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Fedora 23 Final May Release As Planned On October 27

Posted by Soulskill on from the hitting-your-mark dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Updating a full OS distribution is no small task so it is usually no surprise that even a 5-6 month schedule may tend to get pushed back to address issues. However, the Fedora 23 release schedule made it through the Alpha, Beta and Final freeze periods so far on time. This has been accomplished despite having to address plenty of Alpha Blocker and Beta Blocker bugs. Now all that is left is to clear existing and future Final Blocker bugs in the next two weeks. The release of Fedora 23 will provide some nice incremental updates and should result in the end of life of Fedora 21 around the end of November.

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  1. But the real question is... by SurfMan · · Score: 2

    can we now run Gnome3 over VNC without the "Oh No! Something has gone wrong." message?

  2. Obligatory systemd comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But blah blah systemd blah blah Why, I've already migrated all of the servers in my basement to FreeBSD but I feel obligated to keep blah blahing about systemd blah blah.

  3. Plasma 5 fiasco by Pow.R+Toc.H · · Score: 4, Informative

    After the Plasma 5 fiasco, which wasn't ready for production, really, I took the plunge and switched to Kubuntu 14.04 LTS. It sucks to update your distro every 6 months, and it sucks even more to update distros having the feeling that one is in permanent beta. Nowadays I don't care about "beautiful desktop" and bells and whistles in general, I just need a stable and working environment. Still thinking what to do with wifey's notebook, though. But I'll probably go through the same route.

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    1. Re:Plasma 5 fiasco by donaldm · · Score: 2

      I have been running Fedora since Fedora Core 7 and the only major issue that I had was KDE 4.0. Basically I had no choice since my wife was getting annoyed but to switch to Gnome at the time although when KDE4.1 came out I switched us back.

      Basically I have never done a Fedora upgrade since I always do a fresh install because that is the fastest way (at least for me) of going from one major release to another. I actually do this for commercial Unix/Linux machines (HPUX, AIX, Solaris and Redhat) when moving from one major release to another and have always finished well within the time allocated.

      The latest Fedora's 21 and 22 have actually been incredibly easy and quick to install, taking me about 30 minutes for the installation, 15 minutes for customization, another 15/20 minutes to add addition applications and about an hour to do the updates. It must be noted that after customization the OS is fully functional and you can be doing things even during the update process. Of course it does help that I keep my system file-systems apart from my user file-systems which would take well over 6 hours to recover if I was stupid enough to delete them.

      Neither I or my wife have had any issues with Fedora 21 and now Fedora 22 since a day one install.

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  4. Re:Fedora LTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't it called CentOS?

  5. Re:Fedora LTS by Zappy · · Score: 2

    You need to update _only_ once a year. They support the current and previous version.