The
Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open
source collaboration, announced the general availability of Fedora
20, code-named “Heisenbug,” the latest version of the free, Linux-based
Fedora operating system. Developed by a diverse global community,
Fedora 20 celebrates 10 years of the Fedora Project’s innovation. This
release brings several key features to enhance usability, performance,
and provide developers with additional functionality.
Since
the first official release of Fedora, then called Fedora Core 1, on
Nov. 6, 2003, much more has changed than just the name. Over the past 10 years,
Fedora has emerged as an active and vibrant open source community
leading the way in operating system innovation on every front, with
Fedora 20 showcasing just how far Fedora has come.
Fedora 20 is also dedicated to Seth Vidal,
a dedicated, tireless, and brilliant contributor and the lead developer
of Yum and the Fedora update repository. Seth touched the lives of
hundreds of Fedora contributors directly, and millions indirectly by
improving the experience of using and updating Fedora.
Support for ARM
As
part of Fedora’s commitment to leading edge open innovation, ARM is now
supported as a primary architecture. While x86/x86_64 serves as the
default architecture for the majority of Fedora users, ARM is rapidly
growing in stature and already dominates the mobile world. Beyond mobile
and the maker movement, ARM shows great promise as a powerful and
cost-effective technology for the server world, leading to primary
support from Fedora to satisfy end users and developers targeting the
ARM platform.
Maturity and Advanced Features
With
a decade of releases behind it, Fedora 20 adds additional refinements
to the needs of more advanced users. These enhancements include:
· NetworkManager Improvements
- Users will now be able to add, edit, delete, activate, and deactivate
network connections via the nmcli command line tool, simplifying
non-desktop uses of Fedora. NetworkManager is also getting support for
bonding interfaces and bridging interfaces. Bonding and bridging are
used in many enterprise setups and are necessary for virtualization and
fail-over scenarios.
· No Default Sendmail, Syslog
- Fedora 20 removes and replaces some services that some users find
unnecessary from the Live Desktop DVD, such as the former syslog
solution, which is now replaced by systemd journal. The systemd journal
now acts as the default logging solution for minimal and other selected
installation methods such as the Live Desktop DVD, having been tested
and able to manage persistent logging in place of syslog. Additionally,
Sendmail will no longer be installed by default, as typical Fedora
installs have no need of a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).
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