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Fedora Core 6 will be released in 2 weeks (11 october). I wanted to see what the new FC has to offer. The Fedora Core 6 Tour and the Fedora Core 6 Release Summary give some information about the upcoming FC release.

The video and slideshow on the Fedora Core 6 Tour page showed mainly the installation process, which hasn’t changed much. But I noticed they added, at least, 2 features. The first one is the ability to choose where you want to install from (cd, http, …), the other feature will let you add repositories during the installation.
I saw the first one somewhere on the video, but can’t find it anymore.

Watching the screenshots and video’s showed the new grub-bootscreen, login-screen and default background. It is now mainly black (a bit too dark, but that’s only my opinion) with the fedora logo on the right side. This time the logo is caught in a DNA string.

The performance of the package installation is improved and they added an applet which notifies you when new updates are available (This was already available in Ubuntu, it’s nice to have it now in FC).
The imap support in evolution is improved, maybe it’s time to take another look at evolution… if they also improved the calendering part.
They say something about AIGLX framework and compriz and Xorg7.1. I, at least, hope my laptop-screen can be shown on a beamer without any problems and can use dual head. I also hope the wobbly effect will be possible, but with the current specification I don’t know if it will be possible with a standard install.

The Virtual Machine Manager is also in the list of new packages. This seems a very nice tool to maintain Xen images. With this tool it is possible to install a virtual machine from a cd, it is also possible to whatch the screen through an embedded vnc-client. In the overview of you virtual machines you can see the resources used for every instance.

This is only a limited list of new features in Fedora. There are more items listed on the fedora wiki and I guess even that list won’t be complete. We just have to wait and see what has changed.

Kris has posted his top 10 here is mine…

[johan@raskas ~]$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10
    248 ls
    189 cd
     88 cvs
     71 rm
     55 ssh
     54 ll
     41 vi
     30 host
     27 cp
     24 scp

All basic commands nothing special. But my ‘ls’ habit shows up.
Every time I open a console I type ‘ls’ sometimes multiple times, or if I don’t know what I was doing I just type ‘ls’.
But it seems I’m not the only one with that habit.

Now for the root-user

[root@raskas ~]# history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10
    227 ls
    209 cd
     96 vi
     66 ll
     49 minicom
     37 /etc/init.d/network
     21 exit
     20 cat
     17 yum
     17 scp

Here are 2 “strange” things.
The first is the minicom, I don’t really use it much. But when you have the only laptop with a serial connector at the office …. (I guess this is from a couple of weeks ago when there where some cisco-switch-problems)
The /etc/init.d/network stuff is obvious… when I leave the office I suspend my laptop, I resume at home within an other network so a restart of the network is required.