Fedora 16 Has Been Released, Download Now

Finally! Softpedia is proud to announce that the highly anticipated Fedora 16 (Verne) Linux operating system has been released on the official torrent channels of the Fedora Project.

As expected, the Fedora Project developers unleashed a few minutes ago, November 8th, the immediate availability for download of the final and stable version of the Fedora 16 operating system, dubbed Verne.

Fedora 16 (Verne) is powered by the newly released Linux kernel 3.1, it features the GNOME 3.2.1 desktop environment with the GNOME Shell interface and the KDE Software Compilation 4.7.2 environment.

Fedora 16 includes OpenStack, lots of SELinux enhancements, updated Haskell, Perl and Ada environments, Blender 2.5, Boost 1.47, TigerVNC 1.1, and much more.

There's no official announcement at the time of writing this article, but we've downloaded and tested the new Fedora 16 (Verne) release. Don't miss out our Fedora 16 screenshot tour!

Fedora 16 (Verne) GNOME 3.2.1 Live CD

Fedora 16 (Verne) KDE SC 4.7.2 Live CD

Highlights of Fedora 16:

· Linux kernel 3.1.0;
· GNOME 3.2.1 desktop environment (with GNOME Shell);
· KDE Software Compilation 4.7.2;
· GRUB2;
· Systemd services management;
· SELinux improvements;
· 1000 System accounts;
· Added Chrony NTP client;
· Removed HAL;
· Removed ConsoleKit;
· Automatic Multi-seat support;
· Support for cloud computing;
· Restored support for Xen;
· Enhanced Spice 0.10 app to manage virtual machines;
· Many improvements for developers;
· Aeolus Conductor;
· Blender 2.5;
· Boost 1.47;
· Glasgow Haskell Compiler 7.0.4;
· Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1;
· GNOME Input integration;
· libvirt networking support improvements;
· New mkdumprd for kdump;
· Perl 5.14;
· Static analysis of CPython extensions;
· Sugar 0.94;
· TigerVNC 1.1;
· USB Network Redirection.

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