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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @12:22AM (2 children)
Ah, thank you for the Missing Link. Now the 'evolution' is complete. You sure its not another dud archeological find?
Well, my quality of life will improve now. I really, really need a big improvement so this has my hopes up.
Question - is just downloading and having the ISO enough, or do I need to actually install it?
Could someone also please quantify the improvement I can expect?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @09:20AM (1 child)
Well boy do we have great news for you.
Cumming from Windows you will have great appreciation for systems, the core of RedHat.
You remember those heady days in Windows where something went wrong but you're not sure what and finding out why can be a pain in the ass. You are sure going to get on just swell with systems. The complete and utter person who had a large hand in its creation was thinking specifically of people like you when creating this Mon..er..u.entous piece of software. Come join the crowd at redhat. Two's company, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:30PM
yes, typing "systemctl" is sooo difficult.