Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge's foundations are laid
Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease
There is also a Beta contest! Test five things in the Beta that are important to you as a user. If you find a bug *and* report it, you get the free attention of a package maintainer on a problem personally important to you!
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide
Do your part to make Fedora 10 that much better.
Among the new, fun, and interesting features:
- New NetworkManager with connection sharing
- Improved printer handling
- Remote virtualization and easier virt storage
- Sectool, an auditing and security testing framework
- RPM 4.6, the first big RPM change in several years
... and more ...
- New version of PackageKit for managing software, with more fixes and enhancements (which benefits all distributions)
- New version of PulseAudio (which benefits all distributions)
- Kernel 2.6.27, including better support for WiFi
- Better support for the EFI for Apple Macintosh hardware
- Faster graphical start-up by Plymouth, replacing the venerable RHGB
- Better support for webcams through the hard work in kernel 2.6.27 (which benefits all distributions)
- New icon theme "Echo", to be completed with the theme graphic "Solar" in the Fedora 10 release
- Gnome 2.24
- KDE 4.1
- Adding the NetBeans IDE
- Eclipse 3.4
- Automatic installation of multimedia codecs
- Better HDTV support in X.org
- "Sugar" graphical environment (from OLPC) available for use, testing, and development
A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList
For release information, including common and known bugs, please see our release notes: