Fedora Continued At The Forefront Of Upstream Linux Innovations In 2025 (phoronix.com)
- Reference: 0180482225
- News link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/12/29/2330252/fedora-continued-at-the-forefront-of-upstream-linux-innovations-in-2025
- Source link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Linux-2025-Highlights
"Fedora Linux this year continued in punctually shipping the very latest upstream Linux innovations from the freshest Wayland components to Linux kernel features and continuing to leverage other improvements in the open-source world," writes Larabel. "Fedora enjoyed the successful Fedora 42 and Fedora 43 releases this year, including going with Wayland-noly GNOME and further phasing of 32-bit packages. Fedora's KDE spin continued improving too and the Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution enjoyed a wealth of other improvements this year."
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Linux-2025-Highlights
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/16/2021253/fedora-linux-43-beta-released
[3] https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/06/25/2042242/bazzite-would-shut-down-if-fedora-goes-ahead-with-removing-32-bit
[4] https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/05/06/1652215/microsoft-makes-fedora-an-official-windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl-distribution
Works for me (Score:2)
I like how the testing in Fedora eventually works its way into my Rocky installs :-)
The OS from IBM (Score:2)
No thanks.
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Also focus-follows-mouse. Why should I waste my life away clicking redundantly on tiny little windows just so they know I'm going to fill in one of their text boxes?
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Seriously? Gnome does not give you a choice of focus-follows-mouse? What backward defective wannabe-level crap is that piece of software? Now I will look even less at it than I had planned (which was "never").
Any sane Window-Manager just gives you a choice. My fvwm has now been configured for focus-follows-mouse for something like 35 years and I had one (!) easy configuration change in all that time when fvwm2 came out. And that is it. This thing needs to work as I want it to and do so long term. Nothing el
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What pisses me off is that the entire justification for wasting 15 years to develop a "replacement" for X11 ended up being obsoleted by technologies that could easily have been foreseen in 2010. cgroups in Linux means every application can be given its own authentication token for the X server, allowing X clients to be given application-by-application security. No need to send everything to everything any more. And full backward compatibility is possible. All that's needed is for the Xorg team to implement
"Innovation" (Score:2)
RedHat's "contributions" over the last 20 years: Making XFS the default rather than ext4, removing Btrfs, introducing Systemd, PulseAudio, PipeWire, DBus, Wayland, Podman, corporate telemetry reporting, dropping 32-bit and fbcon. Aka, all the annoying shit we don't like that makes Linux into an incompatible, monolithic, "opinionated", corporatized operating system. And let's not forget how they closed their source code.
Well before IBM acquired them, RedHat has been slowly corrupting and subverting the enti
Innovation != better (Score:2)
The word has been so abused that I become suspicious every time I hear it.
Especially now that Fedora is IBM.
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Indeed. And when the "innovation" is "Weyland on Gnome". Seriously, I do not use either and I do not plan to. I just want my systems to work.
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That's an innovation in almost exactly the way that crapping on the office floor is.