Fedora enhances virtualisation tool

V3.co.uk writes.

Available now, Fedora 17 is a free-to-download Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, where many cutting-edge technologies are given a shake-down before future inclusion into Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

OpenStack was first included in Fedora 16, but the new version updates this to the latest 'Essex' build of the open source cloud platform, which introduced the Dashboard user portal and OpenStack Identity authentication service as stable core modules.

Fedora 17 provides a glimpse of the next generation of the JBoss version 7 application server, released by Red Hat last year but not yet included in the RHEL package, Computerworld notes.

This release also includes oVirt, the open source virtualisation manager that Red Hat uses as the basis for its own Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation package.

In addition to providing administrators a way to test new additions that may be included in RHEL, Fedora also works as an all-purpose desktop Linux distribution for home users and developers.