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Fedora 11 Is Now Available

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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  1. It's soo cutting edge by networkconsultant · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hurt myself trying to install it.

    1. Re:It's soo cutting edge by rbrausse · · 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 :)

  2. Re:20 seconds? Mama mia by gbarules2999 · · 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.

  3. Fedora 11 is now available on BitTorrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn pirates.

  4. Re:Ho ho. by MSG · · 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.

  5. Re:Too many releases! by migla · · 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.