Fedora team promises to bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 12! Many things are really changed and improved. Fedora 12 also brings lots of new packages. Here is some highlights from Fedora 12 new stuff Optimized performance – 32-bit architecture software packages have been compiled with special optimization for the Intel Atom processors without losing compatibility with the overwhelming majority of CPUs. Smaller and faster updates – Fedora 12 uses yum-presto plugin as default. So update manager download only changes for packages. Improvements for graphics support – Introduces experimental 3D support for AMD Radeon HD 2400 and later graphics cards. To try it out, install the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. Better support for systems with multiple monitors. Bluetooth on-demand – Bluetooth services are automatically started when needed and stopped 30 seconds after last device use, reducing initial startup time and resource use when Bluetooth is not in active use. Better webcam support – Fedora 12 you can expect even better video quality, especially for less expensive webcams. Next-generation (Ogg) Theora video – Theora videos now deliver much better quality primarily via enhancements in the encoder without any change in the format Automatic reporting of crashes and SELinux issues – Abrt, a tool to help non-power users report crashes to Bugzilla with a few mouse clicks, is now enabled by default. And some higlights of new programs and packages on Fedora 12 Gnome 2.28 – Latest Gnome desktop release KDE 4.3 – Latest KDE desktop release Abrt – Tool for easy bug reporting Empathy – Default IM client Fedora Studio – Classify multimedia applications into subgroups for easy access NetBeans 6.7 – Latest NetBeans IDE Eclipse Galileo – Latest Eclipse Galileo Perl 6 PHP 5.3 Open Shared Root – Provides abilities to boot multiple linux systems with the same root filesystem GFS2 Clustered Samba – Support for clustered samba (including active/active configuration) over GFS2 using CTDB Here is Fedora 12 full release notes.

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Fedora 13 is released. This is overview, what’s new features found on new Fedora 13 release. Main Software Updates, Changes and Features New Software Shotwell – Open source photo manager for GNOME Deja-dup – Déjà Dup (day-ja-doop) is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of doing backups the Right Way (encrypted, off-site, and regular) and uses duplicity as the backend. Pino – Twitter and Identi.ca client for Linux desktop Simple Scan – Simple Scanning Utility New Software Versions

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Fedora 14 codename Laughlin is coming soon (2010-11-02) and Fedora 14 Beta final version is available very soon (2010-09-28). Check also Fedora 14 Install Guide or upgrade Fedora 13 to Fedora 14. I have done some testing with Fedora 14 (Alpha, Beta RC1 and Beta RC2) on my laptop and everything works smoothly. Soon I will revise all this blog Fedora guides and software installation instructions and update them to work with Fedora 14 Laughlin.