The Fedora Project (www.fedoraproject.org) released on June 11, 2009 Fedora 11 code name ‘Reign’, the latest Linux distro from the organization.  Fedora 11 features several important improvements and new features that will further reduce the excuses not to migrate to a Linux desktop.

Some of the key features of Fedora 11:

• Automatic font and mime-type installation - PackageKit - allows automatic installation of codecs, fonts and mime types allowing users to view various multimedia content.
• Volume Control - greatly improved from a confusing user interface in previous versions
• Presto - a faster way to update Fedora 11 packages to latest version.
• Ext4 filesystem - a new filesystem with improved performance and bigger capacities.

There are more new features of course so please visit the Fedora Project website for more details.

Fedora 11 will run on a Pentium II 400MHz system with 256MB RAM with at least 9GB of disk space so it is a great operating system to give life to old computer hardware.  Modern computers should allow users to experience a very responsive system.

If your office requirements is only web browsing, simple and basic documents, spreadsheets and presentations, chat and email, then a Linux/Fedora 11 will be more than sufficient.  Because Linux systems are not susceptible to computer viruses that plague a licensed operating system, loss of productivity due to frequent computer issues is prevented.  An perhaps most importantly, Fedora 11 is totally free and is released under the General Public License or GPL so users will be guilt free from piracy.

It is not true that Linux is difficult to use.  It is only a matter of familiarization of where the applications are found and maybe some training for techologically challenged users.

There are other distributions of Linux available but for users who want to be familiar with enterprise class Linux, Fedora 11 would be the choice because it is the distribution that Red Hat uses for its enterprise version of Linux.  Another enterprise class Linux distribution is called CentOS which is derived and binary compatible with Red Hat.  The difference is that CentOS is free but without commercial support while Red Hat provides 24×7 support.

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