Red Hat releases Fedora Core 4

NEW DELHI: Red Hat, the Linux distribution major has announced the release of Fedora Core 4. Originally slated for release in May, the project got delayed and has been announced recently. Said an online report.

This version of Fedora can work on machines powered by Power processors - like the PowerPC G4 as well as with 32-bit and 64-bit processors like Athlon 64 from AMD and Xeon from Intel.

Fedora Core 4 is based on Linux Kernel 2.6.11 and is optimized for Pentium 4 CPU's. Fedora also supports IBM's pSeries servers with Power4 and Power5 CPU's.

The release comes bundled with Gnome 2.10 and graphical desktop environment KDE 3.4. It uses Evince for PDF documents, OpenOffice.org 2.0 and includes the Global File System (GFS). Fedora Core 4 was built using the new version 4 of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection).

The Fedora Project is an open source project sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the Fedora community. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc. Says the official Fedora website.

The project was launched to help in further development of the platform and provide quicker releases incorporating advanced features.

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