Fedora 12 Released with Huge Improvements in Tablet Support

Fedora 12 has been released. This release touts huge improvement in support for tablets accompanied by tweaks to our favourite software such as a new pen preset tool in Inkscape, Brush dynamics tool in Gimp, Handwriting recognition tool named Cellwriter, a notes taking application (Xournal) to name a few. The following are some of the other new features you will find in Fedora 12.

Fedora 12 Main Features

• Empathy, an instant messenger that supports chat, video, and audio. It lets you talk to your friends who are on AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk, Jabber, Live (MSN), MySpace, and many other platforms.
• Support for Bluetooth audio devices.
• A redesigned NetworkManager which features IPv6 support.
• PackageKit - a package management front-end which sports a re-designed interface with many new user friendly features built-in.
• KDE 4.3, GNOME Shell preview, Gnote which replaces Tomboy are a few other noticable improvements in Fedora 12.

Read the full release notes of Fedora 12 to know the details. Also read an interview with Matthias Clasen of Red Hat who talks about some of the new features for desktop users in Fedora 12.

Download Fedora 12

Latest version of Fedora (version 12 in this case) can be downloaded from this page. There are also a couple of spins of Fedora 12 which are essentially customized versions of Fedora which you can access here.