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Fedora 17 Released

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-a-movie-title dept.

ekimd writes "Fedora 17 aka "Beefy Miracle" is released. Some of the major features include: ext4 with >16TB filesystems, dynamic firewall configuration, automatic multi-seat, and more. Major software updates include Gnome 3.4, GIMP 2.8, and GCC 4.7. The full feature list can be found here. Personally, I still find Gnome 3 to be an 'unholy mess' so I'm loving XFCE with Openbox."

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  1. Re:Beefy Miracle? by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Informative

    The most significant difference between Fedora and Ubuntu here is that in Fedora, the only time you're likely to see a release name is on a Slashdot article, and then if you look at /etc/issue*. Everybody else calls it Fedora 17. In Ubuntuland everybody calls the release by at least the noun part of the release name. For Fedora, its terribly inconsequential, and I say that as the guy who named Fedora 12.

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  2. Besides the name and the Desktop... by hey · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... which is always fun to talk about. Fedora is really pushing the state of Linux forward more than any other distro.
    systemd for faster boot and starter reactions to changes (eg USB device plugged in). Moving every thing to /usr to make the filesystem more sane.
    Single window gimp! And lots more.