Community Releases Fedora 22 Final

The Fedora community released version 22 of its eponymous operating system on Tuesday, fully as planned. In addition to the regular version, five other flavors are also available, such as one with the KDE and one with Xfce desktop environment.

The community worked for weeks on the release. A beta version was recently released, but it wasn’t until Tuesday that the developers deemed the latest release of the Linux distribution ripe for the public. The version does not differ radically from its predecessors and above all offers further improvements.

For example, in all editions of Fedora, the classic Yum package management software has been replaced by Dandified Yum, or Dnf-yum. The successor to the management software should perform better. In addition, the Dnf-yum uses Libsolv, a dependency resolver from the OpenSuse stable.

The Gnome release of Fedora 22 also features the updated Gnome 3.16 notification system. In addition to numerous minor changes, this offers major changes to the default appearance. For example, the notification menu is now in the middle of the top bar. The notification system also shows the history of notifications and the calendar can now display world times.

Furthermore, the Server edition now uses the xfs file system by default. That runs on top of lvm volumes, except on the boot sector as this is technically impossible. The file system is more scalable within cloud environments and defragmentation can also take place during use.

Fedora is one of Red Hat’s three Linux distributions. In addition to Gnome, the OS is also available for free in five other flavors, namely KDE, Xfce, LXDE, MATE-Compiz and Sugar on a Stick. Red Hat primarily monetizes the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux distro. That distribution was already equipped with the xfs file system last year.