The upcoming Fedora 11 release, named Leonidas, is scheduled to be released towards end of May. This release comes up with all latest versions of desktops like KDE, GNOME, XFCE and popular applications like Firefox, OpenOffice.org etc. The following are the notable features in this release.

  • EXT4 as default file system
  • KDE 4.2, GNOME 2.26, Xfce 4.6, OpenOffice.org 3.1.0, Firefox 3.1, Thunderbord 3
  • Improvement in time taken for start up and shut down (20 sec start up)
  • Simplified volume control
  • Native Windows cross compiler