Fedora 10 Final Release Available Today
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On Tuesday, at approximately 10 am Eastern (US), the Fedora Project will make its Fedora 10 ("Cambridge") final release available for general download.
This release has focused on delivering a number of improvements, including faster booting, smoother start up of the graphical server, ad hoc network sharing, remote virtual installs, and easier installation of GStreamer codecs from third party sources.
I took a look at a pre-release of Fedora 10 earlier this month. One of the most impressive changes was the one of the most controversial -- the migration of the X server from VT7 to VT1. The graphical server started faster, but it was how smoothly it launched that was the showstopper.
Fedora recently estimated its total number of users to be at least 9.5 million, and possibly as many as 10.5 million. In comparison, Ubuntu has estimated its number of users at around 8 million. The key word (in both cases) is "estimated." It's difficult to collect accurate information on the number of users and user demographics, and each project does so a bit differently.
Recently Linux Format spoke with former Fedora Project leader (and current manager of the community architecture team) Max Spevack. It's an interesting interview for Fedora (and Red Hat) users, with great explanations of how Fedora and Red Hat releases relate to and complement each other.
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