Fedora 13 (Goddard) Officially Released Today

May 25th, 2010 by Fuad NAHDI Categories: Fedora
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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.

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