The drama surrounding the release of Fedora 18 has been well documented. It’s been one setback after another. Be it an inability to come to a conclusion on a package or just broken packages. But that all ends Tuesday (January 15, 2013) with the release of “Spherical Cow”.

What’s really interesting about this is that, thanks to a number of issues, Fedora had nearly worked its way into a perpetual state of irrelevancy. With Ubuntu making incredible headway in user-friendliness and acceptance, a “cutting edge” distribution like Fedora, who couldn’t even manage a proper release, was bound to fade away, like so much Caldera.

But then Fedora 18 finds a release date and prepares itself to show up to that party with some features that could easily bring it back to prominence.

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