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June 2nd, 2012, 19:21 GMT · By

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Goodbye Fedora 15

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Dear Fedora fans, we are sorry to announced today that the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) operating system will reach end of life (EOL) in three weeks, on June 26th, 2012.

Dubbed Lovelock, the Fedora 15 operating system was released on May 24th, 2011, it was powered by Linux kernel 2.6.38 and it introduced features such as a dynamic firewall, Mozilla Firefox 4, LibreOffice 3, a new full-text search tool, and a new double-entry accounting system.

Today, June 2nd, we are announcing that starting with June 26th 2012, users of the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) operating system will no longer receive security/critical fixes and software updates, and no new packages will be added.

Therefore, all Fedora 15 users are urged to upgrade to the most recent version, Fedora 17, as soon as possible. For detailed upgrade instructions, please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DistributionUpgrades.

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Comment #1 by: zod on 03 Jun 2012, 13:39 UTC reply to this comment

On a sidenote, F15 also introduced Gnome 3.

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