As the title reads, Fedora 13 has blasted off & is ready to land on your computers. After couple of delays, Fedora 13 releases with many exciting new features. Go ahead, experience the cutting edge Fedora experience!
The folks at fedora Project have been working hard to release yet another release of the Fedora OS. Fedora 13 codenamed Goddard is all set to launch on 18th May 2010. As always Fedora has been always on forefront to implementation of latest updates from the Open Source World. Let’s have a look at the features which are expected to be included in the final release of Fedora 13.
Whenever your Linux system boots up, certain daemons(equivalent of windows services) are loaded into the memory in background. These daemons provide certain functionalities & launch certain applications in some events. Daemons run in background all the time from bootup & get into action when a particular event happens on a system.
For E.g. You plug a pendrive in your computer & after a few seconds you see a nautilus window with the pendrive contents. This is due to the “HAL Daemon” which monitors the hardware & once it detects the new hardware i.e. pendrive in our case it reports to the GNOME about it & simultaneously mounts it & launches Nautilus. HAL is a critical daemon in a Linux system but not all others are & so we must disable them. Disabling unwanted daemons helps in freeding up valuable memory resources & also helps in making the boot faster. Some daemons when kept running also open up potential loopholes for hackers to exploit.
Its the time again for all Open Source fanatics to rejoice as Fedora 11 a.k.a Leonidas steps in. Yes, the much anticipated Fedora 11 is out now to download.
Fedora as always this time too promises to give you the latest software packages from the Open Source world. After getting delayed by almost 2 weeks, the Fedora community rolled out another release which promises much more this time. Fedora 11 includes the latest versions of all desktop environments (KDE, GNOME & XFCE), Ext4 file system, presto, kernel modsetting, new volume control, jaw dropping 20 seconds boot time & much more.
What are you waiting for? Get your copy of Fedora 11 now itself.
