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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Fedora 17 Beta
Dennis Gilmore has announced the availability of the beta release of Fedora 17: "We
are delighted to announce the availability of the beta release of
Fedora 17. This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both
over and under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the
advancing state of free software. On the desktop, GNOME 3.4 introduces
many user experience improvements, including new search capabilities in
the activities overview, improved themes, and enhancements to the
Documents and Contacts applications. A new application, GNOME-boxes,
provides easy access to virtual machines. Additionally, GIMP 2.8 brings
new improvements such as single-window mode, layer groups, and on-canvas
editing." Here is the release announcement. Download (torrents): Fedora-17-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso (647MB, SHA256, torrent), Fedora-17-Beta-i686-Live-KDE.iso (685MB, SHA256, torrent), Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso (646MB, SHA256, torrent), Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso (682MB, SHA256, torrent).