Fedora 11 Released
June 9th, 2009
I haven’t had much time to play with it yet, but Fedora 11 (code named Leonidas) was released today. I spent most of the day watching Comcast spasm while the torrent ran downloading the i386 version (I’ll grab x86_64 tonight, I’m not screwing with ass slow Internet during work again), so by the time it was burnt and the upgrade finished, it’s now 10pm.
So far though, the upgrade has gone well. The calendar plugin for Thunderbird seems to have lost all of my calendars which pretty much bites my ass, but let’s be honest, my life really isn’t all that interesting that my calendar was packed. I still haven’t gotten the fingerprint authentication working yet, but to be fair I never had it working so that’s not a regression. Otherwise, I just have the general clean feeling you get from using updated software. 
Grab the ISOs at Fedora’s project site. If you grab the Live CD, you don’t need to install anything to try it out, just put the CD in and boot from it. So at very least, you can quickly see what you’re missing before reverting back to whatever bad operating system decision you insist on making.
