Among the new, fun, and interesting features:
- New NetworkManager with connection sharing
- Improved printer handling
- Remote virtualization and easier virt storage
- Sectool, an auditing and security testing framework
- RPM 4.6, the first big RPM change in several years
- New version of PackageKit for managing software, with more fixes and enhancements (which benefits all distributions)
- New version of PulseAudio (which benefits all distributions)
- Kernel 2.6.27, including better support for WiFi
- Better support for the EFI for Apple Macintosh hardware
- Faster graphical start-up by Plymouth, replacing the venerable RHGB
- Better support for webcams through the hard work in kernel 2.6.27 (which benefits all distributions)
- New icon theme "Echo", to be completed with the theme graphic "Solar" in the Fedora 10 release
- Gnome 2.24
- KDE 4.1
- Adding the NetBeans IDE
- Eclipse 3.4
- Automatic installation of multimedia codecs
- Better HDTV support in X.org
- "Sugar" graphical environment (from OLPC) available for use, testing, and development
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