Hi
Now that the dust has settled down a bit, let me take a moment to
announce the release of Fedora 7 available at http://fedoraproject.org
What's New?
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-OverView.html
Short features list
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* Ability to remix Fedora or create custom appliaces.
* New GNOME 2.18 and KDE 3.5,6 based live images that can be installed
to hard disk or USB disk.
* 2.6.21 based kernel
* Extended Wireless network management. New 80211Mac (Devicescape)
network stack and wireless driver. Network Manager is enabled by default
in the Live images.
* Fast User Switching with console kit integration
* New desktop theme
* Comprehensive SELinux GUI config tool
* Automatic hotplugging display devices (X-server 1.3)
* Fedora Directory Server
* Tickless kernel for better power management)
* New Free and open source experimental 3D Nvidia driver
* Much faster Yum, Pirut, Pup
* KVM (Kernel Virtualization) (in addition to Xen and Qemu) with
installer and graphical management tool integration (virt-manager).
* Improved I18N support with SCIM
* Smolt hardware profiler
* New Firewire stack
* NTFS-3g and Liberation fonts which provide metric equivalents to key
Microsoft fonts for better interoperability
* Improved infrastructure via new build, updates system and mirror
management
Screenshots:
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http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=828&slide=4
Some References:
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/06/01/video-fedora-7-highlights/
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/31/remixing-fedora-7/
http://dot.kde.org/1180620522/
Rahul
