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Fedora 27 Released (fedoramagazine.org)
The Fedora Project has announced the general availability of Fedora 27 Workstation and Fedora 27 Atomic editions. Fedora 27 brings with it "thousands of improvements" from both the Fedora Community and various upstream software projects, the team said on Tuesday. From a post on Fedora Magazine: The Workstation edition of Fedora 27 features GNOME 3.26. In the new release, both the Display and Network configuration panels have been updated, along with the overall Settings panel appearance improvement. The system search now shows more results at once, including the system actions. GNOME 3.26 also features color emoji support, folder sharing in Boxes, and numerous improvements in the Builder IDE tool. The new release also features LibreOffice 5.4.
Thank-you I will. I'm happy to proceed using this distro without the burden of your ideology.
fine if you're running a laptop or home pc
for those of us who administor hundreds of machines, we've found systemd to be unpredictable, unreliable, and needlessly complex garbage
for those of us who administor hundreds of machines, we've found systemd to be unpredictable, unreliable, and needlessly complex garbage
Ahh I knew I missed the yearly bulletin of Illiterate System Administrators.
It depends on what you want to do. Steam games generally get full support for Ubuntu first, less so on Fedora. I can play TF2 natively, but both Portal games crash on me. But if you ask my boss, he would say that debian packaging is superior to RPM especially when dealing with dependency issues.
You speak only for yourself. Many of use who operate large server farms are quite happy with systemd. And the evidence suggests that those who integrate systems prefer systemd, as there are vanishingly few distributions that don't use systemd either exclusively or by default.
Fast booting isn't the big reason to use systemd
It's not, as systemd boots slower than sane inits. This doesn't stop this reason from being included in systemd advertising (although they've mostly moved to touting other fake advantages).
Keep holding your breath for the day when people will be ditching Linux because it has a vastly improved init system.
Well, which one do you have in mind? Because I can't think of one that's drastically better than others, although there is one that's drastically worse.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
It's a technology story. Far more relevant than the story about Germany burning too much coal.
I always recommend holding off for a few weeks on Fedora distro upgrades anyway. Servers are less busy and if there's a few package issues they'll have them ironed out by then.
The Fedora equivalent to Ubuntu LTS would be the official Red Hat releases or CentOS.
I haven't had problems with systemd for years now. There were problems long ago, but it's solid now for me on server and desktop alike.
Can you provide some information about the problems you are having or link to issue reports?
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It is documented in their release schedule:
"We say maintained for approximately 13 months because the supported period for releases is dependent on the date the release under development goes final. As a result, Release X is supported until one month after the release of Release X+2.
This translates into:
Fedora 26 will be maintained until 1 month after the release of Fedora 28.
Fedora 27 will be maintained until 1 month after the release of Fedora 29."
If you want more stability, there's CentOS, which has a new release every 3-4 years, but will provide updates for 10 years. The core release doesn't have the latest software, but that is what Software Collections are for.