Fedora 17 - featuring the GNOME 3.4 and KDE 4.8 desktops, a development build of GIMP 2.8, and the controversial placement of system files in /usr is released now. The Fedora 17 'Beefy Miracle' alpha release is available! This release offers a preview of some of the best and meatiest free and open source technology currently under development. End users will see numerous improvements in Fedora 17: GIMP has been updated to the long awaited 2.8 release, with an abundant list of new features, such as the single window mode, layer groups, and on-canvas text editing; improved language and font support - a number of Lohit fonts, enabling Indian script, have been added.

About Fedora

The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives. The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in building Fedora and will invite and encourage more outside participation than in past releases. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community.