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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has been replaced by a fork called cdrkit.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
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 '*'"