After 6 months of development, Fedora Project a community project sponsored by Redhat, have announced the release of Fedora 15 code named Lovelock. “We bring to you the latest and greatest release of Fedora ever, Fedora 15″ was the statement made by Jared K. Smith in his email to the Fedora Mailing list.

The highlight of this release is the integration of Gnome 3. Gnome is one of the most popular desktop environment available on Linux. Gnome 3 is the next major release from Gnome Project and have brought out a complete revamped interface when compared to its version 2. Gnome 3 have been both criticised and appreciated by the Community for its new implementation of Desktop. Fedora is the first major distribution to integrate Gnome 3 as default. “GNOME 3 is being developed with extensive upstream participation from Red Hat developers and Fedora volunteers, and GNOME 3 is tightly integrated in Fedora 15″ claims Jared Smith.

Another highlight of this release is the introduction of Btrfs filesystem, which is developed by Oracle. Even though ext4 is the default filesystem in this release, but Btrfs is provided as a menu option which the user can select if required. Fedora is trying to make Btrfs as the default filesytem in its next release.

Like many other recently released distributions like Opensuse, Ubuntu, Fedora also moved to LibreOffice from OpenOffice. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice and was created due to the licensing Issues brought out by Oracle soon after Sun Microsystem was accrued by them. Other features include introduction of a new security system, better power management, KDE plasma workspaces 4.6, Xfce 4.8 desktop environments, Spice integration etc. Overall this release looks to be really good, improving the overall usability to the next level.