While every Fedora fan enjoys the newly released Fedora 11 Linux-based operating system, the developers are working hard on the next release, Fedora 12, due for release in November-December 2009. Make sure you visit our website, starting with August 18th when the first alpha will be released, as we will do a full coverage of the Fedora 12 development process. Without any further introduction, let's have a look at the release schedule:

August 18th, 2009 - Alpha release
October 6th, 2009 - Beta release
October 20th, 2009 - Release Candidate
November 3rd, 2009 - Fedora 12 final release

This is the official release schedule, but everyone knows that it might change in time, and the final version could be delayed a few weeks. For Fedora 12, the development team will prepare new and exciting features, such as:

· GNOME 2.28 desktop environment
· KDE 4.3 desktop environment
· PolicyKit
· IPv6 and system-wide connections support for NetworkManager
· liblvm (LVM userspace library)
· Empathy (Pidgin replacement)
· debuginfo filesystem
· Multiseat
· Dracut (mkinitrd/nash replacement)
· Systemtap Static Probes
· OpenOffice 3
· and many more!

About Fedora

The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open-source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products and it is not a supported product of Red Hat. The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community in order to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software.

If you haven't upgraded yet to Fedora 11, you can download the DVD right now from Softpedia. The KDE Live CD and the GNOME Live CD are also available from Softpedia, here and here.