Fedora 18 released

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Fedora 18 released

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[TD]Robyn Bergeron <rbergero-AT-redhat.com>[/TD]

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[TD]Announcing the release of Fedora 18.[/TD]

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[TD]Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:03:18 -0500 (EST)[/TD]

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The Fedora Project is incredibly delighted to announce the release of Fedora 18 ("Spherical Cow").

Heck, we'd even say that getting this release to you has been a mooving experience.

Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver

innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months...or so. But no

bull: Spherical Cow, is of course, Fedora's best release yet. You'll go through the hoof when you

hear about the Grade A Prime F18 features. You can always cownt on us to bring you the best

features first.

Can't wait for a taste? You can get started downloading now:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

Detailed information about this release can be seen in the release notes:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Releas...

== What's New in Fedora 18? ==

The Fedora Project takes great pride in being able to show off features for all types of use cases,

including traditional desktop users, systems administration, development, the cloud, and many more.

But a few new features are guaranteed to be seen by nearly anyone installing Fedora and are

improvements that deserve to be called out on their own.

The user interface for Fedora's installation software, Anaconda, has been completely re-written

from the ground up. Making its debut in Fedora 18, the new UI introduces major improvements to the

installation experience. It uses a hub-and-spoke model that makes installation easier for new

users, offering them concise explanations about their choices. Advanced users and system

administrators are of course still able to take advantage of more complex options. The general look

and feel of the installation experience has been vastly upgraded, providing modern, clean, and

comprehensible visuals during the process. While the new installer should work well for most users

in most configurations, there are inevitably a few teething problems in the first release of such a

major revision.

Known design limitations of the new installer in F18 are listed here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/NewInstaller

Known significant bugs can be seen here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F18_bugs#Installatio...

We welcome your constructive and specific feedback as we continue to work on refining the installer

for future releases.

The upgrade process for Fedora now uses a new tool called FedUp (Fedora Upgrader). FedUp replaces

pre-upgrade as well as the DVD methods for upgrading that have been used in previous Fedora

releases. FedUp integrates with systemd to enable the upgrade functionality, doing the work in a

pristine boot environment.

Of course, it wouldn't be a release announcement without a spotted -- er, dotted -- list of all the

other fantastic features you'll see in Fedora 18:

=== For desktop users ===

Moooove over, stale desktops. We've got a small herd of choices udderly suited to your

preferences.

* GNOME 3.6: The newest version of the GNOME desktop provides an enhanced Messaging Tray, support

for Microsoft Exchange and Skydrive, and many more new features.

* Cinnamon: Fedora users now have the option of using Cinnamon, an advanced desktop environment

based on GNOME 3. Cinnamon takes advantage of advanced features provided by the GNOME backend while

providing users with a more traditional desktop experience.

* MATE Desktop: The MATE desktop provides users with a classic GNOME 2.x style user interface. This

desktop is perfect for users who have been running GNOME Classic or other window managers like XFCE

as an alternative to GNOME 3.

* KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.9: KDE Plasma Workspaces has been updated with many new features and

improved stability and performance, including updates to the Dolphin File Manager, Konsole, and

KWin Window manager.

* Xfce 4.10: The lightweight and easy-to-use Xfce desktop has been updated to the 4.10 version with

many bug fixes and enhancements, including a new MIME type editor, a reworked xfce4-run dialog,

improved mouse settings, tabs in the Thunar file manager, and options to tile windows in xfwm4.

Through all of these and more, Xfce continues to improve without getting in your way.

Regardless of your desktop choice, Fedora 18 offers...

* Improved storage management: SSM (System Storage Manager) is an easy-to-use command-line

interface tool that presents a unified view of storage management tools. Devices, storage pools,

volumes, and snapshots can now be managed with one tool, with the same syntax for managing all of

your storage. (It's great for systems administrators, too!)

=== For developers ===

For developers there are all sorts of moo-tivating goodies:

* Fresh versions of programming languages: Using Perl, Rails, or Python? All three of these

languages are updated in Fedora 18. We've got Rails 3.2, Python 3.3, and Perl 5.16 fresh off the

farm.

* Clojure gets more love with the addition of tooling packages, including the Leinengen build tool,

as well as Clojure libraries and frameworks, including Korma and Noir.

* DragonEgg connects GCC and LLVM: DragonEgg is a plugin for the GCC compilers to allow use of the

LLVM optimization and code-generation framework. DragonEgg provides software developers with more

optimization and code-generation options for use with the GCC compilers. DragonEgg also allows GCC

to be used for cross-compilation to target architectures supported by LLVM without requiring any

special cross-compilation compiler packages. Fedora continues to develop and use GCC as the

standard default compiler.

=== For systems administrators ===

Keep track of your infrastructure herds with these new features:

* Offline system updates: Systems can now be updated offline, allowing for a more stable update of

critical system components. This functionality is only integrated with GNOME Desktop Environment in

this release but uses the distribution neutral PackageKit and systemd API's and hence can be made

available for other desktop environments as well based on the interest from upstream developers.

* Storage enhancements: StorageManagement is a collection of tools and libraries for managing

storage area networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS).

* Samba 4: This popular suite of tools has long provided file- and print-sharing services in

heterogeneous operating system environments. The long-awaited Samba 4 introduces the first free and

open source implementation of Active Directory protocols and includes a new scripting interface,

allowing Python programs to interface to Samba's internals.

* Riak: A fault-tolerant key-value store, Riak provides easy operations and predictable scaling as

a NoSQL database.

=== For clouds and virtualization ===

Do you spend your days <strike>grazing</strike> gazing into the clouds? Here's just a taste of some

of the cloud and virt features you'll see in Fedora 18:

* Eucalyptus makes its first appearance in Fedora, with their 3.2 release included in F18. This

platform for on-premise (private) Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds uses existing infrastructure

to create scalable and secure AWS-compatible cloud resources for compute, network, and storage.

* OpenStack: With the Folsom release in Fedora 18, OpenStack continues to have the newest releases

in Fedora. This open source cloud computing platform enables users to deploy their own cloud

infrastructures for private or public cloud deployments. Heat, an incubated OpenStack project, is

also available in F18, providing an API that enables the orchestration of cloud applications using

file or web based templates.

* oVirt Engine: The management application for the oVirt virtualization platform, oVirt Engine, is

updated to the newest version, 3.1. This release includes extensive new features, including support

for live snapshots, cloning virtual machines from snapshots, quotas, and more.

* Suspend and resume support for virt guests: Virtual machines get love with this feature, enabling

the ability to suspend and resume guests, with the close of a laptop lid or menu option or via the

command line.

And that's only the beginning. For a more complete list with details of all the new features in

Fedora 18, steer over to:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/FeatureList

== Downloads, upgrades, documentation, and common bugs ==

The steaks are high--don't miss out on installing the best version of Fedora yet! Get it now:

http://get.fedoraproject.org/

If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading

Fedora has replaced pre-upgrade with FedUp (excuse the pun.. or don't), a more robust solution, and

pushed several bug fixes to older releases of Fedora to enable an easy upgrade to Fedora 18.

Graze...er, gaze...upon the full release notes for Fedora 18, guides for several languages, and

learn about known bugs and how to report new ones, here:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

With all the changes to the installer, we particularly recommend reading the Installation Guide:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Instal...

Everyone makes missteaks. Fedora 18 common bugs are documented at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F18_bugs

This page includes information on several known bugs in the installer, so we recommend reading it

before installing Fedora 18.

== Fedora Spins ==

Fedora spins are alternate versions of Fedora tailored for various types of users via hand-picked

application set or customizations, from desktop options to spins for those interested in gaming,

robotics, or design software. More information on our various spins is available at:

http://spins.fedoraproject.org

== Contributing ==

There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and

content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design and do

artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by

millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today!

== Fedora 19 ==

Even as we continue to provide updates with enhancements and bug fixes to improve the Fedora number

experience, our next release, Fedora 19, is already being developed in parallel and has been open

for active development for several months already. We have an early plan for release at the end of

May 2013, and the final schedule for F19 is going to be based on the results of the planning

process:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/Schedule

== Feature Deprecation ==

Fedora has always been full of great features, but sometimes we need to cull the herd. Saying

good-bye is always hard, but here are the ones we had to put out to pasture this time around.

* /etc/sysconfig Deprecations: Several system configurations have moved out of /etc/sysconfig. The

goal of these changes is to reduce - as described in

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-new-configuration-fi... - the unnecessary differences

between Linux distributions and share a standard location for common settings.

For a full list of changes read the release notes.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Releas...

== Contact information ==

If you are a journalist or reporter, you can find additional information here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Press

Enjoy!

-Robyn Bergeron

Sursa: Fedora 18 released [LWN.net]

[olimpiulucian]

L-am instalat,l-am folosit o ora,si m-am intors la ubuntu.Nu imi mergea sa deschid programe cu touchpadul,sa apesi de 2 ori si sa se deschida,trebuia sa dau pe buton,am stat 10 minute doar ca sa instalez adobe flash(si asta dupa multe cautari pe google),nu poti da "minimize" decat cu click drepta,si or mai fi altele dar mi-am dat seama ca nu e pentru mine si l-am dezinstalat.Asta e pentru cei ce au multa experienta in linux si au chef sa-si bata capul cu fel de fel de probleme.Parerea mea,ubuntu este mult peste.De ce?Odata instalat,practic nu mai trebuie sa faci nimic,doar sa intalezi cateva programe pe care le gasesti foarte simplu in software center.Ubuntu are si design mai placut si e si "user friendly".

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L-am instalat,l-am folosit o ora,si m-am intors la ubuntu.Nu imi mergea sa deschid programe cu touchpadul,sa apesi de 2 ori si sa se deschida,trebuia sa dau pe buton,am stat 10 minute doar ca sa instalez adobe flash(si asta dupa multe cautari pe google),nu poti da "minimize" decat cu click drepta,si or mai fi altele dar mi-am dat seama ca nu e pentru mine si l-am dezinstalat.Asta e pentru cei ce au multa experienta in linux si au chef sa-si bata capul cu fel de fel de probleme.Parerea mea,ubuntu este mult peste.De ce?Odata instalat,practic nu mai trebuie sa faci nimic,doar sa intalezi cateva programe pe care le gasesti foarte simplu in software center.Ubuntu are si design mai placut si e si "user friendly".

user friendly != ati video card DRIVER friendly!

[olimpiulucian]

user friendly != ati video card DRIVER friendly!

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