History (and Releases) Are Cyclical: This is Fedora 11!

by Kristin Shoemaker - Apr. 28, 2009Comments (2)

I've noticed, as I get older, time seems to go exponentially faster. Unfortunately, this meant high school lasted an eternity, and I'm burning through my thirties at warp speed. Some events make me more aware of this than others -- it seems like it was only last week that Fedora 10 made its first mark upon the world.

But no, another release cycle has nearly come full circle, and today the Fedora Project announced the Preview Release of Fedora 11 (codenamed Leonidas). This preview will be followed by a release candidate (scheduled for a May 12 appearance), with the final version hitting the streets on May 26.

So what new features can we expect to see in Fedora 11?

The Fedora Project is rolling out some impressive new features and functions with Leonidas. One of the most notable is the use of ext4 as the default file system (while many distributions are planning on making ext4 the default in the near future, some recent releases have chosen to keep it optional this time around). The Fedora team says that aside from ext4 performance enhancements, Leonidas users will be treated to faster boot and shutdown procedures, an automatic font, codec and clipart installer, and the DeviceKit device management tool designed to work with (and sometimes stand in for) hal. Fedora 11 users can also look forward to updated versions of the KDE, GNOME, and Xfce desktop environments, improvements in direct rendering, and better volume control and power management tools.

While the Leonidas Preview is well on its way to a final, stable form, it is still a testing release -- meaning, of course, that it shouldn't be used on production machines, and that those willing to give it a whirl are strongly encouraged to explore and push the new features hard to find any remaining bugs, and file (or help resolve) bug reports.


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Fedora 11 also comes with Intel,ATI,Nvidia Kernel modsetting. As i stated in one of my earlier reviews of fedora 10 (http://ostatic.com/fedora#comments)

KMS helps faster boot up and it's major shortcoming was lack of compatibility with large number of video cards. It's a good thing they corrected this in fedora 11,even for some extent.

another notable thing is fingerprint authentication in fedora 11. Instead of using fprint and its pam module, Users will register their fingerprint as part of the account creation process. They can easily log into the system by using this method just as they enter a password.

IBus-Input methods system has rewritten in C,But still it lacks some features.

also in fedora 11 they want to improve virtual guest console's screen resolution compared to 800x600 in fedora 10.

and last but not least,one of the features i like so much in fedora 11 is MinGW.

It's a development environment to fedora users who wants to cross compile programs to run in windows without having to use windows....Thank you fedora project!..what a relief.....


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The woes of being 'bleeding edge'! That is one of the mandates of the Fedora project! Release early and release often!


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