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La release Alpha di Fedora 14, Laughlin, è ora disponibile! Vuoi conoscere le ultime novità presenti nel S.O. che offre le migliori tecnologie del futuro? Se vuoi scoprire il futuro, vai su

Fedora Pre-Release

Cos'è una release Alpha?

La release Alpha contiene tutte le feature presenti in Fedora 14 in una versione che ognuno può contribuire a testare. Questa fase, sotto la visione del Fedora QA, serve a localizzare e identificare i bug. Una volta risolti i bug, è possibile realizzare una release Beta. Una release Beta assomiglia molto alla terza release o final. La release final di Fedora 14 sarà disponibile in Ottobre.

Occorre il tuo contributo per rendere Fedora 14 sempre più performante, perciò ti preghiamo di dedicare un pò del tuo tempo per scaricare la Alpha e provando che le funzionalità per te importanti girino come devono. Se trovi un bug, ti preghiamo di segnalarlo -- ogni bug scoperto migliora l'esperienza di milioni di utenti di Fedora nel mondo. Insieme, è possibile realizzare una distribuzione Fedora veramente solida.
Per maggiori informazioni su come puoi aiutarci leggi la sezione Contribuire, alla fine di questa pagina.

Fedora 14 porta il nome in onore del fisico Robert B. Laughlin, le cui ricerche hanno riguardato, tra gli altri, il concetto di Emergenza, ossia l'analisi di quel processo che nasce dall'interazione di un gruppo composto da individui ed il cui sistema risultante risulta essere più complesso della somma delle sue parti - una descrizione che ben si adatta alla comunità open source.

Feature

This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free software. Examples include:

• System and session management. Fedora 14 introduces systemd, a smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing the background daemons that services we all use every day - such as NetworkManager and PulseAudio - rely on.
• Desktop virtualization. High-quality access to QEMU virtual machines moves a step closer with the introduction of Spice, a complete open source solution for interaction with virtualized desktops.
• Faster JPEG compression/decompression. The replacement of libjpeg with libjpeg-turbo brings speed improvements to a wide range of applications when handling images in JPEG format, including photo managers, video editors and PDF readers.
• New and updated programming languages. Fedora 14 sees the introduction of D, a systems programming language combining power and high performance with programmer productivity, as well as updates to Python, Erlang, and Perl.
• Better tools for developers. Simpler, faster debugging with gdb indexing and new commands for finding and fixing memory leaks, as well as new versions of NetBeans and Eclipse.
• The latest desktop environments. KDE 4.5 introduces window tiling and better notification features, along with many stability improvements. Sugar 0.90 features major usability improvements and support for 3G networks.
• Improved netbook experience with MeeGo™. The MeeGo™ Netbook UX 1.0 provides a user interface tailored specifically for netbooks, building on the foundations laid by Moblin in previous Fedora releases.
• Fedora on the cloud. From Fedora 14 onward images for EC2 will be provided for each new release, allowing users of Amazon's on-demand cloud computing platform to use the latest Fedora.
• IPMI server management made simple. New to Fedora 14 is ipmiutil, an easy-to-use, fully-featured IPMI server management utility that allows a wide range of management functions to be performed with just a few commands.
• Support for SCAP. Fedora 14 introduces an open source framework for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), allowing users to automatically scan their system to check whether it complies with a defined security configuration.
• Perl 6 support with Rakudo. Fedora 14 comes with Rakudo Perl, an implementation of the Perl 6 specification based on the Parrot virtual machine, which enables developers to write new applications or port existing ones to Perl 6.
• More powerful data analysis. Given that Fedora 14 is named after one of the giants of modern theoretical physics, it seems appropriate that Laughlin sees the introduction to Fedora of ROOT, an obejct-oriented, open-source platform for data acquisition, simulation and data analysis developed by CERN. Support for the increasingly popular R statistical programming language is also broadened with a range of new addons.

These and many other improvements provide a wide and solid base for future releases, further increasing the range of possibilities for developers and helping to maintain Fedora's position at the leading edge of free and open source technology.

Una lista completa e dettagliata di ciascuna delle feature citate è disponibile quì: Feature List Fedora 14

Inoltre sono diponibili anche diverse spin:

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/

Issues and Details

For more information including common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_release_notes

ATI/AMD Radeon
In particular, if a blank screen is presented during installation, especially with ATI/AMD Radeon video, please review this note in the Common Bugs page.

Contribuire

Bug reports are helpful, especially for Alpha. If you encounter any issues please report them and help make this release of Fedora the best ever.

Grazie, speriamo di vederti sul Fedora Project!