With each new release Fedora expands technological borders. Fedora is well known for bringing cutting edge technologies into the hands of the general public. Release Announcement: Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release about every six months. We bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 12! Join us and share the joy of Free software and the community with friends and family. We have several major new features with special focus on desktops, netbooks, virtualization and system administration.

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From this page you may obtain either the 32 or 64 bit DVD. If you are unsure get the 32 bit version which will work on both 32 bit and 64 bit PCs. Although a 64 bit operating system can provide better performance under most circumstances, unless being used for heavy graphics editing or in a heavily used production server, there is generally little if any perceivable performance difference. In instances where Windows drivers may be required via ndiswrapper, 64 bit driver s may be unavailable. This does not apply to the PPC version.

 

Name	Summary
Abrt 1.0	The tool to help non-power users with bug reporting, making it as easy as a few mouse clicks
Anaconda MDRaid	Use mdraid instead of dmraid for certain BIOS-RAID types (currently only Intel BIOS-RAID using imsm meta-data).
Better Webcam Support	Add support for more Webcams
DisplayPort	Enhanced support for DisplayPort in X and kernel drivers for Intel hardware
Dracut	Dracut is a replacement for nash/mkinitrd
Eclipse Call Graph	Graphically displays the call hierarchy from executing a C/C++ binary, along with various other runtime statistics.
Empathy	Set Empathy as the default IM client
FCoE	Add Fibre Channel over Ethernet support to anaconda's storage code
Fedora Studio	Classify multimedia applications into subgroups for easy access
GFS2 Clustered Samba	Support for clustered samba (including active/active configuration) over GFS2 using CTDB
Gnome2.28	Re-base to GNOME 2.28
KDE 4.3	Rebase to KDE 4.3 and offer new features such as DeviceKit support
KSM	Allow KVM guest virtual machines to share identical memory pages
KVM Huge Page Backed Memory	Enable KVM guests to use huge page backed memory in order to reduce memory consumption and improve performance by reducing CPU cache pressure
KVM NIC Hotplug	Allow the addition of a guest network interface (NIC) a guest virtual machine without needing to restart the guest.
KVM qcow2 Performance	Improve the I/O performance of virtual machines using disk images in the qcow2 image format
KVM Stable Guest ABI	Allow guest virtual machines to be presented with the same ABI across QEMU upgrades.
libguestfs	Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images
liblvm	Add liblvm, a userspace library for application interface to LVM
Lower Process Capabilities	This feature will lower the capabilities of all root daemons and many setuid apps. File and directory permissions may be reworked to require DAC_OVERRIDE for any system update
Mobile Broadband Enhancements	Extended support of mobile broadband cards in NetworkManager, including display of signal strength when connected, network scanning, network selection, etc.
NetBeans_6.7	Re-base to NetBeans 6.7
NetworkManagerIPv6	Add full IPv6 support to NetworkManager.
NetworkManager System Connections	Add full support for system-wide connections to NetworkManager.
Open Shared Root	The open sharedroot project provides abilities to boot multiple linux systems with the same root filesystem providing a single system filesystem based cluster.
PolicyKit 1.0	PolicyKit provides a flexible framework for granting users access to privileged operations. It is meant to replace the old userhelper approach, and overcome some of its shortcomings. PolicyKit 1.0 addresses architectural shortcomings of the initial PolicyKit design.
Power Management F12	improve and extend the functionality of tuned, merge it with ktune from RHEL 5 and introduce a new and easy way to switch between various predefined and extendible tuning settings for your system
Fedora Moblin	Add support to Fedora for the Moblin Core NetBook/NetTop/MID desktop environment
Virtual Network Interface Management	Provide tools to easily set up commonly used network configurations, like bridges, bonds, vlan's and sensible combinations thereof, in particular for virtualized hosts.
PackageKitBrowserPlugin	The PackageKit browser plugin allows people browsing online to install missing applications
PackageKitCommandNotFound	The PackageKit command not found functionality allows command line users to automatically install missing commands, or to suggest spelling replacements
Rakudo Perl 6	Rakudo is an implementation of the Perl 6 specification for the Parrot virtual machine
SR-IOV	Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a PCI feature which allows virtual functions (VF) to be created that share the resources of a physical function (PF)
Systemtap Tracing Refresh	New and improved systemtap with much better documentation, examples and tools. Updated to take advantage of modern gcc debuginfo (dwarf) output, kernel tracepoints.
Thusnelda	Update libtheora to the 1.1 release
Virt Privileges	Improve security by adjusting the privileges of QEMU processes managed by libvirt. Also, allow KVM to be used by unprivileged users
VirtgPXE	Replace the deprecated etherboot pxe booting infrastructure with the more modern and currently upstream supported gpxe.
Virt Storage Management	Enable VM hosts to discover new SAN storage, issue NPIV operations and do basic configuration of multipath devices
Volume Control Continued
XI2	XI2 is the second major release of the X Input Extension and allows the simultaneous use of multiple independent input devices.
XZ Rpm Payloads	Switch RPM to use XZ (the new LZMA format) as default payload compression
x86 Support	Changing the base architecture to i686 and optimizing for current 32-bit processors

 

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