Fedora Is one of the most popular Linux distributions to date. The product deservedly enjoys the trust of users, combining such qualities as the relevance of programs and overall stability of work. Fedora has gained popularity as a distribution, which includes all the newest technologies in the world of Linux. The Fedora project is a test base for a commercial distribution
Red Hat Enterprise Linux : Before turning on new features in RHEL, they often appear six months-a year earlier in Fedora.
Functional features of Fedora 18:
- "Online Accounts" application providing centralized access to social network accounts;
- Updated contact management, including "Online Accounts" contacts;
- Integrated application DigiKam 2.0;
- The last stable version of the D2 programming language;
- GRUB2 loader;
- A new numbering system for account identifiers;
- NTP client and server application Chrony;
- Mount ext2 and ext3 partitions through the ext4 partition driver;
- Improved support for virtualization and cloud services.
Main software:
- GNOME 3.2, KDE 4.7, XFCE 4.8;
- The Linux kernel 3.1.0, GRUB 2, GCC 4.6.2;
- DigiKam 2.0, blender 2.5;
- Perl 5.14 including Unicode 6.0; Jruby 1.6.2; X.Org Server 11.1, Java 7;
- LibreOffice 3.4.3.2, Firefox 7.0.1.