“The Fedora 11 release showcases a feature set that shows the strength and diversity of Fedora contributors’ interests in the evolution of open source,” said Paul Frields, Fedora project leader at Red Hat. “We've built several of the major features on the foundations established in previous releases, showing that the open-source development model can provide a compelling mixture of steady advancement and rapid innovation.”
The Fedora Project aims to release a new complete, general-purpose, no-cost operating system approximately every six months. The development cycle is purposely restricted to six months to encourage rapid innovation and collaboration between thousands of Fedora project contributors worldwide. Fedora now has almost 29,000 project members, community officials said.
According to a Fedora Team blog on Red Hat's site, Fedora 11, code-named "Leonidas," contains the broadest set of features yet for a Fedora release, including:
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New fingerprint reader support that makes biometric support easy and well-integrated
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Automatic font and mimetype installation that downloads support as needed for foreign-language documents and other content types
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New IBus input method system that makes it easy to switch locales without having to restart a session
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Improved kernel mode-setting features for more video cards, including many models of Intel, ATI and NVidia
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Support for the latest file systems like ext4, with much higher device and file size limits, and faster consistency checking
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Improved virtualization features such as a more flexible and interactive console, and a rewritten VM creation wizard
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MinGW cross-compiler tool set for creating Windows executables using the Fedora distribution
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