Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Nov 2007 17:35 UTC, submitted by anyweb
Fedora 8 has been released. It sports a new look and feel, a codec installation program, the first signs of the GNOME online desktop, various security improvements, support for Compiz and Compiz-Fusion, Java support via Iced-Tea, and much more. Get it from the download page. Update: A couple of articles about the release: 1, 2, 3. Update II: One more: 4. 
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Member since:2006-10-05
And Fedora didn't start off with RedHats advantages?
I'd rather not go down this distro war path. Fedora put out an outstanding release and i can't wait to try it, im just ticked nobody can install satellite till next week! they were supose to be her tomorrow tha punks.
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2005-07-09
Not quite. Ubuntu began its life with as a fully formed distro that forked off of Debian, so while Ubuntu was in development as Ubuntu for less than Fedora was, it started with all the advantages Debian had.