Fedora 11: Leonidas Roars for Attention

A 20-second boot, Ext4 as default filesystem, Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3.0, OpenOffice.org 3.1, Delta RPM support, better support for fingerprint readers, automatic fonts and mime installer… Well, these were some of the 50 odd features listed on the project website when the Fedora 11 development was taking shape. The good news is, when the final release was out, the status for all these listed features was 100 per cent. Impressive, eh?

Naturally, the next step was to head over to fedoraproject.org and download the ISO. As is the norm with any other distro, Fedora 11 (codenamed Leonardo Leonidas) comes as an installable DVD, or live CDs of various spins, including GNOME and KDE. I chose GNOME (for a change), because features such as automatic codec and mime installation are reportedly GNOME-only for this release. Talk about treating KDE as your step child ;-)