The Fedora project has put together a special interest group (SIG) dedicated to implementing Linux distros in cloud computing.

During the FUDCon in Toronto, the Fedora team discussed changes to central infrastructure, among which the change to Git.

Ever since the Ubuntu One cloud service played an important role in Ubuntu 10.04, a new prototype of a KDE client has become available. A port to Fedora is also in the works.

A new feature in Fedora 12 was that users could install RPM packages from signed repositories without a root password. "Not good," said many users, so the project decided to reverse the policy.

The Fedora project promoted by Red Hat has released its version 12 of the Linux distro.

The embedded webserver Appweb is available in version 3.0. The new release improves performance, introduces a server-side JavaScript framework and runs on more operating systems than ever before.

In order for Foresight Linux to follow development trends more quickly, Michael Johnson (the founder of rPath and former head of Fedora) has proposed switching from rPath Linux to Fedora.

Instead of 24 months and 3 versions, Novell will in future only supply 2 updates in 18 months for openSUSE.