The Fedora team has been moving very fast

Apr 21, 2015 14:47 GMT  ·  By

Red Hat announced just a few moments ago that Fedora 22 Beta is now available for download and testing, making this one of the fastest release cycles in the past few years.

The previous Fedora 21 release was made in December, 2014, and now we're already testing Fedora 22 Beta. Just a couple of delays were registered by the project, which is a really good thing. The project was known for its numerous delays and for the weeks that were just added to the final release date. The team seems to have a much better grip on the situation and the devs are much more constant.

The Fedora project was split into three different flavors that need to cater to the needs of different users, and those flavors are Cloud, Server, and Workstation. The third one would be for desktop users if you were wondering. As you can expect, this is still under development, but it has progressed very well in the last few weeks.

Fedora 22 Beta is all about evolution

The changes from one version to another are not all the big, but the developers have been making some important improvements, like the adoption of Linux kernel 4.0, which was just made available just a week ago.

"While each edition addresses a specific set of use cases, all are built from a base set of packages that includes the Linux kernel, RPM, systemd, and Anaconda. All editions of Fedora 22 Beta include an updated package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions called 'DNF.' Desktop and workstation users who use the Software tool to manage their applications will see no difference, except better performance behind the scenes in managing updates. Fedora users who manage applications using the command line will note that DNF is faster while still keeping CLI compatibility with Yum for most tasks," reads the statement from Red Hat.

The developers have explained that the GNOME now comes with a much better notification system, the login screen now uses Wayland, and the libinput library is now used for both X11 and Wayland.

You can download Fedora 22 Beta right now from Softpedia and give it a spin.

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