Fedora 11 Is Now Available

rexx mainframe writes "Fedora 11 is now available on BitTorrent. Fedora 11 offers ext4, a 20-second startup, and the latest GNOME, KDE and XFCE releases. Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3's latest pre-releases are available as well. Fedora 11 features Presto, a yum plugin that reduces bandwidth consumption drastically by downloading only binary differences between updates. It also features Openchange for interoperability with Microsoft Exchange. There are new security enhancements, improved and upgraded development tools, and cutting-edge features in areas such as virtualization."

Re:Too many releases!

[Anonymous Coward]

You are magically and incredibly free *not* to upgrade. If you cant stand the "pressure" get Debian, its better anyway ;-)

Re:This will probably become RHEL6

[Anonymous Coward]

Wikipedia says yes [wikipedia.org]

Re:Ho ho.

[gbarules2999]

I wish I could. My main computer's barely powerful enough to run one OS at a time, much less two.

I know, I know, it's time for an upgrade. You tell my wallet that.

Re:Ho ho.

[Zocalo]

Unless you're really fussed about free (speech) software or desperately strapped for hardware resources, you could try the free (beer) version of the VMware ESXi Hypervisor. You don't get all of the nice toys of the paid for version, but it's a pretty neat way of trying out distros when hardware resources are limited and has next to no impact when only running one VM. Some of the main advantages to this:

• Unless resources are really tight, you can still run multiple OS's side by side should it be helpful to do so
• You have the fallback of not needed to completely blow away an existing setup until you are happy with the new one
• Makes it very easy to make every install a clean build
• Makes it very easy to make every install an upgrade (of a copy) too - what's your preference?

Having had a few OS installs go wrong and being down a system for a few days, I'm giving some serious thought to doing this on all my personal systems in future, but what would be even better for that would be to get the Hypervisor in the BIOS. At the moment though, that kind of functionality seems to be only available on higher end motherboards aimed at the server market...

Re:Too many releases!

[harryandthehenderson]

Seriously, why does linux have so many release cycles.

Because people want the latest versions of software?

That's one thing I didnt like about Ubuntu. It took me forever to get it running just the way I wanted and by then a new version was out and I had the pressure to upgrade..and of course..I had to set up everything again since invariably, it broke something.

You didn't have to upgrade at all. No one forces you to do so if everything already works just fine.

It's funny how many people here bitched that windows was coming out with Win 7 so soon after vista, but they don't mind that linux seems to release something every couple months depending on the distro. Odd.

Because it doesn't cost me a couple of hundred dollars to upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10? Or from Fedora 10 to 11? I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.

Fedora server components are not bleeding-edge

[FranTaylor]

The desktop may be bleeding-edge, but the server components are rock-solid.

I might have a tough time adjusting the volume or getting the desktop applets to work right, but the server implementations are stable and work right every time.

Meh...

[Murpster]

I began using Slackware back when the shiny new Linux kernel was 0.95a and used Slackware until about 1996 or early 1997 when I switched to RedHat. I was a huge fan of RedHat and the first few Fedoras, but with newer releases, they seem to be focusing on making a Winux system for dummies and put more effort into making snazzy looking desktop environments and writing clunky inefficient GUIs for simple systems tasks. The systems aren't as reliable as they used to be, you get all kinds of garbage dependencies and badly configured packages. I haven't put anything newer than FC8 on my home systems, but I installed Fedora 10 on a work system last year. I wash my hands of this crap. I don't know what distro I'll use next, but I'm not installing any flavor of RedHat again on any of my systems.

Re:Ho ho.

[donaldm]

Fedora is only supported for 18 months or so, do you want to reinstall your server in 18 months time ?

To reinstall a server is silly unless you are performing a disaster recovery. In a commercial environment it is almost impossible to get some firms to approve of an update never mind an upgrade. I know of firms who are still running Redhat 2.1 which is now unsupported even though we have been hounding them about this for the last two years.