Fedora 25 released!
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The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
Fedora 25, the next big step our journey into the containerized, modular
future!
Fedora is a global community that works together to lead the advancement
of free and open source software. As part of the community’s mission the
project delivers three editions, each one a free, Linux-based operating
system tailored to meet specific use cases: Fedora 25 Atomic Host,
Fedora 25 Server, and Fedora 25 Workstation.
Each edition is built from a common set of base packages, which form the
foundation of the Fedora operating system. As with all new versions of
Fedora, Fedora 25 provides many bug fixes and tweaks to these underlying
components, as well as new and enhanced packages, including:
* Docker 1.12 for building and running containerized applications
* Node.js 6.5, the latest version of the popular server-side JavaScript
engine
* Support for Rust, a faster and more stable system programming language
* Multiple Python versions — 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 — to help run
test suites across several Python configurations, as well as PyPy,
PyPy3, and Jython
Fedora Workstation
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Providing many of the latest open source developer and desktop tools,
Fedora 25 Workstation delivers a host of new features, including the
long-awaited official debut of the Wayland display server. Replacing the
legacy X11 system, Wayland has been under development for several years
and seeks to provide a smoother, richer experience for graphical
environments and better capabilities for modern graphics hardware. To
further enhance ease-of-use, Fedora 25 Workstation also features GNOME
3.22, which offers multiple file renaming, a redesigned keyboard
settings tool and additional user interface improvements. Workstation
users will also be pleased with the inclusion of decoding support for
the MP3 media format.
Fedora 25 Workstation now makes it easier to for Windows and OS X users
to get started, with Fedora Media Writer serving as the default download
for those operating systems. This tool helps users find and download the
current Fedora release and write it to removable media, like a USB
stick, allowing potential Fedora users to “test drive” the operating
system from that media environment. Fedora can then be installed to
their systems with the same process.
Fedora Server
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In addition to the flexible multi-role functionality provided by
rolekit, Fedora 25 Server now delivers a new SELinux Troubleshooter
module for Cockpit. Similar to what is available on Fedora Workstation,
the module helps provide suggestions for a user when an SELinux denial
is encountered, which otherwise requires log checking and manual
workarounds.
Fedora 25 Server also will now display SSH keys in the Cockpit system
dashboard to make it easier for administrators to see what keys are
connecting to a given machine. Additionally, support is now included for
multi-step (including two-factor) authentication services.
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New in Fedora 25 is the addition of Fedora 25 Atomic Host as one of
Fedora’s three editions, replacing Fedora Cloud. While a Fedora Cloud
Base image will continue to be available for users seeking to run
workloads on a general purpose host, Fedora Atomic Host provides an
optimized host designed to create and deploy container-based workloads.
Fedora 25 Atomic Host is shipped in several formats, to allow users to
spin up virtual machines or install Atomic Host on bare metal. To keep
pace with innovations in the world of Linux containers, Fedora Atomic
Host is expected to be refreshed on a two-week release cycle (with major
releases coinciding with new Fedora versions) and provides an easy
upgrade path to accommodate rapid application development.
Fedora will also offer a docker-formatted base image, to be updated
monthly along with critical security updates, for use in building Linux
containers.
Spins and More
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These are not the only parts of Fedora that are seeing changes in the
release today. Our KDE spin features new and improved packages for
music, video, and personal information management. Xfce includes
improvements to the terminal, notifications, and power management.
Mate-Compiz features an update to Mate 1.16 and a complete switch to
the GTK+3 toolkit.
Downloads
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You can download the new Fedora 25 starting today!
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