Fedora 15 "Lovelock" Unleashed
Red Hat's community distribution Fedora is available in version 15, which includes many new features.
The new Fedora release sports Gnome 3.0 on the desktop, KDE plasma workspaces 4.6 and Xfce 4.8 alternative desktop environments, Btrfs file system as a menu item, Firefox 4, and the LibreOffice productivity suite.
Sys admins will like the dynamic firewall, systemd system and session manager, and BoxGrinder appliance creator. Developers will find programming language updates, the Robotics Suite, GCC 4.6, and Maven 3.
More details are in the Announcement and the Release Notes.
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Fedora 15 confident of a good release
Given Fedora's excellent track record on QA from F10 + (i have used all releases since then) I think and I hope that F15 will be a stable, and fast release.
I know that many have commented on GNOME 3 and the rights/wrongs of it I won't judge it until I've used it. Will give it couple of months for updates as well, before I make up muy mind.
All the best to my fellow Linux fans!.