The tenth version of the Fedora project's Linux distribution promises both a faster and more visually pleasing start-up procedure, thanks to kernel-based mode-setting and the Plymouth program. With GNOME 2.24.1, KDE 4.1.2, OpenOffice 3.0, Firefox 3.0.4, RPM 4.6, the "glitch free" version of PulseAudio and numerous other improvements, Fedora 10 – version name "Cambridge" – includes state-of-the-art components and offers many new features that are likely to be incorporated into other distributions in the near future.

Just over six months after the completion of Fedora 9 (Sulphur), the Fedora project has now released the distribution's successor – Fedora 10 (Cambridge). Although there has been four weeks' delay due to the server infrastructure break-in, unlike many of the previous versions of Fedora, there have been no further last minute delays in the release.

As is customary for Fedora, Cambridge contains a comprehensive and very state-of-the-art software range – even the recently introduced OpenOffice 3.0 and Firefox 3.0.4 have made it into the new version of the Linux distribution. Apart from the improvements to the new version of the kernel and GNOME & co. often developed in co-operation with Fedora and Red Hat programmers, the Fedora developers have also incorporated numerous new features specific to Fedora 10. In the following article, we will take a look especially at these new features and at some of the other events in the Fedora environment that are relevant to Fedora users.

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