Fedora 27 released

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Post by gtirloni » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 2:04 PM UTC

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by s_kilk » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 2:30 PM UTC

Not the most exciting release, but boy am I glad Fedora exists. I switched over from Ubuntu around this time last year and it's been so much better, more stable, better packaging, more up-to-date packages by default. A really great OS. And on my Thinkpad it runs flawlessly.

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by _lbaq » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 2:34 PM UTC

Here are the instructions how to upgrade using dnf if you have Fedora 21 or newer: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade

Looking forward to the new display settings in Gnome 3.26 https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.26/

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by jacek » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 2:34 PM UTC

I highly recommend Fedora 27. I have been using beta for the last few weeks. I switched from Arch and I am very happy with how well everything works and how stable it is.

Fedora team has a release schedule for every release. However, they don't release until they are sure everything works as expected (27 was delayed by a few weeks). That really makes the stable release rock solid. I wish other popular distros would do the same.

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by hd4 » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 2:36 PM UTC

s_kilk wrote: post #2

Not the most exciting release, but boy am I glad Fedora exists. I switched over from Ubuntu around this time last year and it's been so much better, more stable, better packaging, more up-to-date packages by default. A really great OS. And on my Thinkpad it runs flawlessly.

I also left Ubuntu recently, so I'm a bit of a Fedora noob but the KDE spin has been amazing, not sure if that's got more to do with KDE or Fedora though.

The partition manager has an annoying bug hen opening in 26 so I'm hoping that got fixed. And I think the new Firefox will come packaged or at least part of a normal update, so good times.

HP Pavilion and it works completely fine.

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by jacek » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 2:36 PM UTC

_lbaq wrote: post #3

Here are the instructions how to upgrade using dnf if you have Fedora 21 or newer: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade Looking forward to the new display settings in Gnome 3.26 https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.26/

The big change will come with Gnome 3.28 - real fractional scaling. You can test early version of it on 3.26 [1] (experimental).

[1] http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/enable-fractional-scaling...

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by farresito » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 2:37 PM UTC

jacek wrote: post #4

I highly recommend Fedora 27. I have been using beta for the last few weeks. I switched from Arch and I am very happy with how well everything works and how stable it is. Fedora team has a release schedule for every release. However, they don't release until they are sure everything works as expected (27 was delayed by a few weeks). That really makes the stable release rock solid. I wish other popular distros would d…

What did you dislike about Arch? I made the opposite move years ago: I went from Fedora to Arch, and it was possibly the best choice I could have made.

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by jcastro » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 2:38 PM UTC

Does anyone know if the Atomic Host will auto update from 26->27 or is it a manual process?

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by rplnt » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 2:42 PM UTC

_lbaq wrote: post #3

Here are the instructions how to upgrade using dnf if you have Fedora 21 or newer: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade Looking forward to the new display settings in Gnome 3.26 https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.26/

Can you verify that the resolution picker is no longer ordered by total number of pixels? How anyone ever thought this was a good idea? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7p7ellIIAAbSHX.png:large

Re: Fedora 27 released

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Post by stinkytaco » Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 2:46 PM UTC

farresito wrote: post #7

jacek wrote: post #4

I highly recommend Fedora 27. I have been using beta for the last few weeks. I switched from Arch and I am very happy with how well everything works and how stable it is. Fedora team has a release schedule for every release. However, they don't release until they are sure everything works as expected (27 was delayed by a few weeks). That really makes the stable release rock solid. I wish other popular distros would d…

What did you dislike about Arch? I made the opposite move years ago: I went from Fedora to Arch, and it was possibly the best choice I could have made.

Not OP, but I value stability over having the latest version. Fedora is fairly bleeding edge compared to other fixed release distributions, but also tested.

Fedora is also easier to install. The older I get, the less hassle I want.