Fedora Core is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites near you, and is also available in the torrent.

Fedora Core has expanded in this release to four binary ISO images and four source ISO images, and is available for both x86-64 and i386 and also PPC machines.

The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.

The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule.

The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux.

By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system that uses free software development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.

Here are some key features of "Fedora Core":

· KDE 3.5.4
· GNOME 2.16
· OpenOffice 2.0.4
· Kernel 2.6.17
· Xen
· ...and many more

What's New in This Release:

· This is the last test release before the development freeze and a great time to test all those packages that you know and love. Changes from Fedora 8 Test 2: Online Desktop provides a desktop experience designed around online services; package management now features much better performance via yum and friends; the completely free and open source Java environment called Iced Tea is installed by default; CodecBuddy is now included, and promotes free, superior quality, open formats to end users trying to play multimedia content under patent encumbered or proprietary formats; Eclipse 3.3 (Europa), a new release of the great IDE and development platform, is available as part of this release; NetworkManager 0.7 provides improved wireless network management support....