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A command line view of IT



Red Hat Fedora 11 Linux hits beta. Hail Leonidas!

By Sean Michael Kerner on March 31, 2009 9:29 AM
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From the 'tonight we dine on Linux' files:

Red Hat's Fedora community Linux distribution is out today with its first beta for the Fedora 11 -codenamed Leonidas - release. At the top of the feature list for this new distro is something that all users will notice, namely faster boot times -- specifically a claim for a 20 second startup. Faster startup is a key goal for Linux distros this release season, Ubuntu Jaunty which should be out at the end of April, also features a faster startup.

Fedora is also aiming to have the new ext4 Linux filesystem as the default for new Fedora 11 installations, which will not only aid boot times but performance of the distro overall. Fedora 11 could well be the first mainstream Linux distro to include ext4 as its default filesystem with this release -- Ubuntu Jaunty does include ext4 but it is not the default at this point (ext3 is).

Typically Fedora is a distro that isn't too concerned about Microsoft Windows, but Fedora 11 does include at least one key Windows development feature called the Windows Cross-compiler.  According to Fedora's project description Windows Cross-compiler will enable users to, "build and test full-featured Windows programs, from the comfort of the Fedora system, without needing to use Windows."

The final Fedora 11 release is currently scheduled to be released by Red Hat at the end of May.

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David Legg said:

If we could persuade all Windows developers who wish their software to develop it inside the 'Windows Cross-compiler' environment, that would make their code automatically portable. They could develop it for Linux and Windows in parallel, on the same platform, at the same time, without having to reboot or move to another machine etc. etc. Wonder if it will catch on?

April 1, 2009 4:27 AM
J.A. Watson said:

Have you actually installed the Fedora 11 Beta release? I have tried, and failed, on four different computers now. I am generally a fan of Fedora, and I realize that this is still a Beta release, but I'm surprised that it could be this much trouble, unless I'm doing something terribly wrong. So I'm curious if others have successfully installed it.

April 1, 2009 7:42 AM
Leslie Satenstein said:

Downloaded the Live CD, did a media verify and a boot.

Almost everything was perfect. The only problem I have is with X. The users "~/.config/monitor.xml" file is the same as Fedora 10s, but the graphical output is not.

In F11, the screen image is shifted to the left, but perfectly ok with F10 and Ubuntu (all versions).

The latter the X release, the poorer the CRT support.

Monitor is a NEC MultiSync E1100+ (about 20 inches diag) Resolution 1600 x 1200 (4/3 ratio).

Still testing the rest of the stuff.

April 1, 2009 10:21 PM

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