Fedora 20 released

Finally, the latest version of Fedora, version 20, has arrived. After much delay, Heisenbug, as it is fondly known as, was released with expanded support for ARM-compatible processors. It also ensures continued heavy development for lowpower chips. The latest version of Fedora offers support for ARMv7hl (hardware floating-point and little endian) devices and also specifies that support for AArch64 is underway. Fedora 20 also takes on RHEL 7 with its ‘desperate pronouncements' about the importance of Linux.

According to a statement released by the company, "For 10 years, Fedora has not only led the way as a cutting-edge, open operating system, but the Fedora Project has also served as a paradigm for other open source communities on a global scale.”

The Fedora project comes with four board-specific OS images that are capable of running a stable Fedora. The images include the BeagleBone Black, Wandboard, CompuLab TrimSlice, and Calxeda EnergyCore server, apart from Versatile Express for Cortex-A9 and A15 emulation through QEMU virtualisation.

Fedora 20 has been dedicated to Seth Vidal, a tireless and brilliant contributor, who has been the lead developer of Yum and the Fedora update repository. Seth has touched the lives of hundreds of Fedora contributors directly, and millions indirectly by improving the experience of using and updating Fedora.