It's about time a distribution gets a Greek codename! And Fedora 11 is entitled "Λεονίδας"<img goomoji="B06" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:B06@goomoji.gmail"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_I" class="image" title="Statue of King Leonidas of Sparta"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Leonidas_statue1b.jpg/300px-Leonidas_statue1b.jpg" class="thumbimage" border="0" height="257" width="300"></a> </div> Among the thousands of users that follow and use Fedora in their everyday home or office desktop (or server), they are considered one of the few "fronts" that support free software and are always (or most of the time) one step ahead of Ubuntu (in my opinion), when it comes to using the newest, shiniest, top-of-the-line software. <img goomoji="327" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:327@goomoji.gmail"> Fedora 11 has been improved in the following areas: * software management * sound * improves key virtualization components * introduces Fedora Community, a portal project beta <a href="http://press.redhat.com/2009/06/09/fedora-11-rapid-innovation-available-today/">press.redhat.com</a> went ahead and recorded more changes: * New fingerprint reader support that makes biometric support easy and well-integrated * Automatic font and mimetype installation that downloads support as needed for foreign-language documents and other content types * New IBus input method system that makes it easy to switch locales without having to restart a session * Improved kernel modesetting features for more video cards, including many models of Intel, ATI and NVidia * Support for the latest filesystems like ext4, with much higher device and file size limits, and faster consistency checking * Improved virtualization features such as a more flexible and interactive console, and a rewritten VM creation wizard * MinGW cross-compiler tool set for creating Windows executables using the Fedora distribution Moreover: * GCC 4.4 * Python 2.6 as default * NetBeans 6.5 The announcement: <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/">http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/</a> <a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2009/fedora11.html">http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2009/fedora11.html</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00006.html">https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00006.html</a> Download CDs/DVDs: <a href="http://get.fedoraproject.org/">http://get.fedoraproject.org/</a> Mirrors: <a href="http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/11/">http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/11/</a> Torrents: <a href="http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/">http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/</a> Still here? Go, go, go! <img goomoji="347" style="margin: 0pt 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle;" src="cid:347@goomoji.gmail">