First year following new Fedora Project model drives new editions and
innovations within the Fedora distribution
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc., sponsored and community-driven open
source collaboration, today announced the general availability of Fedora
23, marking a noteworthy first year of Fedora releases driven by the
Fedora.next initiative. Under Fedora.next, which serves as the umbrella
planning phase for the Fedora Project's next decade, the Fedora
operating system split into three distinct editions with each release:
Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server and Fedora Cloud, each serving a
different role for end users.
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Embracing the Fedora.next model has helped enable the Fedora Project
team to better address the specific needs of its varied user base, from
home desktop workers and developers to cloud administrators and
corporate datacenter users. Not just limited to new features, the
Fedora.next model has also delivered several operational improvements to
the Fedora Project, allowing for:
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Different release cycles under the Fedora operating system umbrella
without requiring the creation of a downstream fork, highlighted by
the two-week release cadence of Fedora Atomic Host
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The three editions allow for a clearer delineation of features,
helping release engineering teams to be able to push updates from the
build system to users in half the time.
Fedora 23
The latest edition of the Fedora operating system, Fedora 23, brings
updated and enhanced versions of Fedora's three editions, all of which
are built on a foundation of base packages, which includes updated
versions of the Linux kernel, RPM, systemd, DNF and Anaconda. New to
Fedora 23 is a "hardening" of these packages through the use of compiler
flags, helping to prevent corruption, buffer overflows and other
vulnerability issues.
Enhancements to the Fedora 23 editions include:
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Fedora 23 Server gains a new role via the rolekit service in
the form of a cache server for web applications, powered by memcached,
bringing the total number of roles to three alongside the database
server and domain controller roles. Additional tweaks and upgrades
include the ability to use rolekit from the anaconda kickstart, a
cluster dashboard for Kubernetes and support for SSH key
authentication.
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Fedora 23 Workstation brings a preview of GNOME 3.18 as well as
changes to the Software application (allowing it to update firmware)
and Wayland, with the latter enhancements aimed at helping to make
Wayland the default graphic server for future releases.
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Fedora 23 Cloud does not have any obvious improvements, but
enhancements continue to deliver a more secure and flexible image for
cloud-based deployments. Additionally, Fedora 23 Cloud is expected to
power the forthcoming Fedora Atomic Host which is anticipated to have
a two-week release cadence moving forward.
Supporting Quotes
Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader
"Two years ago, the
Fedora Project started the Fedora.next initiative, which helped us look
at what the Fedora Project needed to accomplish in the next 10 years to
adapt to a changing technology landscape, one where open source
development and cloud computing are becoming more prevalent across the
IT landscape. The Fedora operating system needed to be both more
flexible and more targeted, and last year, we released the first Fedora
distribution with three separate editions for users in the cloud, for
those in the server room, and for users looking for a desktop platform.
The release of Fedora 23 highlights the important successes of this
initiative, including the delivery of these three distinct editions as
well as infrastructure improvements to help our community continue
Fedora's role as a leader within the open source operating system world."
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