Fedora 16, codenamed “Verne”, has been released. New features include Gnome 3.2, KDE 4.7, GRUB2 and the complete removal of HAL from the distribution.

The new Fedora offers a lot of advancements. Considered individually, they tend to constitute minor, evolutionary improvements – but overall, the distribution is taking another noticeable step forward. Verne’s large number of virtualisation and cloud-related changes are a reminder that Red Hat is the driving force behind Fedora, and that the distribution serves for field-testing various features that are geared towards corporate customers and might, sooner or later, appear in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Nevertheless, the distribution is perfectly usable on desktop PCs and notebooks, as it is also designed to suit these device types.

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Fedora 16, codenamed "Verne", has been released. New features include Gnome 3.2, KDE 4.7, GRUB2 and the complete removal of HAL from the distribution. The new Fedora offers a lot of advancements. Considered individually, they tend to constitute minor, evolutionary improvements – but overall, the distribution is taking another noticeable step forward. Verne's large number of ...