Some moments ago, fedora projects have announced the Alpha version of Fedora 16. Its available downloading and testing. Fedora 16 Alpha is powered by Linux kernel 3.0. fedora projects gropu announced, “We need your help to make Fedora 16 the best release yet, so please take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working.”group requests,”If you find a bug, please report it — every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid distribution.”
Some main Feaures are given below
- Linux kernel 3.0
- The GNOME 3.1 desktop environment
- KDE Software Compilation 4.7
- GRUB2
- Systemd services management
- SELinux improvements
- 1000 System accounts
- Added Chrony NTP client
- Removed HAL
- Removed ConsoleKit
- Automatic Multi-seat support
- Support for cloud computing
- libvirt networking support improvements
- New mkdumprd for kdump
- Perl 5.14
- Static analysis of CPython extensions
- Sugar 0.94
- TigerVNC 1.1
- USB Network Redirection.
- Restored support for Xen
- Enhanced Spice 0.10 app to manage virtual machines
- Many improvements for developers
- Aeolus Conductor
- Blender 2.5
- Boost 1.47
- Glasgow Haskell Compiler 7.0.4
- Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1
- GNOME Input integration
You can download this release but not use it on commercial production machine because it is alpha testing version and may have many bugs.
