Fedora 23 Now Available, Highlights Fedora.next Successes
November 03 2015 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
First year following new Fedora Project model
drives new editions and innovations within the Fedora
distribution
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:
- 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
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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