The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc.- sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, has announced the availability of Fedora 15, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution.
Fedora 15 provides a range of notable enhancements. GNOME 3 Desktop brings a fresh look and feel with GNOME shell and, according to the Fedora Project, Fedora is the first major distribution to include GNOME 3. In addition to the visible changes, there are also many changes under the surface such as the move from CORBA-based technologies to D-Bus-based successors.
Also in this release, SystemD replaces SysVinit and Upstart as the default system and session manager in Fedora 15. SystemD was designed to more effectively handle the start-up and management of system daemons, and provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, among other things.
In addition, Consistent Network Device Naming makes it easier for systems administrators to effectively determine which physical network port is connected to a Linux network device.
A complete list of Fedora 15 features is available from the Fedora community. The Fedora Project aims to release a new complete version of its free operating system approximately every 6 months. For more information on Fedora 15, to download the distribution, or to join this community effort, visit www.fedoraproject.org.