14 DAY TRIAL // The Fedora Project proudly announced a few minutes ago, February 28th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the Alpha version of the upcoming Fedora 17 operating system, due for release in May 2012.
Dubbed Beefy Miracle and powered by Linux kernel 3.3, Fedora 17 Alpha brings lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes.
Fedora 17 Alpha is distributed as an installable DVD and Live CDs with the latest development version of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment and KDE Software Compilation 4.8, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.
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Highlights of Fedora 17 Alpha:
· Linux kernel 3.3.0 RC3; · Move all to /usr; · GNOME 3.4 Beta 1; · KDE SC 4.8; · Multitouch support; · PackageKit integration; · Automatic KDE Plasma dependency generation; · SSSD AutoFS integration; · SSSD-Sudo integration; · The GIMP 2.8; · Added Wallaby, a programmable semantic configuration service for Condor; · Added "deny ptrace" for SELinux; · systemd started services now run in private /tmp; · Added Non-Uniform Memory Alignment Daemon (numad); · OpenJDK is now the default Java Runtime Environment; · Updated IPA to version 3, adding support for SELinux management, Active Directory domains, and SSH public keys management; · Added new Font Configuration tool; · ICC profile support for printing; · Added English Typing Booster input method for iBus; · Inscript 2 keymaps for Indic languages; · Haskell Platform was updated to version 2011.4, with support for GHC 7.0.4; · Boost was updated to version 1.48; · DRI2 3D drivers only; · Integration of libpinyin for better Chinese pinyin input; · OpenStack now uses libguestfs and Qpid.
February 28th, 2012 - Fedora 17 Alpha release
April 3rd, 2012 - Fedora 17 Beta release
May 8th, 2012 - Fedora 17 final release
Download Fedora 17 Alpha Installable DVD right now from Softpedia.
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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. If you encounter bugs please report them to the Red Hat Bugzilla.
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