Fedora 32 is here, the latest version of the Red Hat-sponsored distribution that marks the evolution of the technological evolution of GNU/Linux and that also plays the role of reference system for the GNOME desktop environment.
Covering the novelties of Fedora 32, we will start with what is possibly the most interesting flavor for end-users: the Workstation. Fedora 32 Workstation stands out for including the impressive GNOME 3.36, which has been a remarkable evolution, especially at the performance level, compared to previous versions of the desktop environment. Another important point to note is that now the trim is (or at least would have) activated by default from systemd, so now the SSDs will be well taken care of with the out of the box configuration of the system. This represents yet another small step in consolidating Fedora Workstation as one of the most automated GNU/Linux systems in existence.
Despite Fedora's strong association with GNOME, this does not mean that other desktop environments cannot be used. For this, the distribution community makes multiple spins available with implementations of KDE Plasma, XFCE, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, and LXQt, so there is no excuse to avoid trying this cutting-edge system.
Fedora 32 Server follows the line of its predecessors, offering the user or administrator "the latest in cutting edge open-source server software for system administrators in an easy to implement way". However, it is important to take into account the strongly experimental nature of this distribution, so its implementation in a real production environment must be taken with great caution. For its part, "for high-tech computing use cases, Fedora IoT provides a solid foundation for IoT (Internet of Things) ecosystems."
We keep moving away from the common user with Fedora CoreOS, a variant oriented to the execution of containers. Fedora Magazine says that “Fedora CoreOS is an emerging edition of Fedora. It is a minimal operating system that automatically updates to run containerized workloads securely and at scale. It offers several update streams that can be followed for automatic updates that occur approximately every two weeks. Currently, the following stream is based on Fedora 32, with testing and stable streams to follow. ”
Fedora is a project that tries to cover many fronts, so there are many variants of the system for different purposes. In addition to desktop, server, IoT and containers, Fedora Astronomy Lab "offers a complete open-source toolchain for amateur and professional astronomers and desktop environments like KDE Plasma and Xfce" , while Comp Neuro Lab, which debuts with Fedora 32, has been developed by the Distribution Neuroscience Special Interest Group.
At the component level, we find Linux 5.6.6 as the initial kernel, GCC 10, Ruby 2.7 and Python 3.8. Despite having reached its end of the cycle, the python27 package is offered for those developers who are still with Python 2, although it is highly recommended to switch to Python 3 as soon as possible because the second version of the interpreted language was discontinued this 2020.
Fedora 32 is arguably the most ambitious desktop-level release, as apart from including GNOME 3.36, Red Hat recently announced the marketing of Lenovo laptops with community distribution as a pre-installed system, so this could be the first serious attempt by from the Fedora community to dispute, at least a little, the clear leadership of Canonical and Debian-based technologies within the GNU/Linux desktop.
Fedora 32 can be obtained by direct download (spins) from the official website of the distribution (Workstation and Server) or through the corresponding torrents. For slow connections, the second way would be more recommended.
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