Red Hat releases Fedora 7.0

Look alive Linux faithful: version 7.0 of your beloved Fedora has been unleashed into the wilds of the Internet. Not only is version 7 a new Linux distro, it also features a new build capability that allows you to build your own custom Linux distribution from the ground up. What's more, Fedora 7 was created using a completely open-source build process, which should make the lives of folks building appliances and distributions on top of Fedora much easier. "With our new open-source build process, our community of contributors will enjoy much greater influence and authority in advancing Fedora," Max Spevack, head of the Fedora Project said. "The ability to create appliances to suit very particular user needs is incredibly powerful." Indeed, Fedora 7 should prove a welcome upgrade for enterprise folks who need to build organization-specific software using the open-source architecture.

For more on Fedora 7:
- see this Linux-Watch article