The Beefy Miracle Begins. Fedora 17 Hits Alpha 1 | Linux Today

The Beefy Miracle Begins. Fedora 17 Hits Alpha 1

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Feb 28, 2012

“This is the release that is known as the Beefy Miracle and it’s
not just a marketing message, it’s also a statement about how much
‘beef’ has been packed into this release….

On the virtualization front, Fedora is including Open vSwitch
which is a virtual switch project that plays a critical role in the
OpenStack Quantum networking module. OpenStack is an open stack
cloud effort that Red Hat has some involvement with and seeing the
embrace of Open vSwitch in Fedora is a huge step in my opinion.


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Sean Michael Kerner

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