http://fedoraproject.org/
Red Hat released Fedora 7 today, a new version of their Linux
operating system developed in partnership with the open source
community and Red Hat engineers. This is Fedora's first release to
merge the Fedora Core and Fedora Extras package repositories under one
set of packaging policies. Another first for Fedora 7 is all the
software used is released under a free license, and all
decision-making is made in public.
The big innovations touted for this release are:
* Revisor tool - a graphical appliation built on top of Fedora's
other build tools that gives flexibility to build an ISO, a live CD,
etc. Mike Spevack, Fedora's project leader, feels this is Fedora's
crown jewel. Customized versions of Fedora are now possible to an
extent that was not available previously.
* Live CD - first time for Fedora, (however not an industry
shake-up here).
* Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology has been
integrated with the Fedora graphical virtualization manager tool. KVM
provides a full virtualization solution, and users have a choice
between KVM and Xen, along with Qemu, in this release.
You can pick up a copy of this new version at the Fedora Project.
