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Fedora 23 Released (fedoramagazine.org)

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Today marks the release of Fedora 23 for all three main editions: Workstation, Cloud, and Server. This release brings GNOME 3.18, Libre Office 5.0, and Fedora Spins — alternate desktops that provide a different experience. Fedora 23 also includes a version optimized for running on ARM-based systems. You can read the full release notes on their website. "Fedora 23 also has important under-the-hood security improvements, with increased hardening for all compiled software and with insecure SSL3 and RC4 protocols disabled. We've also updated all of the software installed by default in Fedora Cloud Base Image and Fedora Workstation to use Python version 3, and the Mono .NET compatible framework is now at version 4. Perhaps most importantly, Unicode 8.0 support now enables the crucial U1F32D character."

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  1. Unicode 8 support by Guy+Harris · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps most importantly, Unicode 8.0 support now enables the crucial U1F32D character.

    Hot dog!

  2. And finally VNC support? by SurfMan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But the real question is: can we finally, after all these years, run a Gnome 3 session over a VNC connection without getting the "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" error and the ridiculous workarounds for that?

  3. Re:Running with kde5 since the beta by Lirodon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, it's just that Fedora hates KDE, and this is pretty much intentional. It's a Gnome distro, first and foremost. One of Fedora's KDE co-maintainers actually stepped down