Fedora, the operating system supported by Red Hat, is known for its innovative features. In fact, it often pioneers technologies that are often adopted by other distributions. It is also Red Hat's testing ground, as it acts as the upstream source for RHEL.
Fedora 28 is the latest release you can download and use. The main features of the operating system in brief are as follows:
GNOME 3.28
GNOME 3.28 is the default desktop environment that ships with this release. As a result, you get a large variety of improvements and fixes. The most notable updates in GNOME 3.28 are for Files, Contacts, Clocks, Calendar, and on-screen keyboard apps.
It is obvious that 3.28 upgrades most default applications. It also adds a new Usage application to facilitate performance monitoring.
3rd-party software repositories
Fedora 28 comes with popular third-party software repos, such as Chrome, PyCharm, Steam, etc. You will need to enable them when you first install GNOME Software 3.28.
Thunderbolt 3 support
Regarding the hardware, Thunderbolt 3 support has been added. This Fedora 28 feature will allow the GNOME shell to automatically register Thunderbolt devices as soon as they are connected.
VB Guest additions by default
This small change will make life easier for those who want to try new things on virtual reality machines. From Fedora 28 onward, any Fedora installation will have Virtual Guest additions. This will bring features such as automatic desktop size adjustment, seamless operation, copy/paste b/w host and guest, etc.
Improved Emoji support
With the new Noto Color Emoji font, Fedora 28 also provides support for Unicode 10.0 emoji. It will improve the overall messaging experience and make your conversations more colorful.
GNOME photos
GNOME Photos replaces Shotwell as the default image management tool. In addition to organizing images, the Photos app also provides basic photo editing capabilities.
Download Fedora 28
The most common version of Fedora is Workstation and contains the above features. You can download the new ISOs and installer by going to this page.
