### Fedora 16 released ###
Today, the Fedora project released the 16th version of their distribution, codenamed Verne after Jule Vernes. Also mentioned in the release announcement is Dennis Richtie, co-inventor of UNIX and the C programming language who passed a few weeks ago.

Fedora is known as a very innovative distribution and version 16 comes with some interesting new stuff. Amongst the most interesting technical changes are that the developers integrated the recently released Linux 3.1 Kernel and as Linux 3.0 gained XEN Dom0 support, XEN virtualisation works out of the box on Fedora 16 installations.
Fedora 16 uses, by default, no longer the BIOS partition table, but instead the GPT (GUID Partition Table), which was invented for the EFI. This last change brings the advantage that Fedora can now handle harddisks bigger than two Tebibyte even if they have the traditional block-size of 512 byte. To still be able to boot the system, Fedora also changed the default bootloader from GRUB to GRUB2 which is technically still in development, but has been used by Ubuntu for two years now.
Fedora 16 comes with Gnome 3.2, but there are Spins available with KDE 4.7, XFCE, LXDE and many more desktop environments that can also be found in the repositories of course.
release announcement: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003011.html

### Fedora: merging the bin directories ###
Discussions have started on the Fedora mailinglist to merge all the binary directories into /usr/bin. This means that /sbin /bin /usr/sbin and /usr/bin would all go into the /usr/bin directory.
According to a long email that lists all the benefits of…

### Plans for Evolution 3.4 ###
Evolution is Gnome’s default PIM suite for managing E-Mail/Contacts/Calendar and tasks.
In the development process of Gnome 3.X, Evolution got some major changes. Most notably is probably the new backend that separates handling and storing Contact and Calendar…

### Fedora 17, aka Beefy Miracle ###
The Release Name Beefy Miracle was originally proposed for Fedora 16 [1], but it didn’t make it in the end, instead, Verne was chosen [2].
But the name Beefy Miracle got proposed again for Fedora 17 and this time it made it [3].
The fans of the name even…