The Most Awesome But Least-Advertised F17 Feature

Lennart Poettering, the Red Hat developer responsible for systemd, PulseAudio, and other open-source work, has shared what he calls the most awesome but least advertised feature of Fedora 17.

Fedora 17, the Beefy Miracle, has a tasty platter of new features. Among the new F17 features are lots of bleeding-edge patches (e.g. GIMP 2.8 and GCC 4.7), better multi-touch support, DRI2-only drivers, virtualization improvements, and much more. Fedora 17 is looking to be an extremely exciting release from the Red Hat camp and should be officially released around late May (the frequency of Fedora delays for engineering reasons always puts the final date up in the air).

So what does Lennart consider to be the most awesome but least advertised feature of this Fedora release? He mentions it on his blog, but it comes down to the multi-seat improvements for the Beefy Miracle.

Just yesterday I wrote about Making A Easy-To-Setup $50 Linux Multi-Seat Computer using the Plugable Multi-Seat Terminal. Lennart also mentions Plugable and that they've been supporting his systemd multi-seat-related efforts and that they have a Kickstarter drive going on for these $50 devices that makes adding a new seat to any Fedora computer become trivial. In Lennart's blog post he goes over these F17 multi-seat improvements in greater technical detail.