Fedora 8 code named Werewolf has been officially released. There are a number of features which makes it a better distribution than its predecessor Fedora 7. They are as follows :
- Inclusion of PulseAudio sound daemon. PulseAudio is a networked sound daemon which allows you to set say, individual volumes for different applications, mixing of multiple audio streams, allowing an application to play back or record audio on a different machine than the one it is running on and so on.
- Fedora 8 makes it possible to let you legally purchase proprietary codecs from Fluendo via its Codeina utility.
- A new default theme for GNOME called Nodoka has been released.
- PolicyKit - This tool allows you to provide specific powers to users and applications to carry out privileged operations without diverging the root password. For instance you can allow every family member to format removable media without giving them the root password. PolicyKit is expected to completely replace Gksudo.
- Compiz packages has been included but they are in a disabled state and have to be enabled by the user.
There are a number of other features too such as support for Nepali language, improved and completely free Java environment for Red Hat derived from OpenJDK, Bluetooth enhancements and so on. Check out the full feature list of Fedora 8 to know more.
Fedora 8 is made available in multiple formats such as a DVD image which carries the install version and LiveCD images of GNOME and KDE. You can download Fedora 8 from the following location. Do try downloading using torrents because it is much faster than directly downloading from a mirror site and it saves the bandwidth of the mirrors hosting the Fedora 8 images.
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