Rilasciata la versione beta di Fedora 16

This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free software. Examples include:

• Cloud Updates. Fedora now includes a number of new and improved features to support cloud computing, includingHekaFS, a "cloud ready" version of GlusterFS, including additional auth*/crypto/multi-tenancy; pacemaker-cloud, application service high availability in a cloud environment; and IaaS implementations such as Aeolus andOpenStack.

• Virtualization. Once again Fedora raises the bar on virtualization support, including expanded virtual network support, an improved Spice for managing virtual machines, restored Xen support, a new virtual machine lock manager, and improved ability to browse guest file systems.

• System Boot. Fedora 16 introduces GRUB2, the long-awaited next-generation boot-loader for Linux. GRUB2 automatically recognizes other operating systems, supports LVM2 and LUKS partitions, and is more customizable than the previous version. In this release, only x86 systems with a BIOS uses GRUB2 by default. Work is ongoing for making GRUB2 the default for other architectures and systems.

• Services Management. Fedora 15 introduced the Systemd services management program. This release features better integration of Systemd via conversion to native systemd services from legacy init scripts in many software components -- for desktop users, this means faster boot times; for system administrators it means more powerful management of services.

• Desktop Updates. The two major desktop environments have been updated to the latest releases: KDE Software Compilation 4.7 and GNOME 3.1 development release. GNOME 3.2 is available in the updates testing repository, enabled by default in this release.

• System Accounts. Fedora now standardizes on login.defs as authority for UID/GID space allocation, and has moved boundary between system and user accounts from 500 to 1000 to match conventions followed by several other Linux distributions. Upgrading from a existing release will not be affected by this change and you can use kickstart to override this change during installation if necessary.

• Developer Improvements. Developers get many goodies with Verne, including updated Ada, Haskell and Perlenvironments, a new Python plugin for GCC and a number of new and improved APIs.

La lista completa delle nuove features è disponibile a questa pagina. Download della versione beta di Fedora 16 da questa pagina.

Il team di sviluppo di Fedora ha rilasciato la prima alpha di Fedora 15, nome in codice 'Lovelock'.

This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free software. Examples include:

• Updated Desktop Environments. Fedora 15 will ship with GNOME 3, the next major version of the GNOME desktop. If you're interested in other experiences, KDE and Xfce will also be showcasing the latest and greatest in desktop technology from their respective projects.
• System and session management. Previously available as a technology preview in F14, systemd makes its full-fledged debut in Fedora 15. systemd is a smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing the background daemons relied on by services we all use every day - such as NetworkManager and PulseAudio.
• Cloud. Looking to create appliances for use in the Cloud? BoxGrinder creates appliances (virtual machines) for various platforms (KVM, Xen, EC2) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms.
• Updated programming languages and tools. Fedora 15 features new versions of Rails, OCaml, and Python. GDB and GCC have also been updated. (Fedora 15 was built with GCC 4.6.0, too!)
• Productivity Applications. LibreOffice is filled with tools for everyday use, including word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications.
• Consistent Network Device Naming. Server management just got even easier. Fedora 15 uses BIOS-provided, non-arbitrarily given names for network ports, taking the burden off of system administrators.
• Dynamic Firewall. Fedora 15 adds support for the optional firewall daemon, that provides a dynamic firewall management with a D-Bus interface.
• Ecryptfs in Authconfig. Fedora 15 brings in improved support for eCryptfs, a stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. Starting with Fedora 15, authconfig can be used to automatically mount a private encrypted part of the home directory when a user logs in.
• DNSSEC for workstations. NetworkManager now uses the BIND nameserver as a DNSSEC resolver. All received DNS responses are proved to be correct. If particular domain is signed and failed to validate then resolver returns SERFVAIL instead of invalidated response, which means something is wrong.

Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina. Download a partire da questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link
Fedora-15-Alpha-i686-Live-Desktop.iso (567MB, torrent),
Fedora-15-Alpha-i686-Live-KDE.iso (667MB, torrent)
Fedora-15-Alpha-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso (568MB, torrent),
Fedora-15-Alpha-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso (666MB, torrent).

Appena una settimana dopo il rilascio della seconda beta, Oracle ha rilasciato la terza beta di VirtualBox 4.0. Download possibile da questa pagina.

The following items were added/fixed since VirtualBox 4.0.0 Beta 2:

• Solaris hosts: another fix for installing ExtPacks on Solaris
• Solaris hosts: properly register mime types
• GUI: fixed a crash if maximizing a guest window is not allowed
• GUI: remember recent mounted mediums
• GUI: fixed additions mounting
• GUI: added hint how to get out of the scale mode
• GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts (bug #5449)
• GUI: allow to update / downgrade / reinstall ExtPacks
• 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering for some d3d8/9 apps
• 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for 32bit apps on 64bit Windows XP SP2
• 3D support: fixed installation on Linux without DKMS
• 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for libMesa 7.9
• VGA: fixed crash when booting VMs with older additions
• OVA: allow individual files greater 8GB
• Storage: performance optimization by not using our own block cache for read-only mediums
• BIOS: implemented multi-sector reading, speeds up booting of certain guests (e.g. Solaris)
• VMM: fixed FreeBSD 8.1 boot hang for unrestricted guest execution with VT-x
• VMM: fixed performance regression for 32-bit SMP guests (VT-x + nested paging)
• VMM: fixed performance regression (VT-x with preemption timer only)
• VMM: improved fix for blocking NMIs triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug  #7819)
• User Manual: Windows help file (.chm) is searchable again
• Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guests (4.0.0 Beta 1 regression)
• Solaris Additions: fixed guest X11 drivers
• Solaris Additions: fixed unexpected termination of VBoxService
• Linux Additions: fixed xorg.conf patching for older Linux (3.2.12 regression)