November 23, 2016 at 12:58Fedora 25. A New Hope: Wayland, Storaged, Raspberry Pi Support ...
On November 22, Fedora was launched again. The 25th release, in my opinion, turned out to be very successful:
- Replacing the old X.Org or X11 server with Wayland. X11-based session support saved as an option
- UDisks2 replaced by Storaged, providing a unified D-Bus API for managing LVM2, iSCSI, Btrfs, BCache, LSM and ZRam
- Support for Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 devices
- The minimal image of the root file system no longer has Perl;
- Added support for entering Unicode Emoji characters into the IBus input system by pressing the combination of Ctrl-Shift-e and the name of the symbol, for example, “Ctrl-Shift-e-smiley”;
- Recent versions of programming languages: PHP, NodeJS, Ruby, Haskell, Perl, Erlang, Go
- The structure includes the compiler of the programming language Rust + Cargo
- Optional: two-factor authentication
- The ability to easily switch between an integrated GPU and a discrete graphics card on laptops
→ More on the Fedora 25 release.
I switched from the 24th to Fedora 25 relatively recently. What pleasantly surprised me:
- RPM Fusion “free” and “nonfree” repositories for Fedora 25 appeared before the release, and not after it (as it was before)
- Contributors move better: MySQL offers a version for Fedora 25, VirtualBox also offers for the 25th version, many others have also fussed
- When upgrading, there were no problems with dependencies, in general they were comedic, but easily solved.
- Fresh kernel 4.8.8