Installation guide

Release Notes

10.4. nouveau Driver for NVIDIA Graphics Devices

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 features the new nouveau driver as default for NVIDIA graphics devices

up to and including the NVIDIA GeForce 200 series. nouveau supports 2D and software video

acceleration and kernel modesetting.

Note

The previous default driver for NVIDIA hardware (nv) is still available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

10.5. Internationalization

10.5.1. IBus

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 introduces the Intelligent Input Bus

(IBus) as the default input method

framework for Asian languages.

10.5.2. Choosing and Configuring Input Methods

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 includes im-chooser, a graphical user interface to enable and configure

input methods. im-chooser (located under System > Preferences > Input Method in the main

menu) allows the user to easily enable and configure the input methods available on the system.

10.5.3. Indic Onscreen Keyboard

The new Indic Onscreen Keyboard (iok) is a screen based virtual keyboard for Indic languages,

enabling input using Inscript keymap layouts and other 1:1 key mappings.

10.5.4. Indic Collation Support

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 includes improved sorting for Indic languages. The order of menus and

other interface elements are now correctly sorted in Indic languages.

10.5.5. Fonts

Font support in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has been improved, with updates to fonts for Chinese,

Japanese, Korean, Indic and Thai languages.

10.6. Applications

The majority of applications on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 desktop have been updated. The

following section documents the most notable updates.

10.6.1. Firefox

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 introduces version 3.5 of the Mozilla Firefox web browser.

For details on the new features in Firefox, refer to the Firefox Release Notes

http://code.google.com/p/ibus

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/releasenotes/