The hard working team behind the Fedora project announced yesterday the first alpha release of Fedora 10, which brings many new improvements, features and fixes over previous versions. Dubbed Cambridge, Fedora 10 Alpha introduces better support for webcams, a revamped boot environment, upstream improvements, RPM 4.6, GNOME 2.23.5 and KDE 4.1. The development cycle of Fedora 10 will continue with the beta edition (due for release on September 2nd), the preview release on 10 October, and it will conclude with the final release sometime at the end of October 2008. Below are some of the highlights of Fedora 10 Alpha:

￭ RPM 4.6
￭ Brand new boot environment
￭ Wireless connection sharing
￭ Improved audio system
￭ Security audit utility
￭ Better webcam support
￭ Improved infrared remote control support
￭ Haskell support
￭ OCaml support
￭ Upstream bugfixes, improvements and enhancements.

Let's have a look at screenshots of Fedora 10 Alpha:



Fedora 10 Release Schedule:

August 5th, 2008 - Fedora 10 Alpha release
September 2nd, 2008 - Fedora 10 Beta release
October 10th, 2008 - Fedora 10 Preview release
October 28th, 2008 - Fedora 10 Final release.

Fedora 10 will be available as GNOME and KDE Live CD editions for 32bit and 64bit platforms and the usual DVD edition.

Download Fedora 10 Alpha right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is an alpha release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only. Please test it and report bugs to the Fedora Bug Tracker.