The Top Features Of Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow"
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 8th of August 2012 08:24:48 AM
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With Fedora 18 entering its feature freeze and branching today, here's a rundown of some of the most interesting features to be found in this next Fedora release.
Fedora 18 is codenamed the Spherical Cow and is scheduled to be released in November with features including:
- A preview of a new package manager for Fedora. DNF is the new experimental package manager for Fedora 18 that's currently a fork of Yum 3.4. With DNF is also Hawkey, a new package management library built atop libsolv.
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