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Fedora 36 Release Date and New Features
Fedora 36 is due for release soon, but what are some of the features that you can expect
with it?
And, when is it releasing?
Fedora 36 is one of the most anticipated releases of this year.
While we look forward to every major release, last year, Fedora 35 has set up some exciting
expectations with GNOME 41 and a new KDE flavor (Kinoite).
Fret not; if you cannot wait for Fedora 36, I shall highlight the essential details about
the release.
Fedora 36 Release Date Fedora 36 Beta was scheduled for March, and
it is already here.
Once the public beta testing is complete, the final release can be expected on April
19, 2022.
In case of a delay, the release date will be pushed to April 26, 2022.
You should also note that Fedora Linux 34 will reach its end of life on May 17, 2022.
You can try to get your hands on Fedora 36 now with a nightly build, or opt to try the
beta version from its official website.
As usual, Fedora 36 features the latest GNOME and other additions and improvements.
The key highlights include:
1.
GNOME 42 GNOME 42 is an exciting upgrade with various
visual and functional changes.
It also includes performance and visual tweaks, among other improvements.
If you missed GNOME 41 feature additions, you should also check that.
Of course, you should expect to find all the changes with Fedora 36.
Here, I shall highlight those details using Fedora 36 (if you didn’t catch up with GNOME
42).
2.
System-wide Dark Mode
Fedora 36 enjoys the system-wide dark mode introduced with GNOME 42.
While we had dark mode implementations on other Linux distributions, GNOME 42 helped
Fedora 36 become an attractive option for desktop users.
The dark mode blends in perfectly and gives a clean GNOME experience.
3.
New Wallpapers Without a new wallpaper, every other improvement
sounds dull.
So, the Fedora Design Team brings along a beautifully crafted wallpaper in Fedora 36,
illustrating glass-like elements, that looks interesting.
The default wallpaper has a variant for day/night.
As you notice the wallpaper for daytime above, here’s the artwork for the night:
Both look fantastic and soothing to the eyes.
4.
Linux Kernel 5.17 Fedora 36 is known to offer the latest Linux
Kernel releases.
As of now, it is currently running the release candidate versions of the upcoming Linux Kernel
5.17.
With the final Fedora 36 release, you should expect the stable version of Linux Kernel
5.17.
5.
Dark/Light Wallpapers Along with the new default wallpapers for
Fedora 36, it also features a dark/light mode wallpaper collection introduced with GNOME
42.
As of now, testing the Fedora 36 Workstation (pre-release version), I can only find one
of the wallpapers and not the whole collection that you get with GNOME 42.
So, you can probably expect more additions with Fedora 36 beta release.
You can choose to select the wallpapers with their available dark/light variants from the
appearance.
6.
Screenshot User Interface and Native Screen Recording
The new screenshot user interface introduced with GNOME 42 is a fantastic addition.
Also, with just a toggle, you can start recording your screen!
And, you could see that in action with Fedora 36, working perfectly fine.
7.
Desktop Environment Updates For obvious reasons, you should expect the
latest desktop environments with Fedora 36.
The bare minimum should be GNOME 42, KDE Plasma 5.24, and Xfce 4.16.
In addition to that, LXQt has been updated to 1.0.0.
8.
Important Technical Changes Along with the visual changes and the Linux
Kernel upgrade, there are various technical improvements with Fedora 36.
Some of them worth mentioning include:
Updated the system openJDK package from Java 11 to Java 17.
Introducing the upcoming Golang 1.18 version.
Switching to Noto fonts as the default for various languages to ensure consistency in
text rendering.
The behaviour to exclude the recommended packages (considering you do not have them installed)
when automatically upgrading in future.
GNU Toolchain update to gcc 12 and glibc 2.35.
Fix upgradability issues in some cases.
Default Wayland session with NVIDIA proprietary driver.
Updated PHP stack to latest 8.1.x.
The RPM database will be relocated to /usr directory, currently it was in /var.
For more technical details, you can refer to the official changeset.
If you want to download the pre-release version,
Wrapping Up Fedora 36 is going to be an exciting release.
I’m looking forward to trying the Wayland session with NVIDIA’s proprietary driver
on Fedora 36 Workstation when it releases.
:: More ::
Fedora 36 Beta is here
Yesterday the beta version of Fedora 36 was released, which should be generally available
on April 19th, with an alternative date on April 26th.
Fedora 36 is the first distribution to ship GNOME 42 , released a week ago, as the default
desktop for the workstation edition.
Linux 5.17 is used as the kernel.
Wayland defies NVIDIA Fedora 36 is a rather muted release, offering
few major changes aside from the usual package, toolchain, and programming language updates.
One of them will please owners of NVIDIA cards, because with Fedora 36 these systems now also
boot into a Wayland session by default.
If you prefer LXQt as a desktop, you can either install version 1.0 or download the corresponding
spin with LXQt.
Fedora Silverblue and Kinoite have an additional separate subvolume on new installations /var,
making it easier to handle snapshots of dynamic data independently from the system snapshots.
RPM package base moved The system-wide changes include moving the
RPM package basis from /varto /usrto catch up with other RPM-based distributions such
as openSUSE or the company 's own Silverblue and Kinoite offerings , which are based on
rpm-ostree . Another change is that users created during installation are administrators
by default.
The previously required check mark no longer has to be set in the installer.
In the future, Noto Fonts will serve as the standard font instead of DejaVu.
Large selection Images for Fedora Workstation, Server, ioT,
CoreOS, Silverblue, Kinoite, as well as Spins and Labs are available for download on the
project page . As for the spins, there are KDE Plasma, Xfce, LXQt, Mate with Compiz,
Cinnamon.
LXDE, SOAS Desktop and the i3 Tiling WM.
Fedora Labs offers images for Astronomy, Comp Neuro, Design Suite, Games, Jam, Python Classrom,
SEcurity Lab, Robotics Suite, and Scientific.
:: More ::
Fedora 36 Beta arrives with GNOME 42, KDE Plasma 5.24 and more Wayland
Fedora 36 Beta is now available to enter the final stage of the development of the next
version of the community distribution sponsored by Red Hat, which in turn is the project on
which future technologies that will be incorporated into RHEL are tested (although That's not
to say that Fedora isn't good for home use and production.)
Fedora 36 has become a long-awaited version, especially due to the incorporation of GNOME
42 , with which it is expected to make an important qualitative leap in the Linux desktop
at a general level.
Apart from that, Fedora is one of the main faces of GNOME due to the close relationship
between both projects and Red Hat, forming one of the best-known triangles in the Linux
universe.
Due to the fact that it is one of the reference distributions of GNOME and one of those that
most respects its base implementation, we find ourselves with a scenario in which many
of the most outstanding novelties of Fedora 36 have been gutted.
Through GNOME 42 it will receive support for the dark theme and, unlike Ubuntu 22.04 LTS,
it will include the controversial libadwaita.
On the other hand, and this time following or at least going in parallel with Canonical
, the Wayland session will be used by default with the NVIDIA proprietary driver . It's
about time the green giant swallowed the standards, albeit by force.
But the Fedora Project is much more than a vanilla implementation of GNOME, providing
a large number of editions and variants for many purposes, including containers, robotics,
security, and IoT.
However, we start with spins, which re-implement Workstation technologies with other desktop
environments such as KDE Plasma, MATE, XFCE and LXQt.
On KDE Plasma, at least for now there is version 5.24 , which has extended support (LTS), has
added a GNOME-like overview, an improved KRunner, the addition of a fingerprint reader, improvements
in notifications and enhancements in the Wayland session.
It is worth remembering that Fedora is one of the main supporters of Wayland in KDE Plasma
.
We can't forget about the immutable desktop editions, represented by Silverblue and Kinoite
. The first will include GNOME 42 and the second KDE Plasma 5.24, but in both the main
novelty will be the separation of '/var' into a separate subvolume on new installations
so that “handling dynamic data snapshots is easier to manage regardless of system snapshots.”
As we can see, Fedora 36 promises to be a powerful release, especially since it follows
the long-awaited and desired GNOME 42, the version of the environment that promises to
be a turning point for the Linux desktop as it represents an important step forward in
the implementation of Wayland and because it will also be used by Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
All editions of the distribution can be easily obtained through the project's torrent page
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