Fedora has a big new release available in version 38 which came a bit early. As usual lots of new features and fixes, plus a fancy new Budgie desktop spin.
You can grab it as the main Fedora Workstation which includes an upgrade to GNOME 44 that's filled full of new features like the thumbnail view in the file picker, a new lock screen, enhanced quick settings with a "background apps" section, improvements to accessibility settings, better Flatpak support along with the new unfiltered view of applications on Flathub and so on. The Fedora team also made an adjustment to make shut downs faster.
Pictured - Fedora Workstation 38
This release also brings with it new official spins (alternative desktop environments) like the Budgie Desktop, "Sericea" that comes with the Sway window manager in an rpm-ostree version and a Phosh image for mobile devices. This is in addition to the existing spins with KDE, Xfce and more.
Pictured - Fedora Budgie 38.
Various other upgrades like the inclusion of the updated dnf5 package manager for testing that has performance improvements, a smaller memory footprint, and a new daemon that can provide an alternative to PackageKit.
See the release announcement for more. They also have a brand new website.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: HohlraumI love what Fedora does but once I started using other package systems 25+ years ago it's really hard to give up the massive package repositories provided by deb and arch based distributions. Finally, they've tried for years to improve the speed of their package managers but they are terrible every time I give them a try.
In the era of Flatpaks, I find myself using system packages much less often for user-facing applications nowadays. For CLI developer tools, traditional packages are still the way to go, but it's rare for me not to find them in the Fedora repositories. If I find a CLI tool that isn't packaged, it's usually not packaged in any Linux distribution outside of Arch's AUR.
Last edited by Calinou on 18 April 2023 at 5:32 pm UTC
wvstolzing Apr 18, 2023
Quoting: HohlraumI love what Fedora does but once I started using other package systems 25+ years ago it's really hard to give up the massive package repositories provided by deb and arch based distributions. Finally, they've tried for years to improve the speed of their package managers but they are terrible every time I give them a try.
A rewrite of dnf (dnf5 -> https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/about.html) is supposed to become default on Fedora 39. It can be installed on F38 too; though I believe it conflicts in undocumented ways with the stock dnf.
Allegedly it's faster, with less complicated cli options, etc.
Quoting: CalinouIn the era of Flatpaks, I find myself using system packages much less often for user-facing applications nowadays. For CLI developer tools, traditional packages are still the way to go, but it's rare for me not to find them in the Fedora repositories. If I find a CLI tool that isn't packaged, it's usually not packaged in any Linux distribution outside of Arch's AUR.Same. I basically go for Flathub first before anywhere else when looking for apps now.
Arehandoro Apr 18, 2023
Perkeleen_Vittupää Apr 18, 2023
Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: CalinouIn the era of Flatpaks, I find myself using system packages much less often for user-facing applications nowadays. For CLI developer tools, traditional packages are still the way to go, but it's rare for me not to find them in the Fedora repositories. If I find a CLI tool that isn't packaged, it's usually not packaged in any Linux distribution outside of Arch's AUR.Same. I basically go for Flathub first before anywhere else when looking for apps now.
So what i gather, this basically means that one doesn't have to enable RPMFusion (free nor non-free) anymore via terminal commands after installing Fedora
Also Fedora is my current daily driver. Just upgraded from 37 to 38 today, and I barely notice a difference other than the version number. To me that's a win.
The continued stability of Fedora just gave me that bit of needed confidence to delve into the wild world of tiling window managers, and while my setup is still very frogging atrocious, I am very happy with it, and can't wait for it to improve, config line by config line.
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