Fedora 17 Beta

Fedora is the next generation Linux distribution from Red Hat.

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

Fedora 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.


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Update Boost to the upstream 1.46 release
· Creates appliances (virtual machines) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms
· On Dell and HP servers with multiple network ports on the motherboard, name the interfaces emX rather than ethX.
· Group of design-related software for easy installation
· Support for dynamic firewall management with DBus interface
· Support for ecryptfs in authconfig
· Make booting from disks with a 4kB sector size work on UEFI machines.
· Move to GCC 4.6.x
· Rebase to GDB 7.3
· Move to GNOME 3
· Browser plugin running java applets
· Predictive input method for indian language in ibus platform , suggests complete words based on partial input
· Rebase to KDE 4.6
· Enabling LZMA for compression to allow us ship more software on our live images
· Office productivity suite
· Java project management, project comprehension, and build tool
· OCaml 3.12 is a major new release of the OCaml language and compiler.
· Improved power monitoring and power profiling capabilities
· Updated Python 3 stack in Fedora from 3.1 to 3.2
· Replace setuid applications with File Capabilities in order to make them more secure
· Allow users to get better backtraces from their ABRT crashes by retracing coredumps remotely, on a server owned by Fedora Project
· Provide an out-of-the-box robotics development and simulation environment
· Update RPM to 4.9
· New currency symbol added for both input and output
· Update Ruby on Rails to 3.0.5
· Redesign setroubleshoot to bring back all possible solutions, and simplify descriptions.
· Ability to create, configure and display Spice-enabled VM from virt-manager
· Update to latest Sugar Learning Environment
· Update to latest Sugar Learning Environment
· General-purpose application platform and basis for an ERP system
· /var/run and /var/lock should be mounted as tmpfs
· New version of Xfce