Fedora Project team has released today via bittorrent the first (Test 1) of 3 testing releases of Fedora Core 6. Notable features of this testing release are:

- Support for the Intel-based Macintosh platform;
- Ipv6 support in the installer;
- Scim-bridge for improved i18n input;
- Puplet applet for update notifications;
- New printing system;
- GNOME 2.15;
- KDE 3.5.3;
- 1600+ Extras packages conveniently available via yum.

The initial date of this release was officially stated as 14 June, but as we already know, the Fedora Project delays this dates. Fedora Core 6 is expected to be available around November 2006.

Fedora Core is an operating system and platform based on Linux that is always free for anyone to use, modify and distribute, now and forever. It is developed by a large community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software and standards. Fedora Core is part of the Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat, Inc.

Fedora Core is available for x86, x86_64 and PPC systems.

You can download and test this first release of what will become Fedora Core 6 now from Softpedia.