[1]Fedora 44 is officially released for providing the very latest Linux innovations with GNOME 50 being the default desktop of Fedora Workstation 44, an improved KDE experience with Plasma 6.6 complete with the Plasma Log-in Manager, and other up-to-date software packages.

Fedora 44 ships live media improvements, enhanced AArch64 EFI system support for Windows on ARM laptops, the latest GCC 16 compiler, and many other updates like LLVM 22. Fedora 44 also has Budgie 10.10, PHP 8.5, Ruby 4.0, Boost 1.90, Golang 1.26, CMake 4.0, and more for delivering a leading-edge upstream Linux experience.

Fedora 44 has been running splendid on the number of systems I have tested the near-final ISOs on in recent weeks. This Fedora 44 release comes one week after the big Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release and days after the newest CachyOS refresh to make for some exciting Linux spring 2026 testing. I will have more Fedora Linux 44 benchmarks on Phoronix in the days ahead.

Fedora 44 in its various ISO flavors can be downloaded from [2]Fedora mirrors .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Fedora+44

[2] https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/44