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Among developers Fedora distribution discussion broke out on the distribution of transition “sliding” model updates, similar to that used in the distributions Arch, Gentoo, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
It is worth noting that at present there is a special Fedora repository for “moving” updates – Rawhide. But, according to developers, to always use this repository is almost unusable, as falling within a package are often unstable, and upgrade of critical components (such as kernel and system libraries) from Rawhide can simply bring the system inoperable and sometimes lead loss of data .
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Whenever you install a new OS, the next step is to optimize it to make it to our liking. There are tools for all distributions GNU / Linux, but in this case I speak of a very complete for Fedora .

Fedora Utils is a script that helps us to undertake the tasks of optimization and common maintenance. This utility allows the installation of codecs and additional software, troubleshoot, adjust and clean your system, see information and much more with just a few mouse clicks.
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We have among us the new version of this excellent distribution based on Red Hat , Fedora 16, which in this case carries the nickname “Verne”. As always, the community responsible for the development of Fedora brings the newest GNU / Linux, implemented in the best manner and always focused on ease of use of the distribution, both by the more experienced as the most novice.
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The open-source solutions provider Red Hat has announced that he now accepts applications for the Fedora Scholarship program. In the program, students may participate around the world that support the Fedora Project or other open-source project with contributions.

The Fedora Scholarship program this year goes into the fifth round.

Under the program each year a high school student who has received a contribution to the Fedora project and made his studies in the fall.

The scholarship is worth $ 2,000 annually and is paid over a period of four years. If the grant recipient will attend a FUDCon, Red Hat takes over for the duration of the scholarship for travel and accommodation expenses to the nearest event.

The scholarship is designed to encourage young people to use free software and support with contributions. “The Fedora Scholarship recognizes young talent in their quest for innovation. Hir hope to encourage future technologists and to encourage open development “, so Jared Smith, employee and Fedora project leader at Red Hat.
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After a year working in the Linux distribution with Fuduntu 14:12 Release has been on its own legs.

What started as a fork of Fedora 14 is now independent and can be built with its own tool chain (self-hosting), write the blog entry Fuduntu-makers in the new release. The most important changes in version 3.0.7 include kernel and X.org 14:12 1.11.1, bringing support for new hardware. In addition brings the licensed distribution packages from Adobe and Flash Fluendos MP3 codec.
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Red Hat’s Fedora community Linux is released in version 16, code-named “Verne”.

While the nickname on the French author Jules Verne refers to developers, the new version specifically dedicated to the recently deceased inventor of Unix, Dennis Ritchie.

Fedora 16 comes with Gnome 3.2 and KDE 4.7 fresh versions of desktop environments. The system also kernel 3.1 and put Grub second The Ext-4 driver is new in Fedora for the file systems Ext 2 and 3 charge. The developers SysVinit some scripts have to be ported to version 15 introduced Systemd init system.
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The designation of Fedora 17 as “Beefy Miracle” has caused some misunderstanding among the developers of. The majority of selected code name Beefy Miracle goes back to a kind of insider joke, which is regarded by many as a member Fedora childish.

Fedora traditionally follows with its code name of the requirement that the future is in connection with its predecessor. In the case of Beefy Miracle have the fans behind it connecting to Fedora 16 “Verne” made easy: Verne was a proposal for Fedora 16 was beefy and Miracle also.
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The beta for the upcoming Fedora 16 release will be released a week later than planned on 4 October 2011.

The Adam Williamson writes about the Fedora quality assurance in his blog. The F16 Beta Go / No-Go meeting of the project on 21 September still some bugs as blockers for the beta release of classified:
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The Fedora developers Daiki Ueno has released its on-screen keyboard Eekboard in the first stable version 1.0.

After a lengthy self-test on their Tablet PC Daiki has made some changes to the on-screen keyboard to make it more user friendly.

Among other things, the user may now slip of the fingers of a wrong button at the right, without triggering a false keystroke. By prolonged contact with a number of attacks can be triggered.
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The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora project has released an early test version of the upcoming version 16 of the Linux distribution. The switch to Grub 2 is one of the innovations.

The GRUB 2 is only for x86 systems, the default in the next releases will he come for all supported architectures are used.

Fedora also takes final farewell on the other hand the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), which was entrained in the previous versions yet. Udisks, upower libudev and finally take over the mediation devices for software that previously relied more on HAL.
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