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New in Fedora

This release includes significant new versions of many key components and technologies. The following sections provide a brief overview of major changes from the last release of Fedora.

Spins

Fedora includes several different spins. Spins are variations of Fedora built from a specific set of software packages. Each spin has a combination of software to meet the requirements of a specific kind of end user. In addition to a boot.iso image for network installation, users have the following spin choices:

  • A regular Fedora image for desktops, workstations, and server users. This spin provides a good upgrade path and similar environment for users of previous releases of Fedora.
  • One of several Live images that can be run from a disc or USB flash device, and can be installed to hard disk as desired. Refer to the [[../Live| Live]] section for more information about the Live images.

More custom spins are available at http://spins.fedoraproject.org. These Live images can be used on USB media via the livecd-iso-to-disk utility available in the livecd-tools package.

Jigdo

Fedora releases are also available via Jigdo. This distribution method can improve the speed of obtaining the installation ISO images. Instead of waiting for torrent downloads to complete, Jigdo seeks the fastest mirrors it can find via the Fedora Project Mirror Manager infrastructure, and downloads the bits it needs from these mirrors. To optimize seeking these bits, you can tell Jigdo to scan a DVD or CD you already have, and cut down on redundant downloads. This feature becomes particularly useful if you:

  • Download all the test releases and then get the final release, in which case you have 90% of the data already with each subsequent download.
  • Download both the DVD and the CD set, in which case the DVD holds 95% of the data needed for the CD sets.
  • Download any combination of the above.

Upgrading using PreUpgrade

PreUpgrade is an application users run on an existing Fedora 7, 8 or 9 installation, that resolves and downloads packages required to upgrade Fedora. While PreUpgrade downloads the necessary packages, users are free to continue using their systems.

To use PreUpgrade to upgrade Fedora 9 to Fedora 10:

  • Back up all important data before upgrading.
  • Run the yum update command as root to make sure all packages are updated to their latest versions.
  • Run the yum install preupgrade command as root to install PreUpgrade.
  • Run the preupgrade command as root to start the PreUpgrade application.
  • Select Fedora 10 (Cambridge) on the Choose desired release screen, and click the Apply button.
  • When all of the packages have downloaded, reboot your system to start the Fedora 10 installer.

For further information, refer to the PreUpgrade Wiki

Features

  • KDE 4.2.2 is available in the KDE Live image as well as the regular DVD.
  • Xfce 4.4.2 is available as part of this release.


Road Map

The proposed plans for the next release of Fedora are available at RoadMap.

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