Fedora 14 Preview: What's New in Fedora 14?

[johnshaw1917]

Fedora 14 is on track for a final release date of November 02, 2010. If all 14 does is improve upon 13, Fedora will have another winner on its hands. Why? Fedora 13 was one of the strongest releases the Red Hat sandbox has had in a while. And with what Fedora 14 has under and above its hood, the next release should up the ante yet again for the Fedora distribution.

But what exactly is in store for Fedora 14? And who is this release really targeting? Historically, Fedora was a distribution that attracted only those that wanted "bleeding edge" software and a distribution they could (and almost needed to) tinker with. With the release of Fedora 13 things started to change a bit. The end user could happily use Fedora out of the box. It was stable and it had plenty to offer users of all levels.

Read more here.

KDE 4.5

As many of you know, I have been more than impressed with the 4.5 release of KDE. And Fedora 14 including the SC release of KDE brings to Fedora the first release of the KDE 4.x branch that is actually on par with that of GNOME. To those who have not used KDE in a while, the version you will see shipped in KDE-based Fedora spins will be quite stunning. It is, in my opinion, one of the most polished desktops you will see.

KDE desktop. Wish they could have left things alone.

[LizardMan]

Thanks for the news John, I have never installed Fedora on my laptop. This will be the time to test it

[Neo]

fedora 13 was big comeback , hope to see same trend in 14 too

[JayCub]

Thank you John for the report, from what i have read they are aiming towards buisness, and developers, and i only know what i read here on the forum, as im still in that windows user mode.
the report mentioned that home users will see little difference come Nov 2 some speed increases.. i will download 14 then and give it a try out... something different for me to have a go of.

[johnshaw1917]

I don't like the thought of upgrading my Fedora 13 installation to Fedora 14, because of the new KDE desktop, but will give it a shot. If all else fails, I will try altering things a bit and install the Xfce desktop. I'm using GNOME with Fedora 13, but even that has a bit too heavy weight for my liking.