Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Fedora 12 (Open Source)


Fedora  is an RPM-based, general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
Fedora's HOMEPAGE: fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora
Fedora's TYPE: (Open source)
Fedora's DOWNLOAD: Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso(32 Bit Intel)
Manual Download
Fedora's RELEASE NOTES: Fedora 12
Fedora's SIZE: 654 MB
Fedora's GOOGLE HITS: 11.2 Millions +
One of Fedora's main objectives is not only to contain software distributed under a free and open source license, but also to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora developers prefer to make upstream changes instead of applying fixes specifically for Fedora—this ensures that their updates are available to all Linux distributions.According to Distrowatch, Fedora is the second most popular Linux-based operating system as of mid 2009, behind Ubuntu.Fedora 12, codenamed Constantine, was released on November 17, 2009.

Fedora 12 some features are :


  •  Optimized performance. All software packages on 32-bit (x86_32) architecture have been compiled for i686 systems
  •  Improved WebCam support
  •  Better video codec with a newer version of Ogg Theora
  •  Audio improvements
  •  Automatic bug reporting tool (abrt)
  •  Bluetooth on demand
  •  Enhanced NetworkManager to manage broadband
  •  Many virtualization enhancements (KVM, libvirt, libguestfs)
  •  ext4 used even for the boot partition
  •  Moblin interface
  •  Yum-presto plugin providing Delta RPMs for updates by default
  •  New compression algorithm (XZ, the new LZMA format) in RPM packages for smaller and faster updates
  •  Experimental 3D support for ATI R600/R700 cards
  •  GCC 4.4
  •  SystemTap 1.0 with Eclipse integration
  •  GNOME 2.28
  •  GNOME Shell preview
  •  KDE 4.3
  •  2.6.31 Linux kernel
  •  X server 1.7.1 with Multi-Pointer X (MPX) support
  •  NetBeans 6.7
  •  PHP 5.3
  •  Perl 6
  • ...........

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