Fedora 30, the newest release of the venerable Linux distribution that serves (in part) as the staging environment for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, was released Tuesday, bringing with it a number of improvements and performance optimizations. Fedora 30 uses GCC 9.0, bringing modest performance improvements across all applications that have been recompiled using the new version, as noted by Linux benchmarking website Phoronix.
The new version includes some quality-of-life improvements, for which work began in previous versions. These include the new flicker-free boot process, which hides the GRUB loader/kernel select screen by default, and relies on some creative theming to incorporate the bootsplash image from your hardware into the loading process. This also makes updating software through the Software Center a more seamless process.
If it has been some time since you've taken a look at Fedora, the release of Fedora 30 is a great opportunity to become re-acquainted with the long-running Linux distribution. Improvements to GNOME have redeemed the usability of Fedora well after the initial release of the GNOME 3.x series, while greater attention to usability for users who are not necessarily IT professionals puts it on the same level for ease-of-use as Ubuntu.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 30 2019, @11:20PM (4 children)
Sorry, LXDE FTW.
(hey man, at least I cared to comment. It may well be that the set of soylenters who use gnome 3 is empty)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @08:06AM (1 child)
https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/lxde/ [fedoraproject.org]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday May 01 2019, @08:19AM
Already using it on top of Devuan. As a plus, no systemd - makes me a happy camper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @09:13AM
Gnome3 .. Is that the pile of shit Ubuntu 18.04 LTS uses in place of unity?
I can't say I hated or liked unity. The close on too left was irritating but other than that it was my desktop for 3 years. A good run.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS lasted less than an hour. What the heck were they thinking? Do they use the OS they create?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 01 2019, @04:11PM
Yeah, I'm with you there. LXDE and XFCE in my case. I was a Gnome fan for years and years, but 3 broke me. It was a difficult time of many betrayals: 3, Unity, Beta, Lollipop.
Washington DC delenda est.