14 DAY TRIAL // The Fedora 12 (Constantine) operating system reached end of life on December 2nd, 2010. This means that, starting four days ago, users of Fedora 12 no longer receive security/critical fixes and software updates. Therefore, all Fedora 12 users are urged to upgrade to the most recent version, Fedora 14, as soon as possible.
Fedora 12 was officially released a year ago, on November 17th, 2009. It was dubbed Constantine and it offered the latest stable version of GNOME 2.28 and KDE SC 4.3 desktop environments, faster boot experience (powered by Plymouth), improved HD video codecs, spanning desktop support, better webcam support, RPM XZ compression, better support for Intel hardware, EXT4 as the default filesystem, Moblin support, and Linux Kernel 2.6.31.5.
"This announcement is a reminder that as of 2010-12-02, Fedora 12 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 12. Fedora 13 will continue to receive updates until approximately one month after the release of Fedora 15." - Kevin Fenzi stated in the official announcement.
About Fedora
The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open-source project. Fedora Linux is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, which focuses on wide access, distribution and free modification.
Fedora Linux is built by a worldwide community (the Fedora Project), which grants access to anyone wishing to further advance the development of open-source software. Fedora 10 is available as GNOME and KDE Live CD editions for 32bit and 64bit platforms, and the usual CDs/DVD edition for x86, x86_64 and PPC architectures.
If you haven't upgraded yet to Fedora 14, you can grab the GNOME or KDE Live CDs from Softpedia, here and here. The Fedora 14 installable only DVD is also available for download from Softpedia, here.
For detailed upgrade instructions, please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades.