The season's hottest hobby-kit for electronics and embedded computing enthusiasts, Raspberry Pi, started selling. The device is a fully-functional, self-contained, ARM-powered computer, complete with modern interfaces such as SDHC, USB, HDMI, and Ethernet (USB and Ethernet with $35 Model B), for as low as $25. The device can be powered up using Fedora Remix for Raspberry Pi, a Fedora ARM variant that's heavily optimized for the device. The Raspberry Pi is now available (limited to one quantity per customer), through Premier Farnell or RS Components.Source: Raspberry Pi

Developers at the Seneca College released a version of Fedora Remix ARM that's optimized for the Raspberry Pi. Fedora Remix is itself a lightweight version of the open-source Red Hat Linux derivative, which is now further optimized for this $25 self-contained hobby-kit computer. The new Fedora Remix variant fits in a 2 GB SD card that the Raspberry Pi boots from. By simply connecting a display to the HDMI port (1080p supported), a keyboard and a mouse to the two USB ports, Fedora Remix will lead you straight to user information screen, from where normal usage is a minute away, without needing any hardware configuration. The 2 GB SD card is left with some space for user data. Raspberry Pi with Fedora Remix works just like any desktop. In related news, the makers of Raspberry Pi announced that the first batch of these boards will be through QA testing by the 23rd, and out for shipping.A video presentation of Fedora Remix for Raspberry Pi follows.

Skinny Ripper, from the house of British ultra-quiet PC maker Tranquil, is designed to be a music archiving server. In its ultra-slim form-factor, the server is configured to be able to work head-less. It features a slot-in optical drive, and a 1 TB internal hard drive (expandable), and runs an embedded version of Fedora Linux. Insert a CD, and it will automatically fetch tag info from the internet, and rip the music to a format of your choice. It can then also stream the music using the Subsonic streamer application. For a nearly single-function device, the Tranquil Skinny Ripper costs £665.83 ($1,051), more of a jewel for your living-room.

The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, today announced the availability of Fedora 10, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 10 features numerous leading-edge technologies and continues to lay the groundwork for derivative open source distributions throughout the enterprise.
“Fedora volunteer contributors and Red Hat engineers worked together to develop the cutting-edge features found in Fedora 10. Their widespread appeal, combined with Fedora's policy of collaborating with upstream free software communities, means that many of these features will be found in other Linux distributions in the future,” said Paul Frields, Fedora project leader at Red Hat.

Fedora 9, the latest release from the Fedora Project, is available for download since yesterday. The free, open source Linux operating system sponsored by Red Hat, promises to include significant new versions of many key components and technologies. The following Release Notes provide an overview of the important changes from the last release of Fedora. To download the new Fedora 9 OS click here.Source: Fedora Project

The Fedora Project has released its first beta for the upcoming Fedora 9 Linux-based operating system. While not intended for production use, the beta includes most of what you'll find in the final release of Fedora 9, including new Kernel 2.6.25-rc5, GNOME 2.22, KDE 4.0.2 desktop environment, Firefox 3 Beta 5, and numerous other improvements and enhancements. The final form of Fedora 9 is slated to arrive later this spring. To download, visit this download page.Source: Fedora

Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco's community, the company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage. The surveys help inform Alfresco's technology strategy, according to Ian Howells, Alfresco's chief marketing officer. "It's important for us to know which platforms to test against first," he said, adding, "It's in users' interest to give us good data." Among Linux operating systems, usage of Ubuntu and Red Hat stood at 35 percent and 23 percent, respectively, according to the survey. Suse, OpenSuse and Suse Enterprise collectively garnered 13 percent; Debian, 15 percent; and "other" distributions usage of 14 percent. Users also reported using a variety of proprietary enterprise software. Among Windows users, Vista adoption was just 2 percent, compared to 63 percent for Windows XP and 28 percent for Windows Server 2003.

All you alternative OS users out there will be interested to know that Fedora Version 8.0.1 was released today, featuring GNOME 2.2.0 and Compiz Fusion. Other notable features of the free Linux-based operating system include a new look and feel called Infinity, better wireless networking, enhanced Bluetooth integration, better laptop operation, and a host of other tweaks and fixes. Grab the new free Fedora here, or read the release highlights first.Source: Fedora,Engadget

Fedora, a Linux-based operating system, will launch tomorrow in its latest "Version 8 - Werewolf" incarnation. There should be several new features in this release.

For example, several custom spins (variations aimed at a particular user group) will be available, namely: Games, Developer and Electronic Lab. Pulse Audio will bring per-application sound control, for example. Codec Buddy will appear as well, this time doing all the hard work of searching for and installing codecs all for you automatically. Among other features are a new firewall, a new look to the OS, as well as Online Desktop.Source: Linux Noob