[Dark Star]

Fedora 11 Leonidas Preview Released

This is the Fedora 11 Preview release, we're just a short time from releasing the full shebang. Therefore we need the most testing we can possibly get on this one. Major features: automatic font and mime-type installation; volume control with PulseAudio; Intel, ATI and NVIDIA kernel modsetting; fingerprint readers as an authentication mechanism; IBus input method system for Asian languages; ext4 file system; MinGW (Windows cross compiler

Highlights of Fedora 11 Alpha:

• Linux Kernel 2.6.29.2
• Windows Cross Compiler
• Ext4 File System
• Btrfs File System
• New Volume Control
• PackageKit Firmware Support
• GNOME 2.26.1
• KDE 4.2.2
• Xfce 4.6.1
• NetBeans 6.5
• Python 2.6
• Git 1.6.1.1
• Openoffice.org 3.1 Beta
  
  
  
  Image courtesy phoronix
  
  Download : http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist
  Release Schedule : http://www.techenclave.com/open-sour...ro-124174.html

Notes : https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg01631.html | http://docs.fedoraproject.org/releas...preview/en-US/

[vishalrao]

omg yet again fedora is on the cutting edge. and its also stable for the last couple of releases. ubuntu is risking being left in the dust and losing its number one spot in distro rankings...

[vishalrao]

Some blogs:

Fedora 11 Will Have An Incredible Number Of New Features California Quantum

Virtualisation goodness: Cole's hacking + music log: virt-manager in Fedora 11: 'New VM' wizard redesign

[krishnavamshi24]

Fedora they seem to be have fastest release cycle ...

[viridian]

Been running Fedora 10 for the past few months now waiting for 11. Annoying (but inconsequential) bug that keeps following me across every distro is that the screen flickers for a few seconds after the gnome logon prompt. I'm guessing it's an issue with the ancient 915 chipset on my laptop. Other than that, pretty smooth sailing. Been waiting to try out KDE 4.2 but I hear Fedora isn't the best way to do it.

Killer codename though. Leonidas: Ubuntu? This is FEDDDDDDDDORRRRRRRRA!.

It had to be said.

[prakashan]

when is fc11 going to be released?

[Dark Star]

^^ http://www.techenclave.com/open-sour...ro-124174.html

[Monalisa]

It includes a number of features and one of major feature is now it includes Ext4 as default filesystem

[Dark Star]

Nearly all the upcoming major distro includes Ext4

[prakashan]

Just installed fedora 10 after the last try with fedora9.with Ubuntu ,I am so settled that ,I almost finds fedora somewhat tough with package management.but the Blue Colour and Gnome attracts me.I am searching for 64-bit rpms specifically and these rpm things are now showing up as .noarch.rpm with quiet a few packages.that's sad.Debian Rocks when it comes to package management

[vishalrao]

if its blue you want try installing the "blubuntu" related packages in ubuntu or just select an existing blue them in appearances applet. i got bored of brown and went blue for a while, but now im on "dust sand" theme

[prakashan]

^Heck ,I already have Blubuntu ,using it before it was part of ubuntu(remember some guy created it hating the brown!)..somehow I like light blue colour more.. .my Ubuntu is slightly customized ,kind of like plain Debian.No brown - even when you log in(that can be done @ gdmsetup).

[vishalrao]

Fedora bloggers claim they are the most popular: Another 100,000+ week for Fedora 10 California Quantum

Anti Ubuntu rant: I hate Ubuntu | Kev009.com

[prakashan]

Rants for sure. Ubuntu is the most user-friendly distro as of now-and obviously top in numbers too.(yeah ,I have a fedora 10 install now).

[Dark Star]

^^I beg to differ.. Yes debian is good and ubuntu too.. But there are other distro much better than Ubuntu..

Its what money and advert.. making it popular