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:we must keep releasing stuff

[viralMeme]

"we must keep releasing stuff and get things moving... and maybe one day, they will see us as a serious contender for a professional OS. good job, Red Hat"

Yea, KDE 4.2.3 will never be as polished as the commercial Vis, er Windows 7 1/2 Operating System ..

KDE 4.2.3 [youtube.com] KDE 4.3 Beta [youtube.com] Gnome 2.26.1 [youtube.com]

Re:The stats are looking good

[inode_buddha]

Although I still prefer FTP or HTTP, I've learned over the years to wait a few days before downloading. It also gives some time to see what the early adopters say, usually right here on slash.

Re:Too many releases!

[Ex-Linux-Fanboy]

why does linux have so many release cycles

Because Fedora is a cutting-edge testing release that's done about twice a year. The RedHat Linux way is to take software that Microsoft would only make available to internal testers in Redmond, and make it available to the general public as "Fedora".

If you want something with fewer release cycles, you're best bet is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (which every three years or so, takes a release of Fedora, declares it stable, renames it "RHEL", and updates that version of Fedora for seven years). If you're too cheap to buy RHEL, you can get CentOS [centos.org], which is a free derivative of RHEL. CentOS 5.3 is the Linux equivalent of "CentOS 5, service pack 3" [1]

[1] Well, except that adding new drivers to older releases of CentOS is harder than it is to do with Microsoft Windows. What can I say, Linux isn't perfect.

Re:What an immature release announcement!

[vivaelamor]

Maybe you'd prefer the release notes [fedoraproject.org] or the tour [fedoraproject.org] instead?

Re:Ho ho.

[Maniacal]

I researched this question and can't find a good answer. Maybe you or someone else here has one:

Why would you use Ubuntu Server? Why not just use Debian? CentOS rocks because it gives you a great alternative to an OS you have to pay for. Ubuntu Server gives a free version of a free OS?? Debian is rock solid and has been forever, from what I just read. I can see being a fanboy for Ubuntu because you like brown but what advantages does it bring to the server side?

20 Second Startup Time

[TheStonepedo]

Is that on my grandmother's Pentium II laptop or my boss's multi-core workstation? Startup time seems like an arbitrary statistic for a Linux distribution that should run on a broad range of outdated and current hardware.

Re:I've evaluated pre-release version

[bwt]

How are we supposed to evaluate your statements if you don't say HOW running distro A is a pain in the ass, and how distro B fixed it. From the fact that you don't even try to explain this I think we're left with the obvious conclusion: distro A doesn't meet your requirement of being distro B.