.5.4. Indic onscreen keyboard
5.5.5. Indic collation support

6. What is New for Gamers, Scientists, and Hobbyists

6.1. Games and entertainment

7. Power Users Get What Features and Fixes

7.1. Server tools

7.1.1. First Aid Kit

7.2. File systems

7.2.1. eCryptfs
7.2.2. EXT4
7.2.3. XFS

8. How are Things for Developers

8.1. Java

8.1.1. Best of breed free software Java implementation
8.1.2. Handling Java Applets and web start applications
8.1.3. New integration with other Fedora technologies
8.1.4. Fedora and JPackage
8.1.5. Note on upgrading from Fedora 8 - OpenJDK Replaces IcedTea

8.2. Development

8.2.1. Tools

8.3. Linux_kernel

8.3.1. Version
8.3.2. Changelog
8.3.3. Kernel flavors
8.3.4. Preparing for kernel development
8.3.5. Reporting bugs

8.4. Embedded

8.4.1. AVR
8.4.2. Microchip PIC
8.4.3. Others and processor agnostic

8.5. KDE 3 Development Platform and Libraries

9. What Do System Adminstrators Care About

9.1. Security

9.1.1. Security enhancements
9.1.2. SELinux
9.1.3. SELinux enhancements
9.1.4. Security audit package
9.1.5. General information

9.2. System Services

9.2.1. Upstart
9.2.2. NetworkManager
9.2.3. Autofs
9.2.4. Varnish

9.3. Virtualization

9.3.1. Unified kernel image
9.3.2. Virtualization storage management
9.3.3. Remote installation of virtual machines
9.3.4. Other improvements

9.4. Web servers

9.4.1. PostgreSQL DBD Driver
9.4.2. Drupal

9.5. Samba - Windows compatibility

9.6. Mail servers

9.6.1. Sendmail

9.7. File servers

9.8. Database servers

9.9. Backwards compatibility

9.9.1. Compiler compatibility
9.9.2. KDE 3 development

9.10. Updated packages in Fedora 10

9.11. Package changes

10. Are There Hideous Bugs and Terrible Tigers

11. Legal Stuff and Administrivia

11.1. Colophon

11.1.1. Contributors
11.1.2. Production methods

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