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: 4, Interesting) by Subsentient on Wednesday May 01 2019, @04:18AM (1 child)
I hate systemd, I really do. Hell, I wrote my own init system, Epoch. (Epoch's site/my server's down due to a move, wait a few days for it to come online again)
But Fedora is good. Despite systemd, Fedora is good. The dnf package manager is rock solid, the OS is nearly impossible to kill by stuff like a power outage during an update, the packages are bleeding edge and largely untampered with (looking at you, Debian and openSUSE), and the filesystem layout is much less aneurysm inducing than Debian and friends.
I've tried distro hopping many times, but unless I have time to compile SubLinux 3 (I don't), I'm sticking with Fedora, as I have since 2008.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:55PM
Tuned and a lot of other Redhat tools are really cool too.