Fedora 11 arrives
The much-anticipated release from the Red Hat-backed community team promises to be one of the best Linux releases to date with Fedora’s reputation for making Linux as easy as possible increasing with each new release.
On the desktop Fedora includes Gnome 2.26 and KDE 4.2 based on a 2.6.29.3 kernel. Underneath the team has decided to make ext4 the default filesystem.
With most operating systems targeting faster boot-up times Fedora is no exception and users can expect a 20 second boot up from the new release on most hardware.
Another feature in Fedora 11 aimed at improving usability include automatic font and mime-type installation using PackageKit. PackageKit was first introduced in Fedora 9 to manage software and in Fedora 10 it was able to automatically install codecs on demand. In Fedora 11 those capabilities have been improved and PackageKit can now automatically install fonts when needed for viewing and editing documents.
Fedora 11 also extends Fedora’s kernel modesetting (KMS) capabilities to improve graphical boot times. In previous releases KMS only supported some ATI cards. In Fedora 11 KMS now supports a range of additional cards including many from Intel and Nvidia as well as ATI.
Presto
In an effort to streamline software updates, Fedora 11 introduces Presto. Although not enabled by default in this release (it needs the yum-presto plugin) Presto reduces the amount of data that needs to be downloaded during software updates. Instead of replacing an entire package when it is updated Presto downloads just the differences between the old and new package, reducing downloads by up to 80% in some cases.
The release notes include detailed information on the changes included in Fedora 11. A full list of features included in Fedora 11 is also available. Downloads of Fedora 10 can be found here.
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