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The following sections contain information regarding software packages that have undergone significant changes for Fedora 7. For easier access, they are generally organized using the same groups that are shown in the installation system.
The PC speaker is enabled by default in this release, but can be circumvented in a number of ways:
Reduce its volume to an acceptable level or completely mute the PC speaker in
alsamixerwith the setting forPC Speak.As the
rootuser, disable the PC speaker system-wide by runing the following command in a console.su -c '/sbin/modprobe -r pcspkr ; echo "install pcspkr :" >>/etc/modprobe.conf'
Recent versions of cdrtools intermix code
under the GPL and CDDL licenses, which are mutually incompatible.
To avoid this problem, in this release cdrtools
has been replaced by a fork called cdrkit. Thanks to Joerg Jaspert
(<joerg AT debian.org>) from Debian for initiating
development of this software and reaching out to Fedora.
http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-August/msg00409.html
The default audio mode of the em8300 device support utilities
and kernel modules (em8300 and
kmod-em8300-* packages) has changed from OSS to
ALSA to follow upstream. However, numerous applications that
support the em8300 still expect to find it in OSS mode. Users of
these applications can use the audio_driver=oss
option for the em8300 module in
/etc/modprobe.conf to make the card use OSS
for audio.
The Gaim instant messenger has been renamed to Pidgin to avoid possible trademark infringement issues.
There have not been any major changes in the toolchain in Fedora 7. Therefore, some packages in Fedora 7 might retain ".fc6" in the release tag if they have been inherited from the previous release without any changes. Fedora maintainers have not rebuilt these packages for Fedora 7 to avoid making end users download the packages for only a release tag change. This measure ensures that the robustness is not affected by any potential changes evoked by rebuilds. This naming of packages is merely cosmetic, and does not in any way affect the functionality of the software.
Development related files have been split from Perl and are now available in the perl-devel package. As a temporary exception to the Fedora packaging guidelines, perl requires perl-devel to avoid rebuilding some perl dependent packages late in the development cycle. During the next release cycle of Fedora, maintainers will split up the rest of the dependent packages.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-April/msg00886.html
This release of Fedora includes Python 2.5, which does not support Zope. As a result, the zope and plone packages have been removed from this release. Work is underway to alleviate this problem for Zope 3, and possibly create a restricted Python 2.5 implementation of Zope 2. Refer to http://wiki.zope.org/zope3/Zope3UsingPython25 for additional information. Users who require the zope or plone packages are cautioned to plan appropriately, and use virtualized hosts or other methodologies to support their Zope and Plone needs.
The liferea RSS/RDF feed reader has a known issue compiled for x86_64 platforms. This issue causes it to take 100% of the CPU time, becoming unresponsive. As a workaround until the bug is found and fixed, remove the liferea.x86_64 package from your system, then install the i386 version. This package requires the firefox.i386 package as well. For more information, refer to this bug report:
If you use the Xfce desktop and click on a URL to open it in
your browser, the active browser window moves to your current
workspace. A hidden option named ActivateAction
adjusts this behavior. Set this string value to
bring (default), switch or
none. To add this option to your settings edit
your
~/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings/wmtweaks.xml
file and add a line like the following:
<option name="Xfwm/ActivateAction" type="string" value="none"/>
The bring option moves your browser to your
current workspace and focuses it. The switch
option moves you to the workspace with your browser in it and
focuses it. The none option opens the URL in
your browser in the background and keeps your focus in the current
application.
Refer to http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2961 for more information on this issue.
By default Fedora includes and enables a yum plugin package
yum-installonlyn. This plugin retains the
latest two kernels, including the one running, when you perform
updates on your system. To tune this feature to retain more or
fewer kernels, or disable it entirely, edit the
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf
file.
The apcupsd package has been upgraded to version 3.14.0. This version removes the old master/slave networking mode. Refer to the apcupsd release notes for more information.
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=54413&release_id=485633
This release includes packages that support a kernel feature, providing ATA access over Ethernet. The packages are aoetools, the ATA over Ethernet tools, and vblade, a virtual EtherDrive blade daemon.
The GIMP package in Fedora
includes a helper script
/usr/sbin/gimp-plugin-mgr for plugins
contained in other packages, for example,
xsane-gimp. This script manages symlinks from
the GIMP plugin directory (which may
change between upgrades) to the actual location of the
plugins.
A bug has been fixed in the Fedora 7 release of GIMP that was in all older GIMP packages, including all those in the test releases. The bug concerns the execution order in which the symlinks are installed and removed, causing the symlinks to vanish when the GIMP package is updated.
Although the GIMP package
contained in the final release has the execution order fixed,
due to the nature of the problem it will show up once more when
updating from an affected version to a fixed version. To add
these symlinks back in, run this command, providing the
root password when
prompted:
su -c "/usr/sbin/gimp-plugin-mgr --install '*'"