Fedora 16 now available for download

Die hard Gnome 3 and Fedora fans will be happy to know that Fedora 16 is now officially available for download from the Fedora homepage.

This release includes the brand new Linux kernel 3.1 and the latest updates from Gnome 3.2. It is a completely bleeding edge OS, and Gnome 3 fans are encouraged to take it out for a spin to get the full experience of Gnome 3.2. Apart from Gnome 3.2 there are quite a long list of features which has been added to Fedora 16. As always, Fedora is developer friendly. Fedora 16 is available in Gnome and KDE versions.

Highlights of Fedora 16:

· Linux kernel 3.1.0
· GNOME 3.2.1 desktop environment (with GNOME Shell)
· Systemd services management
· SELinux improvements
· 1000 System accounts
· Added Chrony NTP client
· Removed HAL
· Removed ConsoleKit
· Automatic Multi-seat support
· Support for cloud computing
· Restored support for Xen
· Enhanced Spice 0.10 app to manage virtual machines
· Many improvements for developers
· Aeolus Conductor
· Blender 2.5
· Boost 1.47
· Glasgow Haskell Compiler 7.0.4
· Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1
· GNOME Input integration
· libvirt networking support improvements
· New mkdumprd for kdump
· Perl 5.14
· Static analysis of CPython extensions
· Sugar 0.94
· TigerVNC 1.1
· USB Network Redirection.