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Fedora 17 Provides Potent Virtualization, Cloud Features and Enhanced Desktop and Developer Functionality

June 3, 2012 4:57 by Colin_Saldanha

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – May 30,2012– “I am extremely proud of the Fedora 17 release. The addition of projects such as oVirt and JBoss Application Server 7, enhancements in OpenStack, and continued support for fresh releases of desktop environments demonstrate the Fedora Project’s commitment to deliver rich features and capabilities,” said Robyn Bergeron, Fedora Project Leader. “This, combined with our leading-edge innovations at the operating-system level, truly makes Fedora 17 a comprehensive and robust operating system for all types of users.”

 

An abundance of feature enhancements in Fedora 17 include:

• Desktop Features: GNOME 3.4 introduces many user experience improvements, including new search capabilities in the Activities Overview, improved themes, and enhancements to the Documents and Contacts application; and GIMP 2.8, the newest version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), brings improvements such as single-window mode, layer groups, and on-canvas text editing.

 

• Cloud, Virtualization, and Performance Features: OpenStack, a collection of services that can be used to set up and run cloud compute and storage infrastructure, is updated to the latest release, 2012.1 (Essex); oVirt, an open virtualization platform, provides a feature-rich virtualization management system with robust capabilities for both hosts and guests; and the Cluster stack includes numerous and significant updates for both high availability and load balancing applications.

 

• Developer Features: JBoss Application Server 7 is a fast, lightweight Java EE-based application server, optimized for developing and launching Java EE applications; a pre-release of Juno, the release of the Eclipse SDK expected later this year; Java 7 (and OpenJDK7) is the default Java runtime and Java build toolset.

 

Upcoming FUD Cons are planned for August 23   25, 2012 in Valencia, Venezuela; October 13 – 15 in Paris, France; and January 18 – 20, 2013 in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.

 

Please visit www.fedoraproject.org.

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