Fedora 8 GNU/Linux - Werewolf

Fedora is the community-based distribution that replaced the old official Red Hat CD sets. New software gets tried out here before finding its way into Red Hat Enterprise editions, making Fedora the cutting edge of the Red Hat world.

Fedora 8, or 'Werewolf', is the very latest in the Fedora series, and marks a high point. It is a community-based release and features thousands of software packages. See the Release Notes .

• Fedora 8 DVD
• Fedora 8 Live CD GNOME
• Fedora 8 Live CD KDE
• Fedora 8 Source DVD
• Fedora 8 Set of CDs and DVDs

As with Fedora 7, Red Hat have followed Ubuntu in releasing different flavours of Fedora. There are:

• Full DVD's, equivalent to previous releases, giving a choice of Desktop, Workstation and Server installs.
• Live single CD images, which are bootable and can be installed to your hard drive. They are available with either GNOME or KDE desktops.
• Rescue CD's
• A source DVD, with all the source packages.

We don't know if Red Hat consulted our retired PM, but they've called these different flavours 'spins'.

Highlights of Fedora 8

• GNOME 2.20, KDE 3.5.8 and Xfce 4.4.1 Desktops
• OpenOffice.org 2.3, with new features
• CodecBuddy gives improved access to multimedia content
• Network Manager 0.7 gives improved wireless networking
• Linux 2.6.23 kernel
• New Infinity look and feel
• Improved Bluetooth support
• CompizFusion gives exciting desktop effects
• IcedTea open source Java environment
• Improved proactive security features, including Kiosk functionality
• Improved power management with tickless kernel
• Choice of KVM, Xen and qEmu virtualisation