Fedora Fourteen Amongst Cloud In Addition To Virtualization Features

Fedora 14, or "Laughlin," made its official debut on Tuesday, together with it's packed alongside a raft of novel features designed to heighten the sense for users of the opened upward origin desktop operating system.


Usability has been a cardinal focus inwards the past times few releases of Red Hat-sponsored Fedora, which is the minute almost pop Linux distribution, behind exclusively Ubuntu, according to DistroWatch. Significant improvements inwards networking, software management, hardware support, together with other functionality remove keep resulted, together with then much of the piece of job on this latest unloosen has concentrated instead on providing põrnikas fixes together with increased stability.

In improver to an improved desktop environment, however, Fedora fourteen also features enhancements including "libjpegturbo," a library that brings noticeable surgical physical care for improvements to users who charge together with salve images inwards the pop JPEG format. The library "practically halves processing fourth dimension on almost systems," the software's makers say--even users on older hardware, inwards fact, volition run across a speed improvement.

Also included inwards Laughlin is SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment), a framework for desktop virtualization designed to render an enhanced remote desktop experience. Users of desktop virtualization tin straight off bask sound, display together with device back upward every bit good every bit rudimentary back upward for accelerated 2D graphics together with encryption.

Fedora users on netbooks together with other modest devices, meanwhile, gain a improve sense alongside Laughlin thank you lot to its inclusion of a subset of MeeGo.

Available on EC2

Fedora fourteen is also the commencement of many successive releases of the distribution to hold upward available on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing environment. As a result, systems administrators tin straight off drive out the leading-edge features of Fedora fourteen inwards the cloud, providing a sneak preview at what may come upward to downstream distributions such every bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) inwards the future.

Support for Intel's IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) remote server management software, on the other hand, makes it easier for systems admins to support, deal together with administer hardware from afar, alongside additional capabilities similar Serial-over-LAN together with identity LED manipulation.

Then there's Fedora 14's exercise of the novel systemd, a next-generation organisation initialization together with session management daemon that volition ultimately supervene upon Upstart together with System V init. Users of this characteristic tin sense improvements such every bit parallel together with on-demand starting of services, faster kick times together with the mightiness to rail processes, daemons together with sockets, or fifty-fifty remove keep snapshots of a organisation state, according to the Fedora team.

Another characteristic assists inwards the slowly migration of Xen virtual machines to KVM virtual machines, piece Apache has been updated alongside a position out of module together with safety fixes.

New Debugging Tools

For developers, Fedora fourteen offers a bevy of improved debugging tools inwards GDB, its GNU debugger, which comes consummate alongside a novel Python scripting feature. Python 2.7 is included, every bit is Rakudo Star, an implementation of Perl 6. Fedora fourteen also offers back upward for the D programming language, which combines the mightiness of languages such every bit C together with C++ alongside the programmer productivity of modern languages similar Ruby together with Python.

Named afterward Nobel Laureate together with physicist Robert Laughlin, Fedora fourteen runs version 2.6.35 of the Linux kernel. GNOME 2.32 is its default desktop environment, merely KDE 4.5 is available every bit well. The distribution tin hold upward downloaded for 32- together with 64-bit systems from the project's site. The adjacent release, Fedora 15, is scheduled for unloosen inwards Apr 2011.

All inwards all, Fedora fourteen looks to hold upward a venture novel unloosen alongside numerous compelling features that come inwards good worth a closer look.

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