Ars takes a first look under the hood of Fedora 12

“The community behind the Fedora Linux distribution has
announced the availability of the Fedora 12 beta. Fedora 12, which
is codenamed Constantine, is scheduled for official release in
November. The new version ships with updated software and adds a
number of improvements to key system components. It also brings a
lot of nice virtualization improvements.

“One of the major goals for Fedora 12 is to boost the quality of
the distro on netbook devices. Changes that help fulfill that goal
have been made throughout the entire system. The 32-bit x86
packages are now compiled for i686 by default and have a number of
optimizations that will provide a performance increase on computers
with Intel’s Atom processor (-mtune=atom). You can see an
interesting discussion about the implications of this change in the
IRC logs from a Fedora Engineering Steering Committee meeting.”

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