After several delays Fedora 11 is finally here.

From the official press release:

The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, today announced the availability of Fedora 11, the latest version of its free open source operating system. The community's eleventh release includes the broadest feature set to date, spotlights developments in software management and sound, improves key virtualization components and introduces Fedora Community, a portal project beta.

Press Release | Release Notes | Announcement

New Features

• 20 Second Startup
  Now that's a fast boot time ;)
  

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• Gnome 2.26
  

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• KDE4.2
  

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• Xfce4.6
  

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• VolumeControl
  

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• Fingerprint
  

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• Xserver 1.6

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• ext4 Default file system
  ext4 is the a new filesystem that brings improved performance.

Images courtesy of the Fedora Project