Fedora 27 installation and a first presentation

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.

The 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 or 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.

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After a day I just decided to install the new version, although I think cutting edge distribution may be unstable and I should wait a little for the first update.

The simplest way installations is from the live dvd which includes the relevant application (Anaconda) of the Fedora installation.

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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 hardware of the computer, installed it, and after the first boot, there was full support for both Wi-Fi and the graphics card.

As you can see in the picture above, the new Fedora 27 wears Cinnamon 3.6 and Kernel 4.13.

After adding the RPM Fusion repo from the terminal, I updated it system. (below are the two commands)

rpm -vh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-27.noarch.rpm

dnf update

I should mention that Yum Extender has been gone since version 27, replaced by dnfdragora and dnfdragora-updater.

The new distribution uses a dark theme (Ark-Dark) in spin cinnamon I installed.

The painting control of cinnamon seems to have been refreshed 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 interfere with fstab to load it automatically after every reboot. We will open the fstab with the nano application