Thursday, July 4, 2013

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The release of the operating system Fedora 19

The release of the operating system Fedora 19

       Developers open source operating system Fedora today announced the release of the nineteenth stable version of the OS. Fedora 19 system Schrodinger's Cat is now available for download on the project site and, like its predecessor, Fedora 18, came just in time. System developers say that in version 19 they have made ​​changes in almost all directions: from virtualization to the introduction of new application development tools.

       "Fedora 19 includes the latest innovations from the world of Linux, improve performance, stability, flexibility and usability of the operating system in this age of the Internet services and information, "says the official statement of developers. recall that the system is Fedora community-distribution generated using at Red Hat. Fedora-based tests are many new items that were later included in the commercial version of the operating system RHEL. Unlike RHEL, Fedora system is free to use, but it does not have a corporate technical support.

        Based on Fedora 19 Linux-kernel 3.90, and as the standard shell acts Gnome 3.8.3, and developers have the opportunity to go to the Gnome Classic, when used Gnome2-like desktop. Also, the OS uses the project KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.10 and the desktop environment MATE 1.6. For fans of LXDE and XFCE present and these membranes. As regular browser Firefox 21 is used here to work with office documents - LibreOffice 4.0, for graphics GIMP 2.8.4, for e-mail - Thunderbird 17.0.6. Especially developers note that the OS adds support for 3D-printers.
 
        Among other things, Fedora 19 comes with a set of new features for everyday use, especially with extended printing system CUPS, which now applies a default PDF (greatly speeds up the printing process). Also, there has been improved support for Internet telephony VoIP, especially in the SIP and XMPP-protocol. terms of tools for developers, there appeared several new popular tools such as PHP 5.5, Ruby 2.0.0, as well as technology preview version OpenJDK8 .

       It also appeared tool Developer Assistant, which simplifies deployment templates, examples, and support tools for developers. As expected, Fedora refused to use the MySQL database and moved to MariaDB (in the future as well go and Red Hat).
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