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Raleigh, NC - May 25, 2010 -
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 13, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 13 combines some of the latest open source features with an open and transparent development process. Fedora 13 includes a variety of features and improvements to enhance desktop productivity, assist in software development, and improve virtualization.

Fedora 13's feature list includes:

• Improved performance for video cards using truly free software drivers
• Innovative support for Python developers including system-wide tracing and enhanced debugging
• Enhanced virtualization with stable device addresses and better performance in multi-processor guests

Fedora 13 also features numerous desktop improvements that all users can see and experience including:

• Automatic installation of drivers for printers when attached
• Simple, practical utilities for backing up and restoring important data, and for scanning
• Enhanced network management for mobile broadband roaming, Bluetooth tethering, and command line accessEnhanced network management for mobile broadband roaming, Bluetooth tethering, and command line access
• Color management for scanners, printers, monitors, and cameras

Some of the many new features in Fedora 13 include:

• Better monitoring tools for developers using SystemTap static probes
• New System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) for use with logging into managed domains
• NFS version 4, and enhanced performance for NFS with IPv6 support
• Improvements to the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) to identify and squash bugs
• Enhanced support for experimental, next-generation btrfs file system
• NetBeans 6.8 IDE supporting entire Java 6 EE specification
• Dogtag Certificate System, an enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority (CA)
• Open source editions of functional suites for groupware and integrated development

For a more complete list of Fedora 13 features, refer to the Fedora community's release announcement.

Release Notes at Fedora.org. | Download Fedora 13.