oday, the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora community finally announced the general availability of Fedora 24 Linux distribution. Fedora is one of the most loved open source operating systems out there and the Fedora Project is busy making the experience of the end users ever better.
As expected, the latest Fedora 24 release continues to provide a cutting edge desktop experience by bringing improvements to desktop, cloud, and server. Fedora is a fully open source project whose new release paves a path for the next generation of Linux distributions.
Fedora–favorite Linux distribution of Linus Torvalds–is also the base of widely popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This release Fedora 24 brings some latest features for developers and sysadmins.
Just like the past releases, Fedora 24 constitutes a certain set of base packages that are used to make 3 distinct versions of the OS — Fedora Cloud, Fedora Server, and Fedora Workstation.
Changes and new features in Fedora 24:
Fedora 24 marks the inclusion of glibc 2.23 and GNU Compiler Collection 6. This will result in better stability and code optimization of each version.
Fedora 24 Workstation:
We all know that Fedora plays a vital role in GNOME development and its majority apps are GNOME apps. The Fedora 24 Workstation–the version for desktop users–features GNOME 3.20 that brings along changes like a polished search interface, easier music controls, shortcut windows features, better photo editing, and other little improvements.
GNOME 3.20 also brings a preview version of Wayland, the next-generation input and display technology in GNU/Linux. We should expect that Wayland will be shipped as default in Fedora 25.
The Software app too has got new features that allow you to upgrade to a new Fedora release easily.
Fedora 24 Server:
Fedora Server is the version that comes with applications and packages suitable for running servers.
The latest Fedora 24 Server version is a more streamlined release, with more focus on modularity. As a result, useless packages were removed, making the final installer lighter.
Talking about the major features of the Server release, FreeIPA 4.3 comes as an excellent security information manager.
Fedora 24 Cloud:
Fedora Cloud is a minimal Linux distribution that comes with core cloud technologies and acts as a great platform for running containerized applications.
Fedora 24 Cloud release features OpenShift Origin–a Kubernetes package that makes application development and deployment an easier process.
Fedora 24 Spins, Labs, and ARM:
Alongside these three major versions, Fedora also comes in multiple variants which are built on the same Fedora base. Fedora 24 Spins offers different desktop environments — KDE Plasma, Xfce, LXDE, Mate-Compiz, and Cinnamon.
Fedora 24 Labs comes with software packages for different purposes like Robotics, Games etc.
Fedora Project also releases ARM images for your ARM boards that are now available for download.
Fedora 24 Download Links:
You can download different Fedora 24 versions from the links given below:
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