Development Release: Fedora 11 Alpha

The first test build of the upcoming Fedora 11 is out: "The Fedora project is proud to present the availability of Fedora 11 (Leonidas) Alpha. The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with testing Fedora 11 by way of Rawhide." Some of the more interesting features of this release include: "Windows Cross Compiler (mingw32-*); ext4 and Btrfs file systems, mew volume control; PackageKit firmware support; GNOME 2.26 development snapshot, KDE 4.2 RC 2 and Xfce 4.6 Beta; NetBeans 6.5, Python 2.6, Git 1.6.1.1." Read the release announcement and release notes for more information. Download the installable live CD images from these Fedora mirrors or via BitTorrent: F11-Alpha-i686-Live.iso (636MB, SHA1, torrent), F11-Alpha-i686-Live-KDE.isoSHA1, torrent), F11-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso (641MB, SHA1, torrent), F11-Alpha-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso (703MB, SHA1, torrent). (698MB,