Download Fedora 17

The Linux distribution Fedora has arrived at version 17. Fedora is the non-commercial successor to Red Hat Linux, which has been targeting the enterprise market since 2003 as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora ships with Gnome by default, but versions with KDE, Xfce, or LXDE are also available. The main improvements made in version 17 ‘Beefy Miracle’ can be found below.

The following are major features for Fedora 17:

• GNOME 3.4 and KDE 4.8

• OpenStack, Eucalyptus, CloudStack and Open Nebula

• ICC profiles for color printing and an improved gimp

• Still more virtualization improvements.

For more details about other features that are included in Fedora 17 refer to their individual wiki pages that detail feature goals and progress here.