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Fedora 18 alfa is available now [ new release ]

Posted on  9/20/2012
Fedora development team released  first alfa of fedora 18 codename Spherical Cow this is alfa release but it still has many changes and an awesome freshness

Changes in alfa 18

  • Terminals now use 256 Colors .
  • Gnome version: 3.6.  Gnome version 2,  revert back options
  • integration MATE desktop. For Students
  • integration of Sugar learning environment.
  •  Fedora packaged Owncloud which brings  to backup and sync your personal data.
  • firewalld  default firewall software, replacing iptables.
  • Fedora will now discover printers and other mDNS devices.
  • Also, a preview of next generation Yum packet manag
  •  final release of Samba 4 and possibility to join an Active Directory domain out of the box. .
  •  updated D environment, latest Fedora Haskell packages as well as the latest stack of Perl and Python.

official release notes : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Alpha_release_notes

preview page : http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-prerelease

schedule list : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/Schedule

Direct Downlod link ( 32bit PC) : Download fedora alfa 18 

best way to test is install it inside vm because as known issue anaconda isntaller will format all your disk if you are not manually specifying .

The Anaconda installer for Fedora 18 Alpha will format the entire disk unless custom partitioning is selected. See Bugzilla: #855976.


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