Fedora 27: As we reported yesterday, the Fedora Project team announced the release of the new major version of the famous distribution. The new version Fedora 27, came with GNOME 3.26 which features a new settings panel 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, and is funded and generally supported by the famous Red Hat. This of course means, reliability… RedHat.
Fedora is free for everyone. So anyone can use it, modify it, and distribute it. It is developed by people around the world working together as a community. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join.
Fedora releases a new version every 6 months and you can see the Fedora lifecycle in detail on the project's relevant wiki page.
After exactly one day, I decided to install the new version, although I believe that as a cutting edge distribution, instabilities may occur and I should wait a bit until the first update.
The simplest way to install is from the Live DVD which includes the relevant Fedora installation application ( Anaconda )
The installation can also be done with the netinstall CD versions that the distribution publishes, but with the Live DVD it 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 after the first boot, there was full support for Wi-Fi and the graphics card.
As you can see in the image above, the new Fedora 27 runs Cinnamon 3.6 and Kernel 4.13.
After adding the RPM Fusion repo from the terminal, I updated the system. (below are the two commands)
rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-27.noarch.rpm
dnf update
I should mention that Yum Extender is no longer available since version 27, and was replaced by dnfdragora and dnfdragora-updater.
The new distribution uses a dark theme (Ark-Dark) in the cinnamon spin I installed.
The Cinnamon control panel appears to have been refreshed as you will see below:
After installation, I added a swapfile (yes fedora supports the feature) for better RAM performance.
Below are the terminal commands. In case you are interested in them, 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 automatically load it after each reboot. We will open fstab with the nano application
sudo nano /etc/fstab
and we will add the following line, at the end of fstab
/swapfile swap swap sw 0 0
Download the Fedora you are interested in:
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