Friday, 1 June 2007

Red Hat Launches Fedora 7 Linux

Red Hat has released its Fedora 7 Linux operating system. The difference in this version as opposed to its predecessors is that it has a more open development chain. "Red Hat still has protocols to follow, but trusted community members can now help to maintain the Fedora packages...

Red Hat has released its Fedora 7 Linux operating system. The difference in this version as opposed to its predecessors is that it has a more open development chain.

"Red Hat still has protocols to follow, but trusted community members can now help to maintain the Fedora packages," said Greg DeKoenigsberg, community development manager at Red Hat.

"It's a fundamental shift in the way we build Fedora, which will lead to a better Red Hat Enterprise Linux [the company's key enterprise Linux products] over time," DeKoenigsberg said.

The other new features in Fedora 7 are the inclusion of a wide range of feature-rich tools that previously were available only to Red Hat engineers.

A user can make use of a customised Fedora operating system that could be run off a USB thumb drive, a live CD or DVD that doesn't require operating system installation on a hard disk drive; the company is quoted to have said.