"I am extremely proud of the Fedora 17 release," said Robyn Bergeron, Fedora Project Leader, in a statement.

With the addition of projects such as oVirt and JBoss Application Server 7, enhancements in OpenStack, and continued support for fresh releases of desktop environments, Fedora 17 is "a comprehensive and robust operating system for all types of users," Bergeron added.

I had a chance to speak with Bergeron this morning about Fedora 17 and all that it adds to the popular beyond what we've already seen in . Here's a synopsis of what I learned.

"I think there is a greater emphasis on not just the under-the-hood and desktop features we normally focus on, but we're also starting to see a greater influx of other large open source projects as well," Bergeron told me.