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Fedora 10 released

Posted November 26th, 2008 in Linux/Unix/BSD

Fedora 10 was released today and is available for immediate download.

Release Notes

If you are considering installing or upgrading Fedora 10, I highly recommend having a good look through the release notes on the Fedora Project website before you do so. I have summarised below some of the interesting parts of the release notes.

Live and Install

Fedora 10 comes in either "live" or "install" flavours. The live versions allow you to boot Fedora directly off a CD into a working desktop without installing anything to your computer.

You can use a live version to try Fedora out and also see if it works well with your hardware. The live editions are available with either the Gnome (2.24) or KDE (4.1.2) desktops and for the i386 / 32 bit or x86_64 / 64 bit platforms. There are no PPC versions of the live CDs. The live CDs allow you to then install Fedora to your computer from the desktop if you so choose.

The install media comes on either CDs or a single DVD and for i386 / 32 bit, x86_64 / 64 bit, and PPC for older Mac computers. The 32bit and 64bit flavours comes on 6 CDs and the PPC on 7. The install version has more software available and you are able to install both the Gnome and KDE desktops if you want to. You won't have to download as much additional software as you customise your system with the full install version than the live version.

Installation Guide

There is a comprehensive installation guide on the Fedora Project website.

Hardware Requirements

The hardware requirements for Fedora 10 are the same as for Fedora 9 and are as follows:

For the x86 / 32 bit platform, Fedora recommends at least a 400 MHz Pentium II or better processor and 256MB of RAM for graphical mode. More RAM is always better...

For the x86_64 / 64 bit platform, Fedora recommends 512MB of RAM for graphical mode. Because these are newer processors than 32 bit there's no minimum recommendation for a processor; they should all be good enough.

For the PPC platform, Fedora recomments a 400 MHz G3 / POWER3 or better processor with 256MB of RAM. Fedora 10 supports the New World generation of Apple Power Macintosh, shipped from circa 1999 onward. Although Old World machines should work, they require a special bootloader which is not included in the Fedora distribution. Fedora has also been installed and tested on POWER5 and POWER6 machines, and will also work on Playstation 3.

Gnome

The version of the Gnome desktop manager with Fedora 10 is 2.24

KDE

The KDE version in Fedora 10 is 4.1.2 and as with Fedora 9 KDE 3.x is not included at all.

File Systems

Fedora 9 featured a preview of ext4 support. Fedora 10 brings a fully ext4-compatible e2fsprogs and the Anaconda partition screen makes ext4 available as a filesystem if you start the installer with the ext4 option. XFS is also supported and available in Anaconda.

Multimedia

As usual, Fedora 10 ships without MP3 or DVD playback support because both formats are patent encumbered.

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