GEC NEWS WIRE“Heisenbug” adds ARM as primary architecture and enhances integration with virtualization and cloud computing technologies
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat. sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the general availability of Fedora 20, code-named “Heisenbug,” the latest version of the free, Linux-based Fedora operating system. Developed by a diverse global community, Fedora 20 celebrates 10 years of the Fedora Project’s innovation. This release brings several key features to enhance usability, performance, and provide developers with additional functionality.
Fedora 20 is also dedicated to Seth Vidal, a dedicated, tireless, and brilliant contributor and the lead developer of Yum and the Fedora update repository. Seth touched the lives of hundreds of Fedora contributors directly, and millions indirectly by improving the experience of using and updating Fedora.
Support for ARM
As part of Fedora’s commitment to leading edge open innovation, ARM is now supported as a primary architecture. While x86/x86_64 serves as the default architecture for the majority of Fedora users, ARM is rapidly growing in stature and already dominates the mobile world. Beyond mobile and the maker movement, ARM shows great promise as a powerful and cost-effective technology for the server world, leading to primary support from Fedora to satisfy end users and developers targeting the ARM platform.
Cloud and Virtualization Improvements
Fedora 20 continues the Fedora tradition of adopting and integrating leading edge technologies used in cloud computing. Features that make working with virtualization and cloud computing much easier include:
First-Class Cloud Images – Developed by the Fedora Cloud SIG, these images are well-suited to running as guests in public and private clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenStack.
VM Snapshot UI with virt-manager – This feature makes taking VM snapshots much easier, by adding a simple, discoverable UI to virt-manager, and includes adding functionality to libvirt to support deleting and rebasing to external snapshots.
ARM on x86 with libvirt/virt-manager- This change to Fedora 20 fixes running ARM virtual machines on x86 hosts using standard libvirt tools libvirt virsh, virt-manager and virt-install.
