Fedora 7 released today

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Fedora 7 released today

by Dolores Parker May 31st 2007

Red Hat released Fedora 7 today, a new version of their Linux operating system developed in partnership with the open source community and Red Hat engineers. This is Fedora's first release to merge the Fedora Core and Fedora Extras package repositories under one set of packaging policies. Another first for Fedora 7 is all the software used is released under a free license, and all decision-making is made in public.

The big innovations touted for this release are:

Revisor tool - a graphical appliation built on top of Fedora's other build tools that gives flexibility to build an ISO, a live CD, etc. Mike Spevack, Fedora's project leader, feels this is Fedora's crown jewel. Customized versions of Fedora are now possible to an extent that was not available previously.

Live CD - first time for Fedora, (however not an industry shake-up here).

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology has been integrated with the Fedora graphical virtualization manager tool. KVM provides a full virtualization solution, and users have a choice between KVM and Xen, along with Qemu, in this release.

You can pick up a copy of this new version at the Fedora Project.
Thanks FF!

Tags: fedora, fedora 7, Fedora7, linux, live cd, LiveCd, red hat, RedHat

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Brandon said 1:51PM on 5-31-2007

But I just installed Ububntu! :(

Brandon said 1:51PM on 5-31-2007

-Ubuntu

julian said 4:17PM on 5-31-2007

haha me too,.... uhhh most open source should unite... maybe keep about 5 different versions

Calvin said 8:18PM on 5-31-2007

#1: Ubuntu
#2: Fedora
#3: OpenSuse

That's the word on the internet on how the distros line up. If they all worked together then we would see something a little more competitive.

wolliam said 10:12PM on 5-31-2007

downloading it.... i will test it tomorrow

http://clubvaio.blogspot.com/

mike said 3:08AM on 6-21-2007

guys help me. ive been trying to download fedora 7 but failed. can any one just send me the correct url?

tnx

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