Fedora 17 Officially Released for IBM System z 64-bit | Linux Today

Fedora 17 Officially Released for IBM System z 64-bit

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Marius Nestor
Jul 2, 2012

Dubbed Beefy Miracle, Fedora 17 comes with a lot of new features, enhancements and updated packages, among which we can mention Linux kernel 3.3.4, systemd integration, GNOME 3.4.1 desktop environment with the GNOME Shell interface, GIMP 2.8, and the KDE Software Compilation 4.8.3 environment.

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Marius Nestor

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