Fedora 14 with Cloud and Virtualization Features
Nov 05, 2010
Fedora 14, or "Laughlin," made its official debut on Tuesday, and it's packed with a raft of new features designed to enhance the experience for users of the open source desktop operating system. Usability has been a key focus in the past few releases of Red Hat-sponsored Fedora, which is the second most popular Linux distribution, behind only Ubuntu, according to DistroWatch. Significant improvements in networking, software management, hardware support, and other functionality have resulted, so much of the work on this latest release has concentrated instead on providing bug fixes and increased stability. In addition to an improved desktop environment, however, Fedora 14 also features enhancements including "libjpegturbo," a library that brings noticeable performance improvements to users who load and save images in the popular JPEG format. The library "practically halves processing time on most systems," the software's makers say--even use