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Fedora 26 Released

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday July 12 2017, @05:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the nothing-like-the-bleeding-edge dept.

technoid_ writes:

From https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-26-is-here/

Hi everyone! I'm incredibly proud to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 26. Read more below, or just jump to download from:

If you're already using Fedora, you can upgrade from the command line or using GNOME Software — upgrade instructions here. We've put a lot of work into making upgrades easy and fast. In most cases, this will take half an hour or so, bringing you right back to a working system with no hassle.

What's new in Fedora 26?

First, of course, we have thousands of improvements from the various upstream software we integrate, including new development tools like GCC 7, Golang 1.8, and Python 3.6. We've added a new partitioning tool to Anaconda (the Fedora installer) — the existing workflow is great for non-experts, but this option will be appreciated by enthusiasts and sysadmins who like to build up their storage scheme from basic building blocks. F26 also has many under-the-hood improvements, like better caching of user and group info and better handling of debug information. And the DNF package manager is at a new major version (2.5), bringing many new features. Really, there's new stuff everywhere — read more in the release notes.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by zocalo on Wednesday July 12 2017, @07:40PM (4 children)

    by zocalo (302) on Wednesday July 12 2017, @07:40PM (#538259)
    It's essentially Red Hat's "stable" test bed (as opposed to an LTS or Testing release), so yes, it comes with systemd, and usually updates to the current release fairly quickly.
    No, it's 100% free of such blatent OS level "phone home" stuff. Individual apps will do their usual things though, and that may include some form of phoning home (YMMV as to what qualifies).
    It's Gnome 3 by default (Red Hat again), but you can easily switch to several alternatives that include some minimalist WMs directly from the main repo if that's your thing. A LiveCD, plus a number of dedicated spins for specific desktop environments and usage cases are available as well.

    It may have fallen a little out of favour and stagnated a bit when Ubuntu and Mint came along but it's actually evolved back into quite a nice distro over the last several releases, provided that systemd is behaving itself of course. Third party package support is excellent too; definitely on a par with Ubuntu or Debian's repos in terms of selection, especially once you factor in the main add-on repos. Pretty much my go-to VM when I need to do something on the RPM branch of the distro tree, and probably worth another look if you've skipped the last few releases.
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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by digitalaudiorock on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:04PM (1 child)

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:04PM (#538417) Journal

    It's essentially Red Hat's "stable" test bed

    From what I see and read about systemd, I'd argue that...despite what their customers might think...RHEL7 is Red Hat's "stable" test bed...and yes, those are air quotes.

    • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:16AM

      by zocalo (302) on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:16AM (#538640)
      Arguably that started with RHEL6, at least in so far as that's the release that initiated a project I was involved in to evaluate alternative distros and identify candidates and potential issues with a possible migration (not entirely down to systemd, although it was a factor). The follow-up project was a migration to BSD for a large chunk of production servers which is now in it's final stages - basically just mopping up systems where there are compatibility issues or some such.
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:51PM (1 child)

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:51PM (#538443) Journal

    Are there any other "user beware" for Fedora?

    • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:21AM

      by zocalo (302) on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:21AM (#538641)
      No, not really. Once you've switched to your preferred desktop and got things configured how you like them, systemd is the only real fly in the ointment. That said, since this *is* one of systemd's main distros and Poettering is more on the hook if something breaks, it's generally pretty well configured, fairly stable and "just works" - for a value of "just works" that allows for systemd's usual and extensive list of idiosyncracies. Unless you are specifically limiting your distro choice to systemd free releases like the BSDs, Devuan, etc., then it's at least worth a look.
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