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The first alpha release of Fedora 14 "Laughlin" is now available
The availability of first alpha release of Fedora 14 "Laughin" has been announced by Dennis Gilmore (see the release announcement). The final release of much awaited Fedora 14 is due in September this year, and this is the first chance for the users to see how the upcoming release of Fedora will be like. The main goal of an alpha release is to find and fix bugs, the alpha version is designed in such a way as to help the Fedora team to identify bugs.
Name
The release announcement also gives some details on how the name was chosen for Fedora 14 as quoted,
Fedora 14 is named in honor of distinguished physicist Robert B. Laughlin, whose fields of research have included, among other things, the topic of emergence. Emergence is the process by which a group of individual components interact to produce a system that is more complex than the sum of its parts - a perfect description of an open source community.
Accepted Features
- Boost 1.44
- D Programming
- EC2
- Eclipse Helios
- Erlang R14
- Gdb Index
- GNUstep
- ipmiutil
- libjpeg-turbo
- KDE 4.5
- MeeGo 1.0
- Memory Debugging Tools
- NetBeans 6.9
- Open SCAP
- Perl 5.12
- Python 2.7
- Rakudo Star
- Spice
- Sugar 0.90
- systemd
For full details on Fedora 14's accepted features visit the official page.
Major Features
The release notes page also highlights some of the major features of Fedora 14, some of them are listed below.
- Fedora 14 plans to introduce systemd, a smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing background daemons and services. It is a drop-in replacement for sysvinit and upstart, maintaining compatibility with SysV and LSB init scripts.
- Fedora 14 will come loaded with Linux Kernel 2.6.35.
- Spice will be used for Desktop Virtualization.
- The replacement of libjpeg with libjpeg-turbo is also a part of Fedora 14 and is supposed to improve speed in applications that handle JPEG format, including photo managers, video editors and PDF readers.
- Introduction of a system programming language D, as well as updates to Python, Erlang, and Perl.
- Improved gdb will provide a simpler, more faster debuging.
- NetBeans 6.9, and Eclipse 'Helios', some tools for developers C++ libraries are also upgraded to 1.44.0.
- Inclusion of KDE Plasma Desktop 4.5.0
- The latest release of Sugar features major usability improvements for the first login screen and the control panel, as well as support for 3G networks.
- MeeGo™ Netbook UX 1.0 is also a part of Fedora 14 to enhance the notebook experience.
- Fedora 14 introduces an open source framework for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), allowing users to automatically scan their system to check whether it complies with a defined security configuration.
- From Fedora 14 onward images for EC2 will be provided for each new release, allowing users of Amazon's on-demand cloud computing platform to use the latest Fedora.
- Fedora 14 comes with Rakudo Perl, an implementation of the Perl 6 specification based on the Parrot virtual machine.
- Support for the increasingly popular R statistical programming language continues to broaden in Fedora 14 for more powerfull data analysis.
For full details on Fedora 14 features visit the official page.
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