Fedora 19 has been released a few hours ago. Â This is one of the most interesting releases, feature-wise, for me personally. Â Have a look at the announcement, and scroll through the full list of features that made it through. Â Here is what I’m going to be looking at first thing tomorrow:
- MATE Desktop 1.6. Â After numerous switches from Gnome to KDE and back, MATE is now my desktop of choice, both at work and home. Â Hopefully new version will fix a few minor glitches that I’ve noticed.
- Developers Assistance. Â Not that I need it for my own projects, but it might be useful for bringing more standardization to the office.
- PHP 5.5. Â The latest and the greatest version of the programming language I use on a daily basis.
- Node.js and npm package manager. Â It’s been long overdue. Â Node.js is extremely popular these days and having it as part of the standard distribution is mighty useful. Â Finally, Fedora users can take advantage of all those numerous projects on GitHub without any additional installation headache.
- BIND10. Â This has been a complete rewrite, and it now includes both DNS and DHCP. That’s interesting. Â And probably not too backward compatible. We’ll see.
Yet again huge thanks to everyone who made this release possible. Â You guys are awesome, no matter how much or how little ranting will come in the next few days.