Fedora 17

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Released on 29 July 2012.

Download:

https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all

Torrent: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

Common Bugs: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F17_bugs
Fedora 17 Installation Guide - Very complete
Anaconda options

Boot Options

Anaconda boot options modified for Fedora 17
Anaconda memory requirements for Fedora 17 (08 June 2012)
"We dropped the requirement to 512 MB. Also the 'nomemcheck' parameter was added to disable the minimum check if people really want to try installing with 384 MB or 256 MB."

Notes

PowerPC

Fedora 17 PPC release notes

Fedora GNOME 3 shell

See GNOME 3 desktop.
gsettings-overide:http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/gsettings-override-2011-07-04-15-45

Dracut

http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/dracut-notes/dracut-notes.html
"Dracut is like 98% shell scripts, so you’re gonna need to know some sh/bash to do anything with it."

UEFI Boot

Lenovo info

UEFI Boot

Dynamic Firewall

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DynamicFirewall

"This feature adds support for a dynamically managed firewall that is able to handle firewall changes without the need to rebuild the whole firewall. The firewall daemon manages the firewall and has a D-BUS interface to interact with clients or services, that request firewall changes."