Fedora 26 approaches it's end of life

Following the release of Fedora 28, it's second predecessor, Fedora 26 is approaching it's end of life. Fedora 26 will officially complete it's life cycle on 1st June 2018 after serving 325 days. Within this time period Fedora 26 has received around 10,000 updates from Fedora community.

Fedora 26 Preview

The Fedora Magazine has published a blog post announcing the end of period of Fedora 26 and it also includes some statistics on Fedora 26 release.

As readers may be aware, Fedora 28 recently released to great acclaim. That means Fedora 26 hits its End of Life (EOL) status on June 1, 2018. Read more here about what this means, and what steps you can take with your older Fedora systems.

After June 1, packages in the Fedora 26 repositories no longer receive any security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. Furthermore, at that point the community adds no new packages to the F26 collection.

The Fedora Project highly recommends you upgrade all systems to Fedora 28 or Fedora 27 before the EOL date. Upgrades are an easy way to keep your system setup while you move to the latest technology.

Fedora 26 was released in July 2017. During its lifetime, the Fedora community published nearly 10,000 updates to the F26 repositories. Fedora 26 Workstation featured version 3.24 of GNOME. The release also carried numerous improvements and highlights like A new partitioning tool in Anaconda for expert setup, DNF 2.5 with new software management capabilities and The Python Classroom Lab which helps educators introduce students to the latest technology

You can refer original blog post to know more on Fedora 26 and Fedora life cycle. You may also read our gallery page for Fedora, to know more about Fedora.

Fedora 28 released with improved battery life, modular repositories and more

Mr Mattthew Miller, the Fedora project leader has announced the release of Fedora 28, latest stable release popular open source operating system. This release includes Fedora Workstation, cloud and server editions and also numerous fedora community spins feature variety of desktop environments and targeting diverse audience.

One of the biggest highlight of Fedora workstation is inclusion of GNOME 3.28 which comes with various enhancements like improved File, Contacts, and a new app called Usage to analyze the system performance and resource usage on real time. The Fedora Workstation also offers improved battery life on laptops with several performance tuning and optimizations. Also, the VirtualBox Guest additions has bee included by default to provide better experience in virtual environments.

A glimpse of Fedora 28 Workstation. Courtesy : DistroScreens

Another notable improvement in Fedora 28 is easiness with which the 3rd party repositories can be enabled. When a user launches Software Center (aka GNOME Software) for the first time, they'll be asked whether to configure 3rd party repositories or not. Enabling 3rd party repositories ensure the availability of popular proprietary packages like Google Chrome, PyCharm, NVidia drivers, Steam client ..etc on Software Centre.

A notable highlight of Fedora 28 server edition is inclusion of modular repositories. In enable users to install/remove packages belonging to a particular version of a software like NodeJS on DJANGO.

Hey everyone! It’s May, right around Mother’s Day in many countries, and that means it’s time for the next Fedora operating system release: Fedora 28 is here!

Fedora Workstation is built on GNOME (now version 3.28). If you’re interested in other popular desktop environments like KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, and more, check out Fedora Spins. Or, for versions of Fedora tailored to special use cases like Astronomy, Design, Security, Robotics, or teaching Python, see Fedora Labs. If you want a Fedora environment to build on in EC2, OpenStack, and other cloud environments, there’s the Fedora Cloud Base. Plus, we’ve got network installers, other architectures (like Power and 64-bit ARM), BitTorrent links, and more at Fedora Alternative Downloads. And, not to be forgotten: if you’re looking to put Fedora on a Raspberry Pi or other ARM device, get images from the Fedora ARM page.

Once again, this release marks the best one yet. It’s no surprise, because it’s the result of dedication, love, and many hours of hard work from thousands of Fedora contributors every year. Thank you so much to this amazing community for making this happen.

For more information on Fedora 28 and Fedora in general, checkout Fedora 28 release announcement, Fedora 28 features, and our gallery page for Fedora 28. 

Fedora 24 reaches end of life

Serving 13 months of support period, Fedora 24 is approaching it's end of life. This release is officially scheduled to hit it's support period end on 8th August 2017. After this, the packages in Fedora 24 repository won't get any security updates and no more packages will be added to the repository.

Unlike many other distribution, Fedora does not keep hard dead lines for releases. The general rule is, a release will go out of support in a small time after release of it's second successor. Following this rule, Fedora 24 is ready to leave it's support period with recent release of Fedora 26. If there is anyone still using Fedora 24, it is highly recommended to upgraded to recent releases such as Fedora 25 and Fedora 26.

Fedora 24 was officially released on June 2016. It was shipped with Linux Kernel 4.5 and GNOME 3.20. Over the 13 months, it has received around 10500 updates.

Fedora Magazine has published one official blog post on Fedora 24 end of life.

With the recent release of Fedora 26, Fedora 24 officially enters End Of Life (EOL) status on August 8th, 2017. After August 8th, all packages in the Fedora 24 repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. Furthermore, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 24 collection.

Upgrading to Fedora 25 or Fedora 26 before August 8th 2017 is highly recommended for all users still running Fedora 24.

Fedora 24 was released in June 2016. During this time the Fedora Community published over 10 500 updates to the Fedora 24 Repositories. Fedora 24 released with version 4.5 of the Linux kernel, and Fedora Workstation featured version 3.20 of GNOME.

Fedora 26 released with GCC 7, Golang 1.8 and thousands of other improvements

Keeping the habit of publishing stable releases on every 6 months, Fedora project has released Fedora 26, latest stable release of independent GNU/Linux distribution backed by Red Hat Inc. This release brings thousands for updated packages from various upstream projects and other under the improvements to provide more reliable and stable experience to the end users.

Fedora 26 release includes variations like Workstation edition - the desktop cum laptop edition, server edition and Fedora atomic host for deploying on cloud instances. You can also  find different Fedora spins and lab editions if you are looking for an alternative desktop environment or a customized distribution oriented towards some specific fields like security assessments, gaming or design respectively.

Fedora Workstation is built on GNOME (now version 3.24). If you’re interested in other popular desktop environments like KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, and more, check out Fedora Spins. Or, for versions of Fedora tailored to special use cases like Astronomy, Design, Security, or Robotics, see Fedora Labs. STEM teachers, take advantage of the new Python Classroom, which makes it a breeze to set up an instructional environment with Vagrant, Docker containers, a Live USB image, or traditional installation.

If you want a Fedora environment to build on in EC2, OpenStack, and other cloud environments, there’s the Fedora Cloud Base. Plus, we’ve got network installers, other architectures (like Power and aarch64), BitTorrent links, and more at Fedora Alternative Downloads. And, not to be forgotten: if you’re looking to put Fedora on a Raspberry Pi or other ARM device, get images from the Fedora ARM page.

For more information and other related resources, see original announcement published on Fedora Magazine.

Fedora 26 beta released; Final release is coming on July

Mr Eduar Lucena has announced availability of Fedora 26 beta for testing. This release announcement is applicable for different Fedora flavors like Fedora workstation, server edition, atomic host and other Fedora spins, lab editions..etc.

The final release of Fedora 26 is scheduled to release on July 2017. Unlike many other GNU/Linux distributions, Fedora releases are not just about packages updates. It is also about a fresh collection of innovations. Fedora releases comes with latest and greatest experimental technologies.

Some of the key highlights common in all Fedora 26 variations can be summarized as:

• Fedora, always in the path of innovation, will ship with the latest version of the GNU Compiler Collection, also known as GCC, bringing the latest language features and optimizations to users and to the software we build. Also the Go Language is updated to the latest version, 1.8, which includes 32-bits MIPS support and speed
• One of the most important changes is the addition of “blivet-gui” to the installer. This provides a “building-blocks” style partitioning GUI for sysadmins and enthusiast users who are familiar with the details of storage systems.
• The Workstation edition of Fedora 26 Beta features GNOME 3.24, which includes important changes like Night Light, which changes the color temperature of the display based on time of day. It also includes the latest update of LibreOffice.

For more information, see original announcement published in Fedora Magazine.

Fedora 26 Alpha released

The Fedora project has announced public availability of Fedora 26 Alpha for testing. This is first development release of Fedora 26 which is scheduled to release later in this year. This release announcement is applicable for all variations of Fedora such as Fedora Workstation, Fedora spins, Fedora Lab and ARM distributions.

For the first time, Fedora Spins also includes LXQt flavor, a lightweight, Qt based desktop environment which is expected to be a replacement for LXDE in near future.

A detailed list of changes approved for Fedora 26 can be found in approved change set published in Fedora Wiki pages. Some of those changes are already in place and mature enough. While some other changes are cutting edge and another set of changes are yet to be implemented. Following are some notable highlights expected in Fedora 26 final release.

• GNOME 3.24
• Enable resolving all users through the sss NSS modules for better performance. 
• A new Python Classroom Lab will be created in 3 variants: Workstation based, Docker based and Vagrant based
• A preview release for modular server
• Update to GCC 7.x and build all or some of the packages with it. If it is not possible to build all of the packages against GCC 7.x, then target it for Fedora 27.
• Golang 1.8
• Ruby 2.4
• Enable systemd core dump by default. Later this can be accessed using coredump tool.
• Retire the xorg-x11-drv-synaptics driver and remove it from user's install.
• Update package manager DNF to version 2.0
• Update python to version 3.6

You may also find release announcement in Fedora Magazine.

Fedora 26 Alpha Download Links

Fedora 26 Workstation ISO (1.3 GB / 64 BIT) 

Fedora 26 Workstation ISO (1.4 GB / 32 BIT) 

Fedora 25 is not something worth to recommend : review

It has been a few months since release of Fedora 25. It was the first Fedora release to feature wayland as default window manager. Also it comes with latest stable release of GNOME, ie, GNOME 3.22.

Mr Gary Nevel, author at Everyday Linux User portal has revisited Fedora after two years. Despite of his love Fedora, he has reached in a conclusion that, it is not a distribution that can be recommended to others. He also remarks that Fedora 23 was a cool distribution. The major drawbacks of Fedora 25 listed in review includes, lack of support for multimedia files even after installing codecs, unavailability of popular proprietary packages such as steam and google chrome in GNOME Software - graphical front end for software installation. He also criticizes that, there many crashes and error notifications which is a serious question over usability of distribution.

I have always loved Fedora but I love music more and the amount of hassle and the amount of hoops I have had to jump through to try and get it working this time is just not worth the effort. The Google Chrome thing is also an issue for me. It works fine in openSUSE so why is it not working in Fedora?

Wayland seems to be performing well enough and I haven't experienced any problems that seem to be related to the graphical side of things.

Unfortunately I have witnessed far too many errors, notifications, application crashes and general pointless pain to be able to recommend Fedora 25. Fedora 23 worked great, 25 doesn't.

Read complete review on Every Day Linux User blog.

Fedora 25 is mature enough, but sacrifices speed and stability

Fedora 25 is an interesting distribution that is more mature and ready to be used in production systems. Though it has reduced performance and stability issues corresponding to it's predecessor, Fedora 25 - Observes a review of Fedora 25 published in dedoimedo portal.

On positive side, Fedora 25 is reasonably elegant and functional and it will let you to play any videos and musics if sufficient plugins are installed using 3rd party repositories. While you will have to spend some time to make the system usable in day to day life. And also package management eats significant amount of system resources which may be caused by newly introduced Wayland. The review continues.

All right. Brace yourselves. It's Fedora time. Throughout 2016, a gloomy year for the likes of us, Linux users, Fedora has been a friendly companion. It made me like and use Gnome again, plus it offered a pleasant, vibrant, practical desktop experience that nicely filled the gap left by Ubuntu. Almost like a dental crown.

We also learned how to pimp it, and I have a whole bunch of surprises laid out ahead of us, including yet more elegant tweaking and taming, reviews on other hardware, some revolutionary usability tricks, and still more. But all that will happen in the future. Now, we should focus on Fedora 25, and see how it stacks against its predecessor, as well as the entire Linux ecosystem. No pressure.

Read complete review in dedoimedo portal.

Fedora 25 Workstation Screenshots

Fedora docker layered image build service is announced

Marking another milestone in the history of Fedora project, Mr Adam Miller has announced availability of Fedora docker layered image build service for the community contributing to Fedora project. This new service will facilitate building of trustworthy and consistent application images for Fedora Atomic, CentOS Atomic and other related platforms.

With this announcement we are opening availability of the Docker Layered Image Build Service for the Docker Layered Images that the Fedora Cloud SIG has been the primary maintainers of on GitHub into DistGit as official components of Fedora. From there we will be extending an invitation to all Fedora Contributors to maintain Docker Layered Image Containers for official release by the Fedora Project. Currently this effort is to enable the Fedora Cloud/Atomic WG goals which target Fedora Atomic Host as a primary deliverable to power the future of Cloud. This is also to enable the Fedora Modularity work be delivered as Containers in the future as Fedora becomes fundamentally more modular in nature.

For more details, see official announcement published in project atomic blog.

Korora 25 Gurgle released in 5 different flavors

Mr ozjd of Korora project has announced availability of Korora 25 Gurgle, latest stable release of Fedora based GNU/Linux distribution that combines powerful Fedora core with usability improvements such as well tweaked themes, out of the box multimedia support, and additional repositories to provide various free/non-free packages. Korora 25 is coming in 4 different flavors which are GNOME, Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce editions.

CREDIT : Korora Project

Korora 25 being a distribution based on Fedora 25, delivers all updated packages from Fedora 25. Following are notable highlights of this release.

• Considering the popular demand, KDE Plasma release is brought back. Though due to work load on team, this release will be more like a vanilla Plasma experience. However, it will be benefited by additional Korora packages.
• Cinnamon 3.2 - Latest stable release of Cinnamon till date. It brings several improvements.
• GNOME 3.22 which offers more responsive user experience and also improved support for Wayland compositor.
• MATE 1.16 - latest bug fix release of project.
• Xfce 4.12 which mainly focus on polishing the desktop and improving the user experience in various ways.
• Other updates from Fedora 25
• This release only includes 64 bit images. Though existing 32 bit users can upgrade their system.  

You can find official release announcement in Korora Project website.