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New Desktop Features in Fedora 11. Of course, Fedora 11 includes the latest versions of a number of key software components including GNOME version 2.26, KDE version 4.2, and XFCE version 4.6. These are three different choices for GUI Desktop environments. Linux supports choice! But those are just numbers. GNOME 2.26 includes new applications, such as the Brasero CD/DVD burning application. Evolution, which is the default Personal Information Manager, can now import data directly from Microsoft Outlook. Media Players now use the Unifying Media Player Daemon. Volume is now integrated with the Pulse Audio Server. Multiple monitors are easy to configure for the same Desktop, and of course, there's lots more. Here's an example of the GNOME Desktop. Next, there's KDE. An example shown here, KDE, includes integration with the policy kit which supports finer-grained permissions. If you haven't used the KDE Desktop in a while, you'll see different things like a different kind of Desktop Menu. It also includes K-Office 1.6, which in my opinion, is a little bit of a disappointment as Fedora hasn't yet been able to include the K-Office 2 Suite. As for Desktop Office Suites, Fedora 11 includes version 3.1 of the Open Office.org Suite, which includes better note management, improved bibliographies, MySQL database integration, and lots more. As befits its status as a leading edge distribution, Fedora 11 also includes a beta of the Firefox Web Browser version 3.5. The final release is expected to be in Fedora Update repositories, once, of course, it's made available from the developers at the Mozilla Foundation. One more feature is that root logins to the GUI are disabled. That may not seem like a feature, but you can still login as a regular user and it reduces the risk of problems when you login as a root user. You can still access the root account in the GUI by opening up a Command Line and running the su command to assume the administrative account, or sudo to assume administrative privileges. There are far too many small improvements to the Desktop to mention here. For a fuller list, refer to this particular URL. Those are the high-level Desktop improvements included in Fedora 11.

Tutorial Information

Course: Fedora 11
Author: Michael Jang
SKU: 34031
ISBN: 1-935320-67-X
Release Date: 2009-09-16
Duration: 6 hrs / 86 lessons
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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