The Fedora community has Tuesday after nearly a half year a new version of the eponymous open-source operating system released. Fedora Verne has the latest software packages, including the desktop environment Gnome 3.2.
The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora project gives ‘Verne’ update to the new Linux kernel 3.1. It is also the most recent GRUB boot loader included. In addition, the developers have to say goodbye to the Hardware Abstraction Layar, abbreviated as HAL.
The default desktop environment of Fedora is Gnome 3.2, that at the end of september was released and that for some old and new users can be confusing, said Tweakers.net in this week’s published review of the distro. One of the main innovations is the close integration with cloud services like Google Docs. Also, the appearance of the login screen. Fedora makes as with previous versions, in particular the use of standard Gnome applications. So are the latest editions of the program’s Evolution and the music player Rhythmbox is included. Also, Fedora’s Firefox 7 on board. The browser would be considerably faster to operate than previous versions, thanks to improved memory management.
In addition to Gnome, with so-called Fedora Spins also be chosen for alternative expenditure with other desktop environments such as KDE and Xfce. With KDE 4.7.3 has the alternative to release about all of the recent updates to the Plasma Workspaces, the underlying KDE Platform and various applications. So is version 2.4.3 of music player, Amarok included. Amarok has a new interface and would thus significantly more stable. In addition, it offers KDE, with KDE Personal Information Management Suite 4.7 a own e-mail client and calendar function.
Administrators will appreciate that there is now support for OpenStack. With the project, which is supported by multinationals like AMD, Intel, Cisco and HP, system administrators iaas services. So with OpenStack a virtual machine to another server to be moved while it is still running. Also, images in raw format are stored, from the server to be loaded.