Red Hat released the latest version of it's free Linux distro Fedora today. Fedora Core 5 is immediately availible for download from:

http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/

Torrents are online at:
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org

From fedora.redhat.com: "Fedora Core 4 is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites near you, and is also available in the torrent. Fedora Core is available for x86-64, i386, and ppc/ppc64. Please file bugs via Bugzilla, Product Fedora Core, Version 4, so that they are noticed and appropriately classified. Discuss this release on fedora-list."

NewsForge reports today that Red Hat has freed it's Fedora project. "Mark Webbink, deputy general counsel for Red Hat, announced in his keynote address this morning at the Red Hat Summit that Red Hat is freeing the Fedora project from its direct control. Red Hat has created the Fedora Foundation -- to be run by an independent board of directors -- which will direct and control the project from now on. Webbink said Red Hat made this move because it listened to the Fedora community when it said it would be more comfortable about the project if it were not directly owned by a commercial firm."

Details of the Red Hat Summit as well as streams of the keynote address are online at http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/

The latest version of Yellow Dog Linux now supports the latest PowerPC 64bit hardware, according to the announcement: "We are pleased to announce support for the latest Apple Power Mac G5s (towers), Power Mac G5 sound support, internal Mac Mini sound support, and dual head support for new Apple Aluminum Cinema Displays.

Yellow Dog Linux v4.0.91 is immediately available for download from YDL.net Enhanced accounts, under the new 'betas' directory."

The first test release of Fedora Core 4 is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites near you, and is also available in the torrent. New features in Fedora Core 4 test 1 include previews of GCC 4.0, GNOME 2.10, and KDE 3.4, as well as support for the PowerPC architecture. Please file bugs via Bugzilla, Product Fedora Core, Version fc4test1, so that they are noticed and appropriately classified. Discuss this release on fedora-test-list.

Fedora Core 3 is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites near you, and is also available in several torrents that include CD avd DVD images. Fedora Core has expanded in this release to four binary ISO images and four source ISO images, and is available for both x86-64 and i386.

Binary ISO images are available from this macweb torrent as well.

Red Hat has rolled out the latest test release of Fedora Core 2. Test 3 is available for download from Red Hat, or any of the usual mirrors or by torrent. According to Red Hat "This is the final test release, so please help us nail things down."

Yellow Dog Linux from TerraSoftSolutions will be ready for the G5 in May. This press release touts Y-HPC as providing "...full 64-bit support for 970 (G5) based systems, offering native double-precision floating point operations (FlOPS), 16GB (8GB tested to date) memory addressing, and the gcc 64-bit tool chain.

Sweet!!!!

Here's an interesting project.... Ever think about putting Linux on a iPod? Well, some crazy people have, and even devoted a website for the project. iPodLinux is up and running over at Sourceforge.

The distro runs the 2.4.24 kernel. WARNING: This is not for the meek. You'll have to repartition the iPod's HD, and compile the distro from source. Try at your own risk, yadda yada yadda.

RedHat has released their second version of the Fedora Project. Core 2 is now available for i386 and x86-64 machines. Highlights include the 2.6 kernel, GNOME 2.5, and KDE 3.2.1. Get the ISO's here or better yet use the torrent.

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