Fedora Linux 15 is now available, providing users on the desktop with a full GNOME 3 experience including the GNOME Shell user interface.

Fedora 15, codenamed 'Lovelock' also introduces new security, spin, networking and virtualization features to the community Linux project, sponsored by Red Hat.

"GNOME Shell is a big change and I'd be doing people a disservice if I didn't say that GNOME 3 and GNOME Shell is a fairly radical departure from the GNOME 2 experience," Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader told InternetNews.com. "That being said, a lot of people find the change refreshing."

GNOME 3 as an upstream project was officially released in April and Fedora 15 is the first major Linux distro to include it as part of the core release. Smith noted that GNOME Shell was designed to have fewer interruptions for users and enable users to more easily access their data and applications.