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After a slight, week-long delay to fix some last minute bugs, the Fedora project has released Fedora 23. The latest version of Fedora is a significant update thanks to upstream projects like GNOME, which is now at 3.18, as well as some signficant new features from Fedora itself.
Like it's precessor, Fedora 23 comes in three base configurations -- Workstation, Server and Cloud. The former is the desktop release and the primary basis for my testing, though I also tested out the Server release this time around.
The default Fedora 23 live CD will install the GNOME desktop though there are plenty spins available if you prefer something else. I opted for GNOME since a lot of what's new in GNOME, like much improved Wayland support is currently only really available through Fedora.
I have been hard on Fedora's Anaconda installer in the past, but I am slowly coming around. The installation experience in Fedora 23 is hard to beat, particularly the way you don't need to visit sections if Fedora has guessed something right. For example, Anaconda correctly guest my timezone so I can just skip that panel without even needing to click okay. It's a small thing, but it helps set a certain tone of feature completeness right from the start.
I still think the button-based approach of Anaconda can sometimes make it hard to figure out what you've missed if it's your first time using it the installer. But it's a little clearer in Fedora 23 because there's an additional orange bar across the bottom to tell you about whatever you missed.
What's perhaps most encouraging about Anaconda is that Fedora continues to refining it. Having just installed and tested Ubuntu and openSUSE, I wouldn't hesitate to say Anaconda is a better experience than either. It's certainly faster thanks to the amount of stuff you can simply ignore.
Once you've got Fedora WorkStation installed the first thing you'll likely notice is GNOME 3.18.
GNOME 3.18, and Wayland if you want it
For Fedora Workstation, much of the new goodness is thanks to GNOME 3.18. While GNOME is technically an upstream desktop project any Linux distribution can use, Fedora’s developers spend time working on GNOME and are closely involved.
Those big improvements in GNOME 3.18 are now here in stable form. You can now access your Google Drive account right from the file manager. Support for light sensors means that the GNOME desktop can now automatically adjust your backlight level to save power.
Search is much faster in nautilus
Among the bigger news in GNOME Software is new support for firmware updates via fwupd. The firmware support means means you won't need any proprietary tools nor will you have to resort to pulling out the bootable DVDs. The catch -- and its a big one at the moment -- is that the vendor for your needs to upload the firmware to the <a href="https://http://www.fwupd.org/">Linux Vendor Firmware Service</a>.
Xdg-app—a GNOME project to create cross-distribution sandboxed applications —is now part of Fedora 23 and installed by default, too. It’s still experimental, however, and you won’t see many applications distributed this way yet except as proofs of concept. The GNOME Software application will eventually be able to properly manage and update these apps, but that’s something for a future release.
Now way to package desktop apps that will make them available across distributions. It also has some sandboxing tools.
## Fedora 23
" Fedora 23 Server gains a new role via the rolekit service in the form of a cache server for web applications, powered by memcached, bringing the total number of roles to three alongside the database server and domain controller roles. Additional tweaks and upgrades include the ability to use rolekit from the anaconda kickstart, a cluster dashboard for Kubernetes and support for SSH key authentication.
Fedora 23 Workstation brings a preview of GNOME 3.18 as well as changes to the Software application (allowing it to update firmware) and Wayland, with the latter enhancements aimed at helping to make Wayland the default graphic server for future releases.
Fedora 23 Cloud does not have any obvious improvements, but enhancements continue to deliver a more secure and flexible image for cloud-based deployments. Additionally, Fedora 23 Cloud is expected to power the forthcoming Fedora Atomic Host which is anticipated to have a two-week release cadence moving forward. "
## Installation
##GNOME
## Wayland
HiDPI support in Office and support for two different monitors resolution in Wayland DPI-independent resolution.
GTK hires compatible LibreOffice
###Bad UI decision
Files Copying
The Files browser, also known as Nautilus, now gives progress feedback when copying or moving large files. A button in the header bar allows you to see progress at a glance. Searching and renaming files in the file browser is now also quicker and easier to use.
There’s now better support for your Google Drive contents, too. If you’ve set up a Google online account in the Control Center, you’ll see your Google Drive contents in Files, with a shortcut to Drive in the sidebar.
## Kernel
version 4.2 of the Linux kernel itself.
ne important new change is the shift to DNF for system upgrades. Fedora’s old fedup tool for upgrading from one release of Fedora to another is gone. Operating system upgrades are now handled by DNF, Fedora’s new package management tool that replaced yum back in Fedora 22 . This uses systemd’s support for offline system updates and can roll them back if necessary. If you’re upgrading from one version of Fedora to another, you’ll need to use the DNF tools instead.
## SErver
Cockpit
The Fedora 23 package comes with the state-of-the-art Cockpit. It is a web-based management console which is accessed through a web browser and aims to make the server status and monitoring tasks much simpler.
Red Hat's admin monitoring interface. Visually managing services, containers. It makes maintaining systems in s secure easy to update fashion approachable to a far wider audience than CLI tools alone. It makes these services more accessible to more people, deploying things in a way that's secure and approachable. It's beating Apple's "just works" philosophy at its own game.
Red Hat - Microsoft deal.
## DNF upgrade process
there is no LTS release, which means system upgrades have to be good. And they are.
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