[in the news] Red Hat's Fedora 14 Boasts Updated Development Tools, New Virtualization Technology

Not sure if this one has been sent around yet... eWeek 11.10.10 Red Hat's Fedora 14 Boasts Updated Development Tools, New Virtualization Technology By Jason Brooks Fedora 14, the latest release of Red Hat's fast-moving, community-supported Linux distribution, hit the Internet earlier this month bearing its typical crop of updated open-source software applications, with a particular focus on updated developer tools, such as the latest versions of the Eclipse and Netbeans Integrated Development Environments. As far as new features are concerned, Fedora 14 is a fairly modest release, particularly when compared to the latest from Fedora's chief Linux rival, Ubuntu. The Fedora feature that most caught my eye was the addition of software packages to enable Spice, the remote desktop protocol that Red Hat picked up in its 2008 acquisition of Qumranet, the creator of Red Hat's KVM open-source hypervisor. While KVM was fairly quickly digested into the distributions of Red Hat and other Linux vendors, Spice has proven more of a challenge, due in large part to the fact that it started out as a proprietary technology <http://www.eweek.com/#>;. Full post: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Red-Hats-Fedora-14-Boasts-...