Fedora 25 Beta Released With GNOME 3.22 and Linux Kernel 4.8.1

Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:20AM from the linux-delights dept.

Reader prisoninmate writes: Fedora Project released of the Beta milestone of the upcoming Fedora 25 Linux operating system, due for release in mid-November. Powered by Linux kernel 4.8.1, the Fedora 25 Beta is shipping with the recently released GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, which is enabled by default on top of a Wayland 1.12 session for the Workstation Edition). Of course, you'll also find the latest software versions, including the LibreOffice 5.2.2 office suite, Flatpak 0.6.12, Mozilla Firefox 49.0 web browser, and LibVirt 2.2.0. Additionally, users will find the Mesa 12.0.3 3D Graphics Library for better and faster graphics support, OpenSSH 7.3p1 and OpenSSL 1.0.2j for improved security, Python 3.5.2, Samba 4.5.0, systemd 231, TigerVNC 1.7.0, and the latest Git snapshot of the upcoming X.Org Server 1.19.0 display server. Fedora 25 Beta Workstation is available for download now.

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I tried to download this but Hillary... by Anonymous Coward · 2016-10-11 02:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

She burst in to my house and destroyed my computer, said it had emails on it.
Why isn't she in jail? Why won't anyone stop her??
1. Re:I tried to download this but Hillary... by Anonymous Coward · 2016-10-11 02:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Joke's on you. That was Lennart Poettering in drag.
I'm so out of touch by maynard · 2016-10-11 02:48 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Question: Can recent distributions with modern desktops handle resolution independence? Will fonts, icons, and application widgets automatically scale? If I buy a 4k monitor will it seamlessly work or will I be reading with a magnifying glass held up against the screen? I'm particularly interested in use cases with blender/makehuman, gimp/krita, synfig/opentunez, and audacity/ardour. I've been in the Mac ghetto a little too long for my own good.