Fedora 12 'Constantine' launches with enhanced video codec and power management

Continuing in the time-honored tradition set by the likes of Fedora 10 and Fedora 11, Fedora 12 (codenamed "Constantine"). With this release comes improvements in the realms of webcam support, video codec, audio, security and power management, as well as "bluetooth on demand" and some virtualization enhancements. The only thing absent for the devout Linux fan? A fun alliteration like Karmic Koala. Missed opportunity, if you ask us.

[Dreamwell Posted Nov 18th 2009 10:57AM]

Fedora is the pre-hardened codebase for CentOS.

Fedora -> RedHat Enterprise Linux -> debranding -> CentOS

[Lamppost Posted Nov 18th 2009 10:23AM]

I'm only interested in Constantine if the code was written by Alan Moore.

[jedi Posted Nov 18th 2009 10:44AM]

> So, you do the consumer Linux thing. That's fine. Ever transcode any video?
> If so, your software is old. Old like the hills. And that's the point. F12 is the
> very newest, if not the bestest Linux, has to offer.

...so what sort of "newness" do I exactly gain here by defecting to Fedora 12?

Transcoders something to get hot and bothered about? Probably an absurd idea. Just fire it up and let them chug along until done. It's the perfect thing to do inside of an old school Unix batch job. Let it gobble up a core for awhile.

[AdamWill Posted Nov 18th 2009 2:13PM]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Announcement

or, even more extensively:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList

[ASRRGR Posted Nov 18th 2009 11:16AM]

Any thoughts on Upgrade vs Full Install yet?

[hungarianhc Posted Nov 18th 2009 1:00PM]

Does this come with Flash out of the box? Only one way to find out, I suppose... Time to burn that DVD!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 18th 2009 1:40PM]

Flash always needs adding as its proprietary software, whether its Windows 7, Ubuntu, or in this case Fedora. only takes a few click and a restart of firefox any way!!
Linuxmint and PClinuxOS do have flash and all the multimedia codecs pre-installed if you like things to work "out of the box"

[AdamWill Posted Nov 18th 2009 2:09PM]

Fedora never provides proprietary software, so no, no Adobe Flash. gnash and swfdec are both available, however. Adobe Flash can be got from Adobe if you really need it.

[Zangetsu Posted Nov 18th 2009 3:27PM]

Ubuntu and Fedora are the only OSes that I could leave Windows for.

[Cammerv8 Posted Nov 22nd 2009 10:18PM]

Fedora 12 is rocking my dell!!
is true they need better wireless support. and there is something about firefox + compiz that inst right.
but after that is awsome!!!