The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 25, the next big step [on] our journey into the containerized, modular future!
Fedora is a global community that works together to lead the advancement of free and open source software. As part of the community's mission the project delivers three editions, each one a free, Linux-based operating system tailored to meet specific use cases: Fedora 25 Atomic Host, Fedora 25 Server, and Fedora 25 Workstation.
Each edition is built from a common set of base packages, which form the foundation of the Fedora operating system. As with all new versions of Fedora, Fedora 25 provides many bug fixes and tweaks to these underlying components, as well as new and enhanced packages, including:
- Docker 1.12 for building and running containerized applications
- Node.js 6.9.1, the latest version of the popular server-side JavaScript engine
- Support for Rust, a faster and more stable system programming language
- Multiple Python versions — 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 — to help run test suites across several Python configurations, as well as PyPy, PyPy3, and Jython
You can get Fedora 25 from getfedora.org. It is shipping with the Linux 4.8 kernel. The default environment is Gnome 3.22 with the Wayland display server. I did a DNF upgrade from release 24 and tested it with my Intel and Radeon setup and everything has just worked out of the box. If you aren't a fan of Gnome, there are other Desktop Environments available, called Spins. Enjoy!
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Thursday November 24 2016, @05:52AM
What program did you use to update, so that I know not to use it in the future?
I use dnf from the command line for updates. I just installed the first batch of updates for Fedora 25, and no reboot was required. In fact, having read somewhere that in newer versions of (Fedora? Linux? Systemd?) certain updates would require a reboot, I must say that I've never actually seen such a thing happening.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @04:37PM
I think what the poster was referring to was the old in-place update process. It relied on a tool called FedUp. Basically what it did was wrap around yum. It would update all your packages to the latest version, rewrite your grub to boot into a special upgrade mode, reboot, change the yum sources, update all the files to the upgrade version, rewrite grub back to where it was, reboot, update packages to the latest version, sometimes ask for kernel reboots, and you were ready. Of course, getting too far from the baseline through customization and you could run into all sorts of problems. Thankfully, DNF is not as fragile on upgrades, but still borks highly customized systems.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @07:00PM
not the op. gnome-software does this windows shit. tried it for about 2 minutes, got nice and pissed, installed packagekit for systems where a gui was desired. gnome is windowsing up lots of things, unfortunately. now after file transfers the stupid notification windows won't go away on it's own. you have to click somewhere. that's fucking stupid. you can't even see the files in your file browser b/c some windows refugee is sabotaging gnome.