Fedora 27: Like we mentioned yesterday the Fedora Project team has announced the launch of the new large edition of the famous distribution. The new Fedora 27 version came with GNOME 3.26, which features a new set of settings and a more comprehensive search service.
Fedora is one of the most popular GNU / Linux distributions. It is the result of the Fedora Project, a large community of volunteers, funded and generally supported by the famous Red Hat. This of course means, reliability ... RedHat.
Fedora is free for anyone. So anyone can use, modify and distribute it. It is developed by people around the world who work together as a community. The Fedora Project is open and everyone is welcome to join.
Fedora releases a new version every 6 months and you can see the Fedora's life cycle in the relevant wiki page of the project.
After exactly one day I decided to install the new version, although I think that as a cutting edge distribution there may be instabilities and I should wait a bit until the first information.
The simplest way to install is from the Live DVD that includes the relevant application (Anaconda) of the Fedora installation.
Installation can also be done with netinstall CDs released by the distribution, but with Live DVD is much faster, since it does not download packages from the internet.
After installation, at first glance everything works. The distribution recognized the computer's hardware, installed what it needed, and then the first boat, there was full support for Wi-Fi as well as the graphics card.
As you can see in the picture above, the new Fedora 27 wears Cinnamon 3.6 and Kernel 4.13.
After I added the RPM Fusion repo from the terminal, I briefed the system. (below are the two commands)
rpm -vh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-27.noarch.rpm
dnf update
Please note that Yum Extender does not exist from 27, and was replaced by dnfdragora and dnfdragora-updater.
The new distribution uses a dark theme (Ark-Dark) in spin cinnamon I installed.
The cinnamon control panel seems to have been freshened as you will see below:
After installing, I added a swapfile (yes fedora supports the feature) for better RAM performance.
Below are the terminal commands. In case you are interested, use them in the order listed:
sudo fallocate -l 4G / swapfile sudo chmod 600 / swapfile sudo mkswap / swapfile sudo swapon / swapfile
After the above commands that will create a swapfile on your system, we will intervene in fstab to load it automatically after each reboot. We will open fstab with the application dwarf
sudo nano / etc / fstab
and we will add the following line at the end of fstab
/ swapfile swap sw sw sw 0 0
Download the Fedora you are interested in:
Workstation
Fedora-Workstation-27-1.6-x86_64-CHECKSUM 2017-11-10 18:47 1.2K
Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-27-1.6.iso 2017-11-05 07:45 1.5G
Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-27-1.6.iso 2017-11-05 04:59 508M
Fedora-Workstation-netinst-x86_64-27-1.6.iso.manifest 2017-11-05 06:48 700
Spins
Fedora-Cinnamon-Live-x86_64-27-1.6.iso 2017-11-05 07:41 1.5G
Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-27-1.6.iso 2017-11-05 07:39 1.5G
Fedora-LXDE-Live-x86_64-27-1.6.iso 2017-11-05 07:36 1.0G
Fedora-LXQt-Live-x86_64-27-1.6.iso 2017-11-05 07:38 1.0G
Fedora-MATE_Compiz-Live-x86_64-27-1.6.iso 2017-11-05 07:44 1.6G
Fedora-SoaS-Live-x86_64-27-1.6.iso 2017-11-05 07:34 759M
Fedora-Spins-27-1.6-x86_64-CHECKSUM 2017-11-10 18:47 2.0K
Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-27-1.6.iso 2017-11-05 07:37 1.2G
Everything
Fedora-Everything-27-1.6-x86_64-CHECKSUM 2017-11-10 18:47 1.0K
Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-27-1.6.iso 2017-11-05 04:54 508M
Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-27-1.6.iso.manifest 2017-11-05 06:46 680