Red Hat introduces more and more advanced Fedora Core 4 Technology

Red Hat has released Fedora Core 4, a free version of Linux.

On Monday, Xen virtual software was launched with Fedora Core 4, which can run multiple operating systems on the same computer. Xen's competitors include EMC's VMware and Microsoft's virtual machine products.

The new Fedora Core 4 uses the latest GNU Compiler set (GNU Compiler Collection) and GCC 4. GCC 4 has brought a new framework for Linux. Linux fans hope it can improve the performance of Linux.

The new Fedora runs on a Power processor machine, such as Apple's PowerPC G4. Although many IBM servers are still using the Power family chip, these systems may be hard to find in a year because Apple has decided to use intel's processor. Fedora Core 4 can also run on a 32-bit or 64-bit processor platform, such as Intel Xeon and AMD's Athlon 64 processor platform.

In 2003, RedHat launched the Fedora Project to make Linux more mature and quickly provide new software for Linux fans. However, to obtain long-term technical support from RedHat, users must purchase the "Redhat Enterprise Linux" software.

Recently, RedHat has tried to make itself more neutral in the Fedora Project, so an increasing number of external developers are being absorbed into this project. At the beginning of this month, RedHat established a "Fedora Fund" to support external developers.

Competing with Fedora include the Ubuntu project and Novell's Suse Linux Professional Edition. Later this week, Fedora will also experience Sun's OpenSolaris.

Fedora Core 4 was originally launched in May 16, but was later released. Currently, you can download Fedora Core 4 directly from the RedHat website.

Red Hat revealed that the Fedora Core 4 operating system is based on the Linux kernel of 2.6.11 and has been specially optimized for the Pentium 4 processor. However, it can also run on a 400 MHz Pentium II, or even, if the user is happy, on a machine with low configurations such as a text interface. The recommended memory for Fedora Core 4 is a 32-bit x86 system, preferably with 256 MB memory. The 64-bit x86 system should have 512 MB memory.

It is reported that the Fedora Core 4 operating system can run on an apple machine launched in 1999 or a machine using a G3 processor. It can also run on pseries servers where power4 and power5 processors are used by IBM.

Fedora Core 4 uses gnome 2.10 or KDE graphics desktop software 3.4. It installs evince and OpenOffice. org2.0 software for PDF File Reading. It also includes GFS software.

With the help of the fedora extras project, fedora becomes more and more advanced. The software that fedora absorbs from the outside includes: abiword word processor, xmms Media Player, gnumeric electronic tabulation software, and freeciv games.

Source: CNET