Fedora Comes of Age
Most people who follow Linux would agree that Fedora has become a strong, viable Linux system
in its own right, and not just a test release for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project has continued
to grow and flourish, and Fedora 8 is but the latest incarnation in a great line. Figure 8-2 shows a
standard desktop.
While still laying the foundation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora has also added some fun
and powerful features to distinguish itself from other Linux systems. Here are some examples:
Anaconda??”As noted earlier, the Anaconda installer used with Fedora and RHEL has
received a major overhaul in the past two versions of Fedora. For some time, Anaconda
has been able to install Fedora from local media (CD/DVD) or network media (using
HTTP, NFS, or FTP), but it used to be able to install packages only from the Fedora
repository.
Anaconda is also being used as the heart of the Fedora LiveCD Project (formerly Kadischi).
You can run a typical Anaconda install that results in a live CD or DVD ISO image that
can be used to run Fedora live from that medium.
Xen virtualization??”The ability to run multiple operating systems instances on one
computer is just the beginning of the promise that virtualization brings to Linux.
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