Fedora 19 lands in beta with updates for devs, cloud
May 29, 2013
Grazed from The Register. Author: Neil McCallister.
The Fedora Project has announced the beta release of Fedora 19, codenamed "Schrödinger’s Cat", almost exactly six months since the previous version entered beta. The release brings the Fedora project back on track after the much-delayed Fedora 18, which shipped two months later than expected due to lingering bugs.
Among its major new features, Fedora 19 is the first to bundle Red Hat’s OpenShift Origin platform-as-a-service (PaaS) management software, something that was meant to be included in the previous version but was bumped to give the OpenShift devs time to upgrade their code to run on the new version of Ruby on Rails…
Fedora’s OpenStack infrastructure cloud software has also been upgraded to the "Grizzly" release, which shipped in April. Fedora 19 brings lots of new tools for developers, including PHP 5.5, Ruby 2.0.0, and a technology preview of the next version of the Java platform, OpenJDK 8. There’s even a new Developer’s Assistant tool that automates setting up new software projects in a variety of programming languages…
Read more from the source @ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/28/fedora_19_beta/