| Final Fedora 7 release candidate available |
Apr. 27, 2007
 The Fedora team yesterday announced the availability of the fourth and final development release of Fedora 7. This release includes a 2.6.20 kernel and is reproduced in three installable live images: an i386 GNOME live CD, an x86_64 live DVD, and an i386 KDE live CD, a spokesman said.
Fedora 7 RC4 features the following key updates, according to spokesman Will Woods:- GNOME 2.18 is new default desktop
- the new Echo icon theme is no longer the default
- KDE and Xfce desktops, among several other packages, are included in the development repositories, but not on the media
- Fast User Switching is now available
- the Internet messaging program called Gaim is now known as Pidgin
Standard features, according to the team, include:- OpenOffice.org 2.2.0 office suite
- amaroK 1.4.5. media player
- eMacs 22.0.95 real-time display editor
- Firefox 2.0.0.3 browser
- GIMP 2.2.13 graphics editor
- Thunderbird 2.0 email client
- MySQL 5.0.37 database
Red Hat may be spending most of its time working on its best-selling full-featured, Linux server distribution. RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), but Fedora (formerly Fedora Core), its community-based, but Red Hat controlled, community distribution has many desktop fans.
While Fedora is primarily a product of Red Hat's engineers, the project also welcomes outside developers. Fedora is a cutting edge distribution with releases of the operating system about 2-3 times a year.
The new test CD/DVD images are available for download from Fedora mirrors here and also via BitTorrent, here.
Alternatively, you can link directly to the i386 live CD ISO image (693 MB) here or the x86_64 ISO DVD image (778 MB) here.
You can view some screenshots, courtesy of The Coding Studio, here.
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