ABOUT FEDORA The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. 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.

The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux. By using this more open process, The Fedora Linux project hopes to provide an operating system that uses free software development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.

Fedora Core 5 features:

* GNOME 2.14

Improved speed and usability, and new and better features for power management, file sharing, user help, system administration, teleconferencing, picture browsing, and networking.

* OpenOffice 2.0.2

Enhanced productivity features, extensive compatibility with other popular office software, database connectivity functions, and improved use of system libraries for faster loading and better responsiveness overall.

* KDE 3.5.1

New and exciting features for users and developers, including stylish and attractive applets, educational and entertaining games, incredibly standards-compliant Internet tools, and enhanced multimedia and usability.

* Mono

Support for .NET means a new generation of dynamic and powerful cross-platform applications, with some already included, such as Tomboy for note-taking, F-Spot for photo management, and Beagle for content searching and indexing.

* Yum-based Package Tools

Installation and software management tools are all based on the flexible and powerful yum utility for easy selection and upgrade of new and existing software.

* Xen Virtualization

The best framework yet for installation, management, migration, and monitoring of software-based virtual domains, allowing system owners to effectively leverage and force-multiply existing hardware for maximum efficiency, scalability, redundancy, and flexibility.

* Apache HTTP Server 2.2

"Enhanced authentication, database support, proxy facilities, and content filtering, all built on the most stable and customizable platform for Web services."

* Enhanced Security

Support for SELinux binary policy modules means that users and developers can now ship their own specialized policies with affected software.  GCC's best of breed features, such as stack protection, NX, PIE, and compile-time buffer checks, pile on additional layers of assurance to effectively block illegal ingress.

We are providing Fedora Core 5 Linux CDs.