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authorluxagraf <sng@luxagraf.net>2017-08-31 07:40:31 -0600
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The Server and Atomic Host releases are aimed at servers and container-based dep
Fedora 26 brings an updated kernel, version 4.11, Mesa 17.1.4, and jumps to GCC 7. More visible changes include the latest version of GNOME, 3.24, a new partitioning tool in the Anaconda installer, and much better support for ARM processors, notably an official version of Fedora for Raspberry Pi which appears to be much more stable than the previous release, which seemingly had more caveats than features.
-The most obvious change is the move the GNOME 3.24. GNOME 3.24, nicknamed Portland, ships with quite a few new features and improved applications, including Night Light. Night Light is a new settings panel that tints the color of your displays according to the time of day. In the even Night Light makes the screen color warmer, which helps prevent sleeplessness and eye strain.
+The most obvious change is the move the GNOME 3.24. GNOME 3.24, nicknamed Portland, ships with quite a few new features and improved applications, including Night Light. Night Light is a new settings panel that tints the color of your displays according to the time of day. In the evening Night Light makes the screen color warmer, which helps prevent sleeplessness and eye strain.
The screen color automatically tints based on the sunrise and sunset times for your location. You can manually control it as well if you like. The GNOME top bar shows when Night Light is on, and the system drop down menu allows you to turn it off temporarily. That's handy if you want to edit photos or similar because what you see is not what you get with Night Light.
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ GNOME 3.24 ships with a new app, Recipes, which contains recipes contributed by
Other GNOME applications updated 3.24 include Web, Photos, Polari (yes, GNOME still ships with an IRC client, because one day we'll all realize that IRC was amazing and go back to using it), Games, Calendar and the Calculator. Of these the most notable is photos which now adjusts your thumbnail size to make better use of the available space. Unfortunately Photos still has only very basic photo editing tools, but it does make a good photo organizer.
-GNOME Software continues to see improvements in this release with new icons to that make it easier to see which applications are installed. The installed applications view also now helpfully shows how how much disk space each application is taking up. The Software app has also improved Flatpak support with a couple minor new features though the number of apps available as Flatpaks remains disappointingly small.
+GNOME Software continues to see improvements in this release with new icons that make it easier to see which applications are installed. The installed applications view also now helpfully shows how how much disk space each application is taking up. The Software app has also improved Flatpak support with a couple minor new features though the number of apps available as Flatpaks remains disappointingly small.
As you scroll through that list of installed apps checking the installed size you'll probably notice one monster taking up more space than most, LibreOffice. Normally version bumps of LibreOffice are hardly worth mentioning, but this one contains the first look many users will get at the still in progress NotebookBar UI, which apes Microsoft Word's "Ribbon" interface. I happen to dislike Ribbon and by extension NotebookBar, but it will probably go a long way to making it easier for Office users to switch to LibreOffice. For the rest of us it's pretty easy to ignore -- for now anyway.
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I generally prefer to run GNOME with Fedora because the overlap of Fedora devs and GNOME devs is such that GNOME is nearly always just about flawless on Fedora and Fedora 26 is no exception. Even the wallpaper feels perfectly suited to the stock GNOME theme. I've been using Fedora 26 since the beta was released earlier this year and have yet to experience any showstopping bugs, though I did have to wait a bit for some apps as EPEL and Fusion support is often a little behind the main release.
-I've also got Fedora Server installed on a couple of VPS instance and haven't had any major issues there either. The server edition comes with one thing I haven't tested yet -- the new Fedora Modularity project. Support is listed as a "preview", not to be used in production, but the project is soliciting developer feedback. The idea is to build a system that lets you have some elements be cutting edge, say a new kernel and the latest development release of Node, but stick with the stable version of your favorite database. As the project homepage puts it, the Fedora modularity project is for "when you want a rolling release. But not really." It's a very interesting idea that bridges the gap between a traditionally super stable system, e.g. Red Hat and pure container based system like Fedora Atomic. If you'd like to learn more there's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4O8G9SZwqtkIAuKcT8-JpQ">Youtube channel</a> that has some really nice video overviews of features and project goals.
+I've also got Fedora Server installed on a couple of VPS instances and haven't had any major issues there either. The server edition comes with one thing I haven't tested yet -- the new Fedora Modularity project. Support is listed as a "preview", not to be used in production, but the project is soliciting developer feedback. The idea is to build a system that lets you have some elements be cutting edge, say a new kernel and the latest development release of Node, but stick with the stable version of your favorite database. As the project homepage puts it, the Fedora modularity project is for "when you want a rolling release. But not really." It's a very interesting idea that bridges the gap between a traditionally super stable system, e.g. Red Hat and pure container based system like Fedora Atomic. If you'd like to learn more there's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4O8G9SZwqtkIAuKcT8-JpQ">Youtube channel</a> that has some really nice video overviews of features and project goals.
In the mean time Fedora 26 makes a welcome update for the already very nice Fedora 25.
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+fedora-desktop.jpg - The stock Fedora desktop with its very nice wallpaper
+fedora-notifications.jpg - The GNOME notifications area now includes weather forecasts
+fedora-software.jpg - See how much disk space each installed application is using in Software