Saturday 4 February 2012

Fedora 16 Releases!

The Fedora 16 Linux distribution, which was released about a month after Dennis Ritchie
 died, was dedicated to his memory. FreeBSD 9.0, released January 12, 2012 was also dedicated in his memory.Dennis Ritchie was died on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70 at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, where he lived alone.
After the death of Dennis Ritchie finally Fedora16 was released,this linux was totally dedicated to the Dennis Ritchie.It involve following features as given below:

  • Enhanced cloud support including Aeolus Conductor, Condor Cloud, HekaFS, OpenStack and pacemaker-cloud
  • KDE Plasma workspaces 4.7
  • GNOME 3.2
  • A number of core system improvements including GRUB 2 and the removal of HAL.
  • An updated libvirtd, guest inspection, virtual lock manager and a pvops based kernel for Xen all improve virtualization support.

    Processor and memory requirements for x86 Architectures:


    • Minimum RAM for text-mode: 768 MB
    • Minimum RAM for graphical: 768 MB
    • Recommended RAM for graphical: 1152 MB


Processor and memory requirements for x86_64 architectures:

  • Minimum RAM for text-mode: 768 MB
  • Minimum RAM for graphical: 768 MB
  • Recommended RAM for graphical: 1152 MB

    Download Option:

    You can download fedora16 from here: