Fedora 7 Test 1 Released

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.