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Fedora 25 Alpha Linux Distro Now Available (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the linux-delights dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Today, Fedora 25 Alpha sees a release. While the pre-release distribution is not ready for end users, it does give testers an early start at poking around.
Keep in mind what an Alpha release is folks -- this is pre-Beta. In other words, it is littered with bugs, and you should definitely not run it on a production machine. There are already some show-stopping known issues -- a couple are related to dual-booting with Windows (scary). One bug can destroy OS X data when dual-booting on a Mac!

3 of 35 comments (clear)

  1. Alpha? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't that architecture dead by now?

  2. This is news? by unixisc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How is a distro being in the alpha stage of its development news? It would be news when it was close to release, or actually released. Until then, people would be happily using Fedora 24. This is not like a new OS that's surfacing in the market

    1. Re:This is news? by paulbsch · · Score: 5, Informative

      I think the news is what's not mentioned in the headline or summary. In this release, Wayland is now preferred over X.org. I believe that will make F25 the first major distro release to make the switch?