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The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project today officially released the Fedora 13 Linux distribution, codenamed "Goddard," with improvements aimed at both new and experienced Linux users.
The new Fedora 13 release comes six months after Fedora 12's debut and continues to enhance the Linux operating system experience for its users. Fedora 13 includes improved virtualization, along with other developer, desktop and server improvements.
"We have a number of features designed to make Fedora a more pleasant release for everyone that uses it, not just the super hackers among us, but also the people that are just discovering open source for the first time, and everyone in between," Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields told InternetNews.com.
In particular, Frields cited hardware enablements as a "consistent theme" in the Fedora 13 release. Chief among those include improved free video, printer, scanner and camera drivers and management features. Frields also noted that the new color management feature in Fedora 13 provides a true-color workflow for scanning, printing and display.
"All the improvements are grouped around making hardware work better for people with a minimum of fuss," he said.
Fedora 13 also packs in improvements for a group that Frields referred to as "downstream" developers.
"When we say 'upstream' in the open source world, the people we think of are those that are building open source software that distributions like Fedora then download and package as part of a whole operating system," Frields said. "Downstream developers are people that are building solutions that may not have anything to do with Fedora or Linux, but who are very important to the future of free software."
The downstream-focused improvements in Fedora 13 includes enhancements to how the Linux distribution handles Python development, with new support for the open source language intended to make Python debugging easier for developers.
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The new Fedora 13 release comes six months after Fedora 12's debut and continues to enhance the Linux operating system experience for its users. Fedora 13 includes improved virtualization, along with other developer, desktop and server improvements.
"We have a number of features designed to make Fedora a more pleasant release for everyone that uses it, not just the super hackers among us, but also the people that are just discovering open source for the first time, and everyone in between," Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields told InternetNews.com.
In particular, Frields cited hardware enablements as a "consistent theme" in the Fedora 13 release. Chief among those include improved free video, printer, scanner and camera drivers and management features. Frields also noted that the new color management feature in Fedora 13 provides a true-color workflow for scanning, printing and display.
"All the improvements are grouped around making hardware work better for people with a minimum of fuss," he said.
Fedora 13 also packs in improvements for a group that Frields referred to as "downstream" developers.
"When we say 'upstream' in the open source world, the people we think of are those that are building open source software that distributions like Fedora then download and package as part of a whole operating system," Frields said. "Downstream developers are people that are building solutions that may not have anything to do with Fedora or Linux, but who are very important to the future of free software."
The downstream-focused improvements in Fedora 13 includes enhancements to how the Linux distribution handles Python development, with new support for the open source language intended to make Python debugging easier for developers.
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