Fedora 10 Expected Features

Here are the complete list of the accepted features that were approved and currently being worked out with the future Fedora 10 release. These features have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

% Name Summary Updated
Complete


A web application that allows users
Application to browse and search for
75% Installer applications, and then install the 2008-08-06
packages required for an application
using PackageKit/yum
Tools and meta-data that make it
80% Appliance Tools easier for anyone (ISVs, developers, 2008-08-07
OEMS, etc) to create and deploy
virtual appliances
Artistic 1.0 Remove all packages licensed under
75% License Removal only the Artistic 1.0 license before 2008-07-20
Fedora 10
100% Better Printing Improve management and handling of 2008-08-08
printers
Better Remote Make it easier to connect to remote
70% Support controls and have them just work with 2008-07-28
many applications.
53% Better Startup Stream line graphical start up 2008-07-31
60% Better Webcam Improved webcam support 2008-07-26
Support
100% Connection Enable adhoc network sharing 2008-08-08
Sharing
53% Echo Icon Theme Make the Echo Icon theme the default 2008-09-01
for Fedora 10
90 % Eclipse 3.4 Rebase Eclipse to version 3.4 2008-08-06
85% EFI Add new UEFI functionality to Fedora 2008-09-02
100% Evdev Input Evdev is being used as the default 2008-09-01
Driver input driver for X.Org.
60% Faster Startup Descrease the amount of time it takes 2008-08-07
to start and stop fedora
First Aid Kit is an automated
95 % First Aid Kit recovery tool that brings together 2008-07-20
common recovery processes and applies
them to a system
80% Glitch Free Rewrite the PulseAudio sound server 2008-07-16
Audio to use timer-based audio scheduling
40% Gnome 2.24 Re-base Fedora to Gnome 2.24 2008-08-06
Provide good support for Haskell
25% Haskell Support development and use, with a high 2008-06-03
number of quality libraries and tools
available
30% HDTV The X server in Fedora 10 has been 2008-08-14
Enhancements enhanced to support HDTVs better
Kernel Modes Move graphic mode initialization from
35% Setting for the X server's DDX drivers to the 2008-08-08
Graphics kernel
85% LXDE Desktop Make the LXDE lightweight X11 desktop 2008-09-02
environment available in Fedora
87% NetBeans IDE Add the NetBeans IDE to Fedora 2008-08-17
Provides applications with
60% On-line Account credentials for user's online 2008-08-14
Service accounts listed on online.gnome.org
or stored in GConf.
10% OpenChange Natively access Microsoft Exchange 2008-07-01
using OpenChange
Python NSS Include a newly developed package
100% Bindings which provides python bindings for 2008-07-09
NSS
75% Remote Virtual Enable the creation of virtual 2008-08-11
Install machines on remote hosts
80% RPM 4.6 Update RPM to 4.6 2008-07-10
80% Save to Auto create bugzilla entry with 2008-07-22
Bugzilla anaconda tracebacks
Add /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
40% Sbin Sanity to the PATH for normal users to 2008-08-06
simplify command-line administration
tasks
100% Security Audit A new security audit system and 2008-07-14
intrusion detection system
5% Sugar Desktop Include the Sugar Desktop (used in 2008-08-08
OLPC) in Fedora
50% Time Zone and Improve the handling of time zones 2008-08-13
Location and locations
Make storage provisioning over
90% Virtual Storage libvirt connections (local and 2008-08-11
remote) virtual machines as simple as
possible.

Source: Fedora Project