Fedora 13 (Goddard) Officially Released Today
May 25th, 2010 by Fuad NAHDI Categories: FedoraTags: Fedora, Fedora 13 Goddard, Linux, Zarafa Open Source
Fedora 13 a.k.a Goddard (click to enlarge)
The Fedora Project pleased to announced that Fedora 13 a.k.a Goddard has been released today.
As always, Fedora continues to develop (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions) and integrate the latest free and open source software (http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features). The following sections provide a brief overview of major changes from the last release of Fedora.
Major features included in Fedora 13:
- Automatic print driver installation
- Automatic language pack installation
- Redesigned user account tool
- Color management to calibrate monitors and scanners
- Experimental 3D support for NVIDIA video cards
Some other features in this release include:
- A new way to install Fedora over the Internet
- SSSD authentication for users
- Updates to NFS
- Zarafa Open Source edition, a new open-source groupware suite
- System rollback for the Btrfs file system
- Better SystemTap probes
- A Python 3 stack that can be installed parallel to an existing Python stack
- Support for the entire Java EE 6 spec in Netbeans 6.8
For more details about other features that are included in Fedora 13 refer to their individual wiki pages that detail feature goals and progress found here.