The developers announced the start of beta testing for the distribution. Fedora 32The official release is scheduled for mid-April this year. The following versions of distributions will be released as part of the rollout:
- Fedora Workstation
- Fedora Server
- Fedora Silverblue
- Live builds with desktop environments KDE Plasma 5, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, and LXQt
Alpine — a distribution Linux, sponsored by the company Red Hat and containing features that are planned for future use in the distribution. Red Hat Enterprise LinuxThe goal of the project is to build a complete operating system from free software by the community in the spirit of the Red Hat Linux ecosystem. Releases come every 6 to 8 months on a public schedule.
Changes include:
- To respond earlier to memory shortages in workstation builds, it is now enabled by default. earlyoom
- To smooth out SSD wear, it is enabled by default. systemd timer fstrim.timer, which runs fstrim.service to execute the command /usr/sbin/fstrim --fstab --verbose --quiet, passing information about unused blocks to storage devices.
- GNOME updated to version 3.36.
- Python 2 removed due to the expiration of its 'lifetime.' For those who still need it, a python27 package will be prepared that includes all necessary modules in an 'all-inclusive' mode.
- The builds were made using GCC 10.
- Many package versions have been updated:
- Glibc 2.31
- Binutils 2.33
- LLVM 10-rc
- Python 3.8
- Ruby 2.7
- Go 1.14
- MariaDB 10.4
- Mono 6.6
- PostgreSQL 12
- PHP 7.4
- Python is compiled using the -fno-semantic-interposition flag, which results in performance gains ranging from 5 to 27% according to the tests.
>>> Full change log description
>>> Source code and earlyoom description
>>> Official website and downloads
Source: linux.org.ru
