Fedora 11 Is Now Available

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 9, 2009 @04:01AM from the one-louder dept.

rexx mainframe writes "Fedora 11 is now available on BitTorrent. Fedora 11 offers ext4, a 20-second startup, and the latest GNOME, KDE and XFCE releases. Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3's latest pre-releases are available as well. Fedora 11 features Presto, a yum plugin that reduces bandwidth consumption drastically by downloading only binary differences between updates. It also features Openchange for interoperability with Microsoft Exchange. There are new security enhancements, improved and upgraded development tools, and cutting-edge features in areas such as virtualization."

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It's soo cutting edge by networkconsultant · 2009-06-09 04:05 · Score: 5, Funny

I hurt myself trying to install it.
1. Re:It's soo cutting edge by rbrausse · 2009-06-09 04:52 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  and this is the reason why I use it on my private laptop: I want to know what will hit my servers with Debian stable in 4 years :)
Re:20 seconds? Mama mia by gbarules2999 · 2009-06-09 04:17 · Score: 5, Funny

These boots are made for walkin', and that's just what they'll do...after twenty seconds the boots are gonna walk all over you.
Fedora 11 is now available on BitTorrent by Anonymous Coward · 2009-06-09 04:22 · Score: 5, Funny

Damn pirates.
Too many releases! by pablo_max · 2009-06-09 04:24 · Score: 3, Funny

Seriously, why does linux have so many release cycles. That's one thing I didnt like about Ubuntu. It took me forever to get it running just the way I wanted and by then a new version was out and I had the pressure to upgrade..and of course..I had to set up everything again since invariably, it broke something.
It's funny how many people here bitched that windows was coming out with Win 7 so soon after vista, but they don't mind that linux seems to release something every couple months depending on the distro. Odd.
1. Re:Too many releases! by migla · 2009-06-09 05:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Moving quickly is the biggest strength of open source development. That and choice, so that'd be the two big strengths of open source. And the community.
  Yes, our three main weapons are speed, choice, community and an almost fanatical devotion to freedom.
  
  --
  Some of my favourite people are from th US; Vonnegut, Chomsky, Bill Hicks.
Re:Ho ho. by MSG · 2009-06-09 04:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Fedora 11 has been out for two hours. You've already downloaded it, evaluated it, and switched some of your servers to a different distribution?
You work faster than anyone I've ever met. I am humbled by your awesome ability.