Cambridge (F-10) Beta release announcement

Fedora 10 Beta: Cambridge's foundations are laid

Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

There is also a Beta contest! Test five things in the Beta that are important to you as a user. If you find a bug *and* report it, you get the free attention of a package maintainer on a problem personally important to you!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&amp;version=rawhide

Do your part to make Fedora 10 that much better.

Among the new, fun, and interesting features:


 * New NetworkManager with connection sharing
 * Improved printer handling
 * Remote virtualization and easier virt storage
 * Sectool, an auditing and security testing framework
 * RPM 4.6, the first big RPM change in several years

... and more ...


 * New version of PackageKit for managing software, with more fixes and enhancements (which benefits all distributions)
 * New version of PulseAudio (which benefits all distributions)
 * Kernel 2.6.27, including better support for WiFi
 * Better support for the EFI for Apple Macintosh hardware
 * Faster graphical start-up by Plymouth, replacing the venerable RHGB
 * Better support for webcams through the hard work in kernel 2.6.27 (which benefits all distributions)
 * New icon theme "Echo", to be completed with the theme graphic "Solar" in the Fedora 10 release
 * Gnome 2.24
 * KDE 4.1
 * Adding the NetBeans IDE
 * Eclipse 3.4
 * Automatic installation of multimedia codecs
 * Better HDTV support in X.org
 * "Sugar" graphical environment (from OLPC) available for use, testing, and development

A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList

For release information, including common and known bugs, please see our release notes:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Beta/ReleaseNotes