14 DAY TRIAL // Fedora 7 Test 1 has started appearing today on the mirrors worldwide, just as I am writing this:
"Just a quick blurb. Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are still fine tuning targetted spins of the collection as part of the merger of Core and Extras. We also produced a LiveCD that has the ability to install to your harddrive should you wish."
Fedora 7 is promising new features like:
￭ Rock solid wireless networking support; ￭ Wireless firmware; ￭ Pungi will be used for tree building; ￭ Fast user switching; ￭ RandR 1.2; ￭ KVM virtualization support; ￭ Boot and shutdown speed-up; ￭ New init system; ￭ rpm and yum enhancements; ￭ libata will be used for PATA support; ￭ syslog to be replaced with syslog-ng; ￭ Improved firewire support; ￭ Real-time kernel; ￭ Tickless kernel support; ￭ Fix wakeups across the distribution; ￭ Encrypted file systems.
The Fedora 7 Schedule:
￭ 23 January 2007 - F7 Test1 development freeze ￭ 1 February 2007 - F7 Test1 Release ￭ 20 February 2007 - F7 FEATURE freeze / F7 string freeze / F7 Test2 development freeze ￭ 27 February 2007 - F7 Test2 release ￭ 19 March 2007 - F7 translation freeze / F7 Test3 development freeze ￭ 27 March 2007 - F7 Test 3 Release / Continual freeze. Only critical bugs fixed ￭ 5 April 2007 - Final devel freeze. ￭ 26 April 2007 - F7 General Availability
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. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.
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. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule.
You can download Fedora 7 Test 1 now from Softpedia.
You can download Fedora Core 6 now from Softpedia.