Fedora is one of the Linux distributions that you hear the most about, although in practice it is not one of the most used. This distro is endorsed and promoted by the Red Hat (IBM) company, and is, broadly speaking, a free, home-user version of your RHEL . This system is characterized by being very stable, robust and secure and strives to be the leader in terms of free and open source software.
The current version of this Linux distribution is 33. However, the developers in charge of maintaining it have been working on the new version of this distro for quite some time: Fedora 34. This new version already has a release date, and is going to reach all users completely free of charge (as always) with a large number of changes and news as we will see below.
Fedora 34 – All the news
The first news will be found in the main desktops offered by this distro. By default, Fedora comes with the GNOME desktop, and then we can find the distro with other different desktops in what are known as versions, or spins of Fedora.
The new versions that we will find in this regard are:
- GNOME 40. An update that radically changes the way you work with Linux. It offers a new horizontal application panel, new advanced search functions, productivity improvements, new Wi-Fi functions, and the new GNOME Calendar.
- KDE Plasma 5.21. Still in beta, this new version of KDE will use the Wayland graphical server by default. A version specially designed for those who install Fedora on ARM64 devices.
- XFCE 4.16. The latest version of the lightweight desktop is now much more stable. It removes all dependencies from GTK2 and brings new icons and improvements to the distro scaling system.
- LXQt 0.16. A new desktop that we can now use in a much more stable way than before.
- i3 . This desk arrives in the form of a new Spin. A clear commitment to minimalism with the arrival of this mosaic window manager that will undoubtedly win the trust of advanced users who are committed to minimalism.
Many of the packages and base components of this Linux have also been updated. For example:
- Users using BTRFS as the file system will have Zstd compression enabled by default.
- Pipewire is now the default sound server for this distro. This sound server manages system resources much better, reducing RAM usage and avoiding Out-Of-Memory situations.
And most of Fedora’s tools and packages have also been updated to their latest versions, such as Binutils, Gcc, binutils, glibc, Golang, IBus, LLVM, OpenSSL, Ruby, BIND, MariaDB, and Ruby on Rails.
Availability
Before seeing the stable version of this distro we will have to go through two beta versions. The first of them will reach all users on March 16, 2021, while the second will do so a week later, on March 23, 2021.
If all goes well, the final version of Fedora 34 will arrive on April 20, 2021 . From then on, all users of this Linux will be able to jump to the new version, and those who have not yet tried it will be able to download the image for free to update to it.
Fedora is a totally free Linux distro that we can download from this link .