THIS IS FEDORA: Fedora 11 Released
Fedora 11 aka Leonidas has been released. Whilst the front page is yet to be updated the mirrors are being updated as I write and ISO’s are being propogated.
Download ISO:
In Australia? Try the local mirrors:
- Internode Mirror
- iinet Mirror (currently showing access denied)
- aarnet Mirror (still not active)
Bit of a torrenter? See the Torrent Tracker page.
Approximate sizes (from internode):
Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso 688M Fedora-11-i686-Live-KDE.iso 686M Fedora-11-x86_64-Live.iso 691M Fedora-11-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso 693M
See the Fedora 11 Release Notes for more information about changes in this release, the Fedora 11 feature list or the Unoffficial Fedora 11 Guide.
I’ve been awaiting this release primarily for the Linux Kernel v2.6.29 (in comparison to Jaunty‘s Kernel 2.6.28) which brings a slew of updates to the table – in particular KMS (Kernel mode setting – flicker free graphics), the inclusion of Btrfs in the kernel for preliminary testing and better memory mangement. Ofcourse Fedora 11 ships with X.org 1.6 as well. With the inclusion of GCC 4.4 all packages are now compiled with gcc4.4 too.
I’ve only dabbled in Fedora 10, but I think its a worthy move from my primarily Ubuntu lifestyle.
Whats really interesting though, is that Ubuntu 9.10 seems to have a decent performance bump, so whilst the wait for Fedora 11 is over, its time to get excited about the snappier the Karmic Koala.
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