[olug] Announcing Fedora 11 (fwd)

[Rob Townley]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Jon Larsen<relayer at levania.org> wrote:
> Fedora 11 is out.
> Jon L.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:16:34 -0400
> From: Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> To: fedora-announce-list <fedora-announce-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Announcing Fedora 11
>
> Ladies and gentlemen of the Royal Explorers Club! Your attention
> please. It falls to me to be the host of our proceedings to-day, as we
> celebrate a great achievement in the annals of this hallowed
> organization -- the discovery of what is truly a magnificent specimen
> among all FOSSdom. When Dr. Brattlesworth and I began this safari more
> than six months ago, we knew full well the many snares, toils, and
> dangers that awaited us along the hundreds of miles of tracking our
> quarry across the plains. But we also maintained a steadfast belief
> that by living with the land, and becoming part of the larger
> ecosystem where this incredible animal takes refuge, we could record
> for posterity the way of life of that marvelous creature -- the
> Leonidas!
>
> What's that? Oh, yes, dear me, the slides. I know you didn't come all
> this way to hear my prattle, so let's say we, ah, get right down to
> brass tacks as it were! Ho-ho! Yes, here we can see an exquisite scene
> of the beast at repose, secure in his den, thanks to the mandatory
> access control enhancements, which the astute among you will know
> better as "SELinux", to his virtualization systems. Upon closer
> inspection of his habitat we reveal further improvements to his
> virtualization lair, including the merging of KVM and QEMU, stronger
> VNC authentication for guests and a much enhanced
> virt-manager. Finally, we were able to determine, as you'll see in
> this slide, that our crafty king of beasts has secured his lair using
> the protection of integrated fingerprint authentication and DNSSEC.
>
> Next slide please, Dr. Brattlesworth -- Here, we find the quadruped
> leaping to action in a flash with its 20-second startup -- and do
> observe the animal's graceful form, achieved through kernel mode
> setting and Plymouth. We discovered, upon further examination, that
> the Leonidas maintains his sleek figure through the help of his new
> Presto feature, which allows him to keep his bandwidth trim while
> digesting updates that keep him healthy and content. By this point,
> Dr. Brattlesworth was positively ecstatic about our discovery, and I
> had to calm the poor chap down with some of the local fire-water. That
> was a rum morning, wasn't it, my dear fellow? Ha ha!
>
> Oh, balderdash, where was I? Ah yes, next slide. Here we see a diagram
> of the cranial capacity of the average member of his species, compared
> with that of our subject the Leonidas. Through a form of advanced
> evolution to which Dr. Brattlesworth and I refer as "Free and Open
> Source Software Development Methods," he has developed the
> sophisticated abilities to comprehend code using GCC 4.4, Python 2.6
> and NetBeans 6.5, and to patrol a much larger area of space quickly,
> using his support for the Ext4 file system
>
> Ah, my favorite slide is next! Here we see the Leonidas at the end of
> a day as the full moon rises above the plain, safe and sound with his
> new more understandable and flexible volume control. Oh-ho! Perhaps
> those among you not asleep in your easy chairs by the fire, or
> otherwise engaged in deep conversation, sparked no doubt by our
> fascinating presentation, saw my little play at sonic humour. *ahem*
> Yes, well.
>
> So now that you have seen the results of our intrepid safari into the
> land inhabited by the Leonidas -- truly a worthy quarry, and a wonder
> for us to behold, which we are proud to share with you, our
> colleagues, as always. I hope that you, like I -- and I trust my dear
> fellow adventurer Dr. Brattlesworth -- are already eager to return to
> the veldt and witness the next stage of growth of this superlative
> creature. Do enjoy your handouts, which are all provided on this
> marvelous new invention called the 'live compact-disc,' and which you
> may feel absolutely confident in passing on to your many associates
> and other curious passers-by.
>
> Let us adjourn now to the smoking room for our brandy and cigars!
>
> * * *
>
> Get your copy of Fedora 11 today: http://get.fedoraproject.org/
>
> For complete details of all the new features:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/index.html
>
> * * *
>
> If you need assistance with installing Fedora, please check out our
> Installation Guide at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/
>
> Join the many thousands of Fedora participants and contributors:
> http://join.fedoraproject.org/
>
> If you missed the official launch, attend a Fedora 11 Release Party
> near you: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty
>
>
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