Thud!

Today we released Fedora Core 6, code named Zod. The most compelling new features of this new release are in the installer, of course. Our main new feature is the ability to install packages from additional repos at installation time. For the average user, this means you can just punch in the URL to your favorite mp3/DVD/flash/other patented stuff repo and select packages just as you would for the base system. There’s no post-installation step required to get this stuff. Administrators of large installations will like this because they can point anaconda at a local repo of all their custom site-specific software. Naturally, this is supported by kickstart too. We also added IPv6 support, simplified the number of screens you have to go through, and sped up package dependancy calculations by quite a bit.

Oh, I guess some other people within the Fedora Project made some changes for this release as well. There’s the shiny new window manager compiz, new printing support, better package update support, new fonts, virtualization via Xen, and of course all the latest and greatest versions of packages. The release summary has the details.

So go give it a try. The release announcement tells you how to get it. We worked like crazy on this release and should have it pretty well figured out, but there are always bugs anyway. Report them to bugzilla and we will do our best to fix them. And in the future, you will be able to install from the updates repo at install time too so you can get the fixes right away.