[orca-list] Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora 20.

["D. A. H." <dhunt freedommail co>]

I tried the last Beta, and noticed a dialogue about problems with 
speech-dispatcher, but the system kept on talking.  A reliable source 
tells me this still happens.  Anyway, here is the official release 
announcement; read all about it, and download if you desire.  The main 
live download has the GNOME 3.10 desktop and many useful apps, with more 
in the standard and add-on repositories.  Espeakup might be in the 
repos, but is not included on the live system.  Once the live system is 
running, you should be able to use 'alt+super+s' to start orca.  As has 
been discussed elsewhere in this list, the orca keystrokes, such as 
'orca+space' for preferences, will not work, until a window has focus. 
The opening "welcome to Fedora" dialogue should work for this purpose.




Enjoy,



Dave  H.








-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Announcing the release of Fedora 20.
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:02:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Robyn Bergeron <rbergero redhat com>
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To: announce lists fedoraproject org, devel-announce 
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Greetings!

We can say with great certainty the Fedora Project is pleased to 
announce the release of Fedora 20 ("Heisenbug"), which coincides with 
the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Fedora Project.

Download this leading-edge, free and open source operating system now:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

Detailed information about this release can be seen in the release notes:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/index.html

*** Dedicated to Seth Vidal ***

On July 8, the Fedora Project lost Seth Vidal, a dedicated, tireless, 
and brilliant contributor. Seth was a lead developer of Yum and the 
Fedora update repository system. He worked to ensure that the technical 
and community infrastructure of Fedora worked well and consistently for 
users and contributors around the world. Seth touched the lives of 
hundreds of Fedora contributors directly and millions of others 
indirectly by improving the experience of using and updating Fedora.

The Fedora Project dedicates the Fedora 20 release to Seth and asks that 
you join us in remembering his generous spirit and incredible work that 
helped make Fedora what it is today. We miss you, Seth.

*** 10 Years of Fedora ***

The Fedora 20 release coincides with Fedora's tenth anniversary. The 
first Fedora release (then called Fedora Core 1) came out on November 6, 
2003. The Fedora Project community has grown into an active and vibrant 
one that produces a new version of this leading-edge, free and open 
source operating system around every six months.

*** Desktop Environments and Spins ***

The Fedora Project strives to provide the best desktop experiences 
possible for users, from desktop environment to application selection. 
We also produce  nearly a dozen spins tailor-made for desktop users, 
hardware design, gaming, musicians, artists, and early classroom 
environments.

Spins are available for download here: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Spins

== GNOME 3.10 ==

Fedora 20 comes with GNOME 3.10, which has several new applications and 
features that will please GNOME-lovers. This release includes a new 
music application (gnome-music), a new maps application (gnome-maps), a 
revamp for the system status menu, and Zimbra support in Evolution.

== KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11 ==

The Fedora KDE SIG has rebased to KDE 4.11 for Fedora 20. This release 
includes faster Nepomuk indexing, improvements to Kontact, KScreen 
integration in KWin, Metalink/HTTP support for KGet, and much more.

== Spins ==

Spins are alternate versions of Fedora.  In addition to various desktop 
environments for Fedora, spins are also available as tailored 
environments for various types of users via hand-picked application sets 
or customizations.

See all of the Fedora 20 Release Spins here: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Spins

*** ARM as a Primary Architecture ***

While Fedora has supported a number of hardware architectures over the 
years, x86/x86_64 has been the default for the majority of Fedora users 
and for the Linux community in general.

ARM, however, has been making massive strides. It already dominates the 
mobile market, is becoming a go-to platform for hobbyists and makers, 
and is showing enormous promise for the server market as well.

In keeping with Fedora's commitment to innovation, the Fedora community 
has been pushing to make ARM a primary architecture to satisfy the needs 
of users and developers targeting the ARM platform.

*** Cloud and Virtualization Improvements ***

The Fedora 20 release continues the Fedora tradition of adopting and 
integrating leading edge technologies used in cloud computing. This 
release includes features that will make working with virtualization and 
cloud computing much easier.

== First-Class Cloud Images ==

The Fedora Cloud SIG has been working hard to provide images that are 
well-suited for running as guests in public and private clouds like 
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenStack.

If you're using public or private cloud, you should grab one of the 
downloadable Cloud Images or find a supported EC2 image, here:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#clouds

== VM Snapshot UI with virt-manager ==

Taking VM snapshots is now much easier. Though qemu and libvirt have all 
the major pieces in place for performing safe VM snapshots/checkpoints, 
there isn't any simple, discoverable UI. This feature will track adding 
that UI to virt-manager and any other virt stack bits that need to be 
fixed/improved, including adding functionality to libvirt to support 
deleting and rebasing to external snapshots.

== ARM on x86 with libvirt/virt-manager ==

You can now run ARM VMs on x86 hosts using standard libvirt tools: 
libvirt virsh, virt-manager and virt-install.

*** Big Data ***

The Fedora 20 release includes all the packages you need to run Apache 
Hadoop 2.2.0. Hadoop is a widely used, increasingly complete big data 
platform with a strong, growing community and ecosystem. The Hadoop 
packages included with Fedora 20 will provide a foundation for immediate 
use of Hadoop and a base for the rest of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.

*** Developer Goodness ***

As always, Fedora 20 includes new features and updated packages that 
will be of interest to all manner of developers.

== WildFly 8 ==

WildFly 8 is the next version of the application server previously known 
as JBoss Application Server. With WildFly 8, it's possible to run your 
Java EE 7 applications with unparalleled speed.

WildFly 8 boasts a optimized boot process that starts services 
concurrently to eliminate unnecessary waits and taps into the power of 
multi-core processors. At the same time, WildFly takes an aggressive 
approach to memory management and keeps its memory footprint 
exceptionally small compared to other JVMs.

== Ruby on Rails 4.0 ==

This update supports Ruby on Rails developers by providing 
system-packaged Ruby on Rails of the latest version. Apart from that, 
Rails 4.0 also brings improved functionality, speed, security, and 
better modularization.

*** Maturity and Advanced Features ***

Sometimes it's not the big, new features that make a user's experience 
better; it's the little enhancements or long-awaited tricky features 
that really help make a new release the bee's knees.

== NetworkManager Improvements ==

NetworkManager is getting several improvements in Fedora 20 that will be 
welcome additions for power users and system administrators.

Users will now be able to add, edit, delete, activate, and de-activate 
network connections via the nmcli command line tool, which will make 
life much easier for non-desktop uses of Fedora.

NetworkManager is also getting support for bonding interfaces and 
bridging interfaces. Bonding and bridging are used in many enterprise 
setups and are necessary for virtualization and fail-over scenarios.

== No Default Sendmail, Syslog ==

In the interests of paring down services that are generally not used on 
desktop systems, Fedora 20 removes and replaces some services that many 
users find unnecessary from the Live Desktop DVD. They will remain 
available as installable packages for users who might need them.

The systemd journal now takes the place as the default logging solution 
for minimal and other selected installation methods, such as the Live 
Desktop DVD, having been tested and able to manage persistent logging in 
place of syslog.

Also, Sendmail will no longer be installed by default, as most Fedora 
installs have no need of a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).

*** Even More Changes ***

Fedora prides itself on bringing cutting-edge technologies to users of 
open source software around the world, and this release continues that 
tradition. No matter what you do, Fedora 20 has the tools you need to 
help you get things done.

A complete list with details of each new change is available here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/ChangeSet

*** Documentation ***

Read the full release notes for Fedora 20, guides for several languages, 
and learn about known bugs and how to report new ones:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Fedora 20 common bugs are documented here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs

This page includes information on several known non-blocker bugs in 
Fedora 20; please be sure to read it before installing!

*** Contributing ***

We hope that you're excited to have Fedora 20 in your hands and are 
looking forward to using it and exploring its new features and many 
improvements over Fedora 19. But that's not all! Fedora never stands 
still, we're always working towards a new and better release and sharing 
our work with the world. Want to be part of the fun? It's easy to get 
involved!

There are many ways to contribute to Fedora, even if it's just bug 
reporting. You can also help translate software and content, test and 
give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design 
and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and 
package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To 
get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today!


Cheers,

-robyn
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