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With the latest release, the distro continues to shift to Wayland, which is scheduled to be the default display server in Fedora 24. For now, the distro offers a preview, which you can boot into by choosing the Wayland session when logging into your user account.
Fedora 23 Workstation, which is aimed at hobbyists and home users, ships with Gnome 3.18 and brings with it an assortment of visual and practical updates. The Files application features a cleaner sidebar as many of the previously default locations have been relegated to the Other Locations tab. Mounted partitions and USB disks are relegated to this section instead of cluttering the sidebar. The application also now features a button in the header bar to showcase long-running tasks such as copy or move operations making progress dialog-boxes obsolete. For touch-enabled devices, long-press now provides access to context menus, a long-desired feature.
With the last release, the distro switched to DNF as the default package management tool, and its possible to use this to upgrade to Fedora 23. The easy process even provides users the option to revert to the previous release, if required.
At just shy of 1.5 GB, the 32- and 64-bit ISO images are chock full of applications and utilities to please just about everyone. For others, there’s the Software application, which provides access to enormous software repositories. The application which started as a clone of Ubuntu’s Software Centre has grown into a competent alternative tool. Its integration of the Linux Firmware Vendor Service makes it easy for manufacturers to push firmware updates to end users. This enables you to install updates to removable devices, such as monitors and printers, just as you would install any application.
Speaking of applications, Fedora 23 ships with LibreOffice 5 which features many new features and improvements such as built-in image cropping, stylepreviews in the sidebar, improved import and export to a variety of file formats etc. The default browser is Firefox 42 and in true cutting-edge style, Fedora 23 ships with Kernel 4.2, while several of its peers such as OpenSUSE continue with the 4.1.x series. Being a security conscious distro, the out of date SSL 3.0 protocol and RC4 cipher, which are prone to exploitation, are disabled by default in the encryption libraries.
Although not voluminous in terms of visible updates or new features, Fedora 23 has had plenty of work under the hood like migration of core systems, such as Anaconda installer to Python 3.
With yet another robust release from the Fedora camp, coupled with a nearperfect release from OpenSUSE, this is turning out to be a great and exciting time to be a Linux user. Features Performance Ease of use Documentation