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Fedora 14 Well On Its Way to a Desktop Near You

Oct 07, 2010  By Susan Linton
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Fedora 14 Beta

Red Hat's Fedora remains one of the most popular and versatile Linux distributions available today. In fact, it has few equals. And Fedora 14, which is due for final release November 2, saw its one and only beta release on September 28 with some exciting feature previews. Being based on Linux 2.6.35, that was released on August 1 and received its latest stable update on September 29, it will offer goodies like Btrfs direct input/output, better power management, expanded video and Ethernet hardware support, and memory cache de-fragmentation. Of particular interest to Red Hat and Fedora developers and users are the improvements in KVM virtualization, which include enhancements of the timer and emulator code that result in higher performance as well as improvements in performance tracing and monitoring.

Speaking of virtualization, Fedora 14 will introduce SPICE to their users this release. SPICE is a tool for creating and interacting with virtual machines. It features encryption, accelerated 2D graphics, video and audio format detection and playback, hardware cursor support, and dynamic adaption to graphic and communication changes. For developers, this release will bring the Rakudo Star compiler and modules as well as the D programming language compiler and toolkit and several mainstay updates such as Perl 5.12, Python, Ruby, Eclipse, Netbeans, and Perl 6. Open SCAP is also featured this release, which will bring a standard for automated testing and identification of system vulnerabilities.

The average desktop user isn't left out either. This release will bring the newly released GNOME 2.32 and KDE 4.5.x with a lovely new theme, as well as the latest stable Sugar 0.90 and MeeGo 1.0 portable systems. libjpeg-turbo will bring faster compression and decompression of JPEG images than experienced with original libjpeg.

Live images are slated to be compressed with LZMA instead of Gzip this release, bringing almost a 9% reduction in size without a significant performance hit, and allowing Fedora developers to include more software. Multipath installation is rumored to be on the menu as well. systemd, planned for version 14, has been postponed until the next release to allow more time to fix bugs and polish functionality. So, this release will continue to use the Upstart initialization system, but systemd will still be available to those who wish to test it.

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Susan Linton is a Linux writer and the owner of tuxmachines.org.

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fedora 14 does not install on latest apple mac mini

David John Smith's picture
Submitted by David John Smith (not verified) on Sat, 10/23/2010 - 05:09.

Its a great distro - but it does not install on the latest apple mac mini

(ive tried many different fixes - if anyone has suceeded please get in touch thanks)

I need to try

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Submitted by martyrsoul_ on Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:56.

I can say is very beautiful and amazing.. mirc indir

Theme?

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:32.

A new background image doesn't constitute a theme.

typical

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:45.

World-[(ignorance+selfImportance)=you]=betterWorld

reply

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Submitted by thiago (not verified) on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 19:07.

"typical" - Good point, this kind of argument makes world really better.

"I also can't see any icons," - Actually, there is a link to the Artwork Theme Concepts, which give clues to the full theme and feel. I am very excited about Fedora 14, but the theme isn't exactly what calls my attention : )

Please, post the link to the

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 03:44.

Please, post the link to the Artwork Theme Concepts
I really can't see anything else but wallpapers. Thanks!

I also can't see any icons,

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/08/2010 - 21:28.

I also can't see any icons, windows decorations or widgets, just a wallpaper image (which I personally don't like but this is another matter). So I have to agree with the OP that it falls short of being a "lovely new theme". Of course I may have missed a link somewhere, in which case I would be very grateful if you could point me to the theme's screenshots page. Thanks!

# yum install preupgrade -y

AngelOA's picture
Submitted by AngelOA (not verified) on Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:00.

# yum install preupgrade -y && preupgrade

:-)

done :-D

Trox's picture
Submitted by Trox (not verified) on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 10:42.

done :-D

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