from the nothing-like-the-bleeding-edge dept.
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:
- Get Fedora 26 Workstation
- Get Fedora 26 Server
- Get Fedora 26 Atomic Host ← includes click-to-launch link for Amazon EC2
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.
Related Stories
Fedora developer and Program manager, Ben Cotton, opens up about what happened when he fat-fingered a script to automatically close bugs as Fedora 29 reached End-Of-Life the other day. When version 29 reached EOL, he accidentally also closed several thousand other bugs which should have remained open. He writes about how that happened.
Simply put: I messed up. When I created the CSV file, I neglected to specify the version in the Bugzilla search. As a result, I had a CSV file with 20,000 bugs. I started the script and it processed approximately 150 bugs before the community noticed that bugs were being closed inappropriately.
Earlier on SN:
Fedora 30 Brings Immense Quality of Life Improvements to Linux on the Desktop (2019)
Fedora 26 Released (2017)
Fedora 25 Released (2016)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @05:59PM
Real nigger penguins have the blackest feathers and the thickest beaks and the snuggest cloacas.
My dick cums so hard when I ram it to a Nigger Penguin wearing a Cowboy Hat.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday July 12 2017, @06:30PM (7 children)
Questions:
* Is it systemd doomed?
* Will it Ubuntu Shopping Lens default phone-home?
* Make use of some GUI that suck all CPU and memory it can detect?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @06:35PM
If you don't like systemd you'll love the drop-in replacement NiggerD.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday July 12 2017, @07:25PM
You bet your pinko fedora it is!
* Will it Ubuntu Shopping Lens default phone-home?
Someone should really test it and see how much of that it's doing today, I honestly don't know.
* Make use of some GUI that suck all CPU and memory it can detect?
GNOME. If you can call that a GUI.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 4, Informative) by zocalo on Wednesday July 12 2017, @07:40PM (4 children)
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.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 3, Touché) by digitalaudiorock on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:04PM (1 child)
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
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:51PM (1 child)
Are there any other "user beware" for Fedora?
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Thursday July 13 2017, @09:21AM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @07:41PM (1 child)
congrats on the release but i wonder if fedora team has slapped the shit out of whoever was making gnome software so windows like. if you want to update on reboot and all that jazz, just do it for the kernel and stuff that actually needs it, do the rest in the background while in runlevel 5 and don't ask the user about shit. settings are fine, but not notifications, etc. the option for full auto updating without any user harassment or intervention should be a goal if not already implemented. or if the user prefers to be notified about updates fine. but not about restarting the goddamn computer. you can mention that using the new kernel will require a reboot in the gui itself, but not with anotification or popup or anything stupid like that. how in the hell did that windowsesque nagging get through QA to begin with? does it still do that? how many linux using devs do you think want their os acting like windows? ridiculous!
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:02AM
What is so MS-Windows like about Gnome?
(Score: 2) by driven on Wednesday July 12 2017, @09:45PM (2 children)
Anybody know what the state of Perl 6 is in the latest Fedora?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:54PM (1 child)
Hasn't Perl been overtaken by Python lemmings?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @05:53AM
How many times did your mommy dropped you on yo head?
(Score: 2) by fishybell on Wednesday July 12 2017, @10:04PM
Welcome this news with open arms.
I may not be a dyed in the wool Fedora-ite, but I've been using it personally and professionally since Fedora Core 2. Although professionally, we migrated to CentOS 7 for the longer release life, I've had great luck using it in all of my personal computers.
Now to run an upgrade!
*me types*
result:
I seriously hate failing to remember which machines use plain ol' yum and which use the the dandified [wikipedia.org] version.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @04:45AM
Redhat wants to be the brand overshadowing Linux, hence poetterfuck and the nonsense. Maybe it will force me to go with BSD after all. System V Release 4.2. Fuck me.
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Thursday July 13 2017, @10:28AM
Back in the dawn of time, before there was Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, I installed Red Hat 6 or 7, which I kept upgrading up to Fedora 25, every six months or so. When Fedora switched to KDE 5, I found that KDE kept crashing left and right, so a few months ago I started looking for something better. I ended up installing openSUSE Tumbleweed. It is a lot more stable, although it is even more bleeding edge than Fedora, and it has the same feel as Fedora (it is RPM-based, and configuration files are in the same place as in Fedora). (On the minus side, openSUSE is systemd based...)
So, bully for you, Red Hat, for getting Fedora 26 out. I'm glad that you're proud of your latest release, but this is the first release that I will not be using, after all these years.