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Red Hat, community release Fedora 10 alpha
Red Hat and project contributors have released alpha code for Fedora 10, the next version of the community-sponsored, free and open-source Linux distribution that will include enhancements to the audio, security and wireless-connection features of the OS.
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Red Hat explained new features of the Fedora 10 alpha release in a blog entry Tuesday. The test release can also be downloaded from the Fedora site.
Fedora is a Red Hat- and community-supported Linux OS that serves as the source code for Red Hat's Enterprise Linux (RHEL), as well as other Linux distributions.
The Fedora team plans to release final code for Fedora 10 in November. The company released the previous version, Fedora 9, last May.
Enhancements to Fedora 10 that developers can test-drive in the alpha release include the addition of timer-based scheduling for the PulseAudio stack of the OS, which serves audio from multiple sources on the server to multiple client destinations simultaneously, said Paul Frields, Fedora project leader, via e-mail.
Timer-based scheduling "is a techno-geeky way to say, 'flexible, glitch-free audio," he said. "The redesigned PulseAudio automatically adjusts the way it feeds audio data, to accommodate system load and ensure the audio data is always ready when needed."
This is in contrast to the older version of PulseAudio, which used "interrupt-based scheduling," which Frields described as a "somewhat one-size-fits-all design that was not nearly as flexible." In the old system, "the way audio data flowed could be affected to a much greater degree by particular hardware devices or audio software applications," he said.
Fedora 10 also will feature a new security-auditing and intrusion-detection system called SecTool that includes both text and graphical front ends, according to the blog post.
The framework "allows the administrator of a system to use either a command line or a graphical interface to select any of a number of different tests that detect misconfigurations or anomalies on a given system," Frields said.
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