"The developers behind the popular Fedora Linux
distribution announced this week the official release of version
11, codenamed Leonidas. This release introduces some significant
new features but it also comes with some unfortunate bugs,
particularly in the installer.
"Fedora tends to ride the cutting edge of desktop Linux
technology and is often the first distribution to include new
upstream features. This makes Fedora a compelling choice for
developers and Linux enthusiasts who like to stay ahead of the
curve. The downside of dogfooding the latest stuff is that users
occasionally have to contend with a release that is slightly
undercooked. Fedora 11 isn't raw but it falls short of well
done.
"One of the major goals for this release was a rewrite of the
storage and partitioning component of Anaconda, the Fedora 11
installer. The rewrite was intended to boost the extensibility of
the storage subsystem and address some fundamental design
limitations that have previously made it difficult to add support
for new storage configurations. Although this improvement was
greatly needed, it created some new problems and introduced
instability in the installer. These problems were partly
responsible for the delays that pushed the release date into
June."
