[in the news] First look: Fedora 15 arrives with GNOME 3.0 and systemd
Kara Schiltz
kschiltz at redhat.com
Wed May 25 15:17:30 UTC 2011
Ars Technica
5.25.11
First look: Fedora 15 arrives with GNOME 3.0 and systemd
By Ryan Paul
The community of open source software developers behind the Fedora Linux
distribution announced this week the release of version 15. The update
brings an overhauled desktop user interface and a number of noteworthy
architectural improvements under the hood.
Fedora is a community-driven Linux distribution that is sponsored by Red
Hat. It is released twice a year on a six-month development cycle and
typically ships with the latest cutting-edge Linux software. Fedora is
known for riding ahead of the curve and is often the first Linux distro
to introduce major new features. It also serves as an incubation space
for emerging Red Hat technologies, particularly in areas like
virtualization. It lacks the usability and robustness of some other
distros, but its unique technical advantages and high commitment to open
source ideology are appealing to system administrators, software
developers, and software freedom advocates.
The most significant user-facing change in Fedora 15 is the inclusion of
GNOME 3.0, a major update of the open source GNOME desktop environment.
It brings a completely new desktop shell to Fedora that helps to
modernize the user experience. The new shell is built with the Clutter
toolkit and requires hardware-accelerated rendering in order to operate.
Fedora fortunately does a pretty good job of handling it with open
source drivers on many hardware configurations.
Full post:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/05/first-look-fedora-15-arrives-with-gnome-30-and-systemd.ars
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