Being powered by Linux kernel 3.5, the GNOME Edition of the Fedora 18 Alpha Live CD comes with the GNOME 3.6 Beta 2 desktop environment. Fedora 18 Alpha is distributed as Live CDs with GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE and SoaS desktop environments, as well as an installable DVD ISO image for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.