14 DAY TRIAL // Jeremy Katz has announced on 17 April 2006 the draft schedule for the upcoming Fedora Core 6 release.
"We started off with a discussion around the merits of a six month vs a nine month schedule. While the longer schedule did allow us to get more "stuff" in, from my point of view of trying to get the release out, the more "stuff" actually made it significantly more difficult to finish the release. Also, a six month schedule tends to make it so that we line up better with a variety of other projects that we depend on. There was more, but suffice to say that the overwhelming consensus was that six month schedules work 'better'."
The dates line-up:
7 June - FC6 Test1 Development Freeze 14 June - FC6 Test1 Release 5 July - FC6 Test2 Development Freeze, feature freeze 12 July - FC6 Test2 Release 9 August - FC6 Test3 Development Freeze 16 August - FC6 Test3 Release 12 September - Final Devel Freeze. All package builds completed. 20 September - FC6 General Availability
Fedora Core released at every six months sounds very good, and it will be also lined up with the GNOME Project and OpenOffice.org scheduler.
Until Fedora Core 6 is available, you can download the present release, Fedora Core 5, from Softpedia.