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Fedora 15 Released

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @07:29AM from the ooo-shiny-new-features dept.

halfline writes "Fedora 15 was released today. It features GNOME 3 (with its substantially redone UI) and the systemd init system by default." The release also brings the latest KDE and XFCE versions, improved Btrfs support, amd a switch from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice. Installation images are available from the usual sources.

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Torrent by kai_hiwatari · 2011-05-24 07:40 · Score: 5, Informative

The direct download was quite slow for me. Torrent was faster for me. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
1. Re:Torrent by drb226 · 2011-05-24 09:41 · Score: 1, Informative
  
  Don't forget the many^H^H^H^H CC-licensed movies/TV shows, such as Pioneer 1.
Re:Does it still crash all the time? by ZankerH · 2011-05-24 07:52 · Score: 3, Informative

Protip: Fedora Core 4 was released almost 6 years ago. This is ancient history in free software development terms (unless you're HURD), and you should assume any experience you had with it is irrelevant to any modern GNU/Linux distro, Fedora included.