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Fedora 12 Available For Download
11:30AM Kevin Purdy | All platforms: The final release of Fedora’s 12th edition, code-named Constantine, is available for download. Want much better Bluetooth, the latest network and chat apps, and CPU and graphics efficiencies? Grab a live CD or USB image and give it a go. More »
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Fedora 12 Beta Available For Download
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | All platforms: Fedora’s released a bootable beta of their upcoming 12th release, “Constantine”, that speeds up system updates, makes Bluetooth an on-demand service, and optimises CPU and graphics performance on netbooks, among other improvements. More »
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Fedora 11 Released And Ready For Download
5:30AM Adam Pash | The popular Linux distribution Fedora (you know, the one that isn’t Ubuntu) has just released a new major version, Fedora 11, around six-and-a-half months after the release of Fedora 10. The changelog is extensive, but the result is an alluring operating system. More »
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Build Your Own Linux Distribution With Revisor
11:15PM Kevin Purdy | Find yourself making the same customisations over and over again every time you install a Linux system? Revisor, a free distribution customizer, lets you pick the packages and tweaks you want to see kept in, then compiles and compresses it all into a CD, DVD, or USB-friendly ISO image for you to install or live-boot with. PC Plus has a step-by-step guide to using Revisor on Fedora, but you can compile nearly any type of desktop with this tool. [PC Plus]
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Ubuntu 8.10 And Fedora 10 Eerily Close On Speed
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | The team at the Phoronix site benchmark tested the newly-released Fedora 10 Linux distribution against Ubuntu 8.10 on 32 and 64-bit machines, and found the results nearly identical. Interesting find, and nice to know it’s really the features and interface that sets most Linux distros apart these days. More »
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Fedora 10 Officially Released, Ready For Download
5:30AM Adam Pash | Fedora has just released version 10 of the popular Linux distribution. It’s only been six months since Fedora 9 hit servers, but the new release boasts all sorts of new features and improvements, including the addition of OpenOffice 3.0, new virtualisation features, internet connection sharing, faster booting, and a new security tool. Hit the Fedora 10 release notes for a full rundown of what you can expect. We tend to focus more on Ubuntu Linux, which has caught the attention of a lot of Linux users, but Fedora’s breakneck updates and new look and features since version 9 look great. Keep reading for a quick look at Fedora 10 in action. More »
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Battle Of The Linux Distros
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | digg_skin = 'compact';digg_bgcolor = '#F8FAF0';digg_url = 'http://digg.com/linux_unix/Lifehacker_Faceoff_Battle_of_the_Linux_Distros'; In theory, any computer running Linux can be custom-built and tweaked down to the very last bit. In reality, a first-time Linux user wants to grab an install CD, get a working desktop, and do their own thing from there. Lots of Linux distributions make claims about being easy to use, fast, or stable, but what does that mean for a non-programmer trying out a Linux system for the first time? Today we’re taking a look at the real differences between three popular distributions of open-source software, and offering our readers their chance to weigh in on why they like their own particular open-source OS. More »
