The Latest version of most popular Red Hat sponsored Linux distro, Fedora 17 was released.Fedora 17 includes support for hardware-accelerated 2D graphics, encryption and hardware cursor. 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 releaseschedule.Normal users and system administrators can enjoy several new features included in this Linux Os.
Key Features of “Fedora 17″
- Software rendering for GNOME Shell
- Mozilla Firefox 12
- GIMP 2.8
- Boost 1.48
- Improved NetworkManager
- Updated Eclipse to Juno
- Support for the D2 programming language
- Support for Automatic Seat and ConsoleKit removal
- Support for Lohit Unicode 6.0
- DRI2 3D drivers
- KDE Plasma dependency generation
- Added Thermostat
- Updated Cluster Stack to support Enhanced Failover
- Sugar 0.96
- SSSD-Sudo integration
- SSSD AutoFS integration
- Static analysis of Python reference counts
- Revamped LiveCD installation
- Improved and extended Power Management
- PHP 5.4
- OpenJDK 7 as the default Java Runtime Environment
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