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| =Fedora 18 Beta release, "Spherical Cow," now available=
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| The Fedora Project team is excited to announce the beta release of its free, fully functional
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| Linux operating system, Fedora 18, code-named “Spherical Cow.” Fedora continues to enable users
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| to experience the latest in free and open source technology, integrated into a Linux distribution
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| and ready for free download, use, modification and redistribution.
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| The Fedora Project worldwide community works to advance the cause of software freedom. These
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| contributors hail from a variety of industries and educational backgrounds, and are dedicated to
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| creating a vibrant, growing community to advance free and open source software. The most
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| anticipated result of this community is the Fedora distribution itself, the open operating system
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| released by the project approximately every six months. Each Fedora release represents the
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| culmination of work by hundreds of engineers and thousands of contributors from many different
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| locations and many different walks of life.
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| New releases of Fedora represent the upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the enterprise
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| operating platform delivered by Red Hat that includes ongoing support and a broad certified
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| ecosystem. Fedora serves as a community research and development lab, where code changes and
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| innovations often form the basis for other Red Hat open source projects. While not every alteration
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| will make it from Fedora to the corresponding release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora’s role
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| as a rapidly moving platform for future development allows it to provide important,
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| community-driven updates.
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| Software enthusiasts are encouraged to download the beta release of Fedora 18, take it for a test
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| drive and help identify items that need attention before Fedora 18 is delivered for general
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| availability. With the beta release, the software is relatively stable, but real-world use and
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| reports from users helps identify any lingering bugs so they can be addressed before it is more
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| widely distributed.
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| Explore what’s new in the Fedora 18 beta, including these highlighted release features:
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| ===For users everywhere===
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| Fedora 18 offers a brand-new version of the Gnome desktop, version 3.6, straight from the upstream
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| development process. Updates have also been made to the KDE, XFCE and Sugar desktop environments;
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| additionally, the MATE desktop is available for the first time in Fedora.
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| Fedora's new installer user interface enhances the anaconda installer with improvements in ease of
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| use and installation.
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| ===For developers===
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| This release includes several language updates, including the move to Perl 5.16, updating the
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| Python 3 stack from 3.2 to 3.3, Rails 3.2 and updated D and Haskell programming environments.
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| ===For system administrators===
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| Fedora 18 includes the final release of Samba 4, and can be used on an Active Directory domain out
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| of the box. An integrated, new native management software allows you to access data and server
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| information easily.
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| OpenStack in Fedora 18 has been updated to Folsom, the most recent release by the OpenStack
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| community. This Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform enables the creation and management of
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| cloud infrastructure.
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| Eucalyptus 3.1, another IaaS platform, is available in Fedora for the first time, and includes the
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| major components of Eucalyptus.
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| Storage System Management CLI tools simplify the user interface by providing unified abstraction
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| and interface for multiple storage technologies, including lvm, btrfs and md raid.
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| [http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease Download the Fedora 18 beta] and please give us your feedback. The final release of Fedora 18
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| is expected later in the year.
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