Fedora 7

Today is the release of the next version of the popular Linux distribution Fedora .

Beginning with this release, the word Core will be missing in the title, so please welcome Fedora 7.

What's new?

1. Kernel 2.6.21
2. Spins - a new method of positioning the distribution. Several spins will be available (Desktop, Server, LiveCD), each with a specific, specially sharpened set of programs.
3. Updated versions of GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5.6
4. Implemented fast user switching
5. Connecting input devices without stopping work, thanks to Xorg Server 1.3
6. The release includes a large number of firmware to support most wireless cards. In addition, NetworkManager provides a graphical interface that allows you to quickly switch between wired and wireless networks.
7. New default theme Flying High
8. Firefox 2 with spell checking, anti-phishing checking and restoring sessions
9. SELinux Graphic Administration Utility
10. FireWire stack integrated into the kernel
11. Improved power management system
12. Many dictionaries used by desktop applications are put together.
13. An experimental nouveau driver has been introduced, which is an open source implementation of 3D drivers for nVidia cards
14. Work to improve the speed of work yum, Pirut and Pup
15. Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is included in the release.
16. Henceforth, all disk partitions will be named / dev / sd *
17. The release includes Python 2.5 and all programs from the repositories use it
18. etc.

Details about the release can be found in the Fedora Release Notes .

Where to get?

• i386
• x86_64
• torrent files at the time of writing were still unavailable, and maybe just not found by the author, but in theory, should be there