Fedora 16 Review

 Fedora currently ranks at No. 3 in DistroWatch's popularity listings, and late Thursday the project behind it announced that the next big version--Fedora 16, or “Verne”--has been officially declared “gold” and ready for release on Tuesday.

If you've been considering sampling a taste of Linux's many benefits for your business, this new release could be a great one to try because of its particular strength on enterprise features. Here are six good reasons to test it.

Expanded virtual network support and an updated version of Spice--which is designed for managing virtual machines--are both included in Fedora 16, as are Xen support, a new virtual machine lock manager, and better ability to browse guest file systems.


The Fedora project abandoned its efforts to implement Ubuntu's controversial new Unity interface back in February, so the Unity-averse will find a safe haven in Fedora.

They'll still have plenty of choices, however, with both GNOME and KDE on offer. Included in Fedora 16 are KDE Plasma Workspace 4.7--including Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Platform--as well as GNOME 3.2.

GNOME 3 has also been controversial, of course, but it's only one option, and GNOME users will also find a new tool that lets them switch seamlessly between keyboard layouts and input methods. For those who don't like GNOME 3, KDE provides a really attractive alternative, as I recently noted.





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