What's new in Fedora 24
Topics
- Workstation
- Server
- Cloud
- Spins and Labs
- ARM
- Alternative Fedora Architectures
- Make Fedora Even Better
Workstation
- GNOME 3.20
- new shortcuts overlays which helps users to learn keyboard shortcuts for commands
- Searching is made easier in Files application
- Deafult font centarell is now more reliable
- Now manage printer jobs through a single user interface
- Mouse setting are cutomized to show you the right options for your hardware
- Graphical upgrade from fedora 23 to fedora 24
- Flatpak Support
- A new way to package apps for Linux system
- more secure and donot depend on what's installed already on your system
- Developers can create flatpak apps that can run on any systen having flatpak suppot
- Fedora 24 has now flatpak support
- Addition of LibreOffice 5.1
- Now imports Gnumeric, Microsoft write and Apple keynote 6 documents
- Uses GTK3 toolkit by default
- Runs natively on Wayland
- Technology preview of Wayland
- Wayland is a next generation graphical stack
- Fedora 24 continues to work on the X replacment
- It will be the default stack in Fedora 24
- Some major improvements
- firefox 47
- inclusion of shotwell-0.23.1
- Mono 4.2, Node.js 5.10, Python 3.5, Ruby 2.3 and Golang 1.6, GCC-6 compiler
- Network Manager 1.2
Server
- Server image is more streamlined by removing unnecessary packages
- FreeIPA 4.3 is major addition.
- FreeIPA is an integrated security information management solution.
- Simplified replica installation and improved replication technology management.
Cloud
- Includes OpenShift Origin
- Platform as a Service system based around Kubernetes, a production-grade container orchestration project
- Optimized for application development and delivery
- Run Fedora Cloud image on Amazon EC2 or on your OpenStack Cloud with all the Fedora Software available
- Introducing developer mode in Atomic Host
- The host will be downloaded automatically and start cockpit and tmux session
- to make it easier to work at the console and obtain necessary information such as the root password or IP address.
Some Other Highlights
- Fedora Spins:
- KDE Plasma 5, MATE 1.14, Xfce 4.12, LXDE 0.99.1 and Cinnamon 2.6
- Fedora Labs
- Addition of a new lab focused on Astronomy
- Alternative Fedora arch release
- AArch64, Power64 (ppc64, ppc64le) and s390x for the first time
- AArch64 and Power64 now have support for golang, nodejs, mongodb
- Arm
- A minimal Fedora image completes the wide set of install options for your ARM board.
Make Fedora Even Better
- Contribute to Fedora