Fedora 28 Is Aiming To Be Released By Mid-May

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 28 Is Aiming To Be Released By Mid-May

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has been working to firm up the release schedule for the Fedora 28 Linux operating system update due out in Q2'2018...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-28-Release-Schedule

[SWY1985]

I've always been a Debian/Ubuntu user, but I'm going to try running Fedora 26 for a while because I can't say I'm really impressed with the changes Ubuntu is making to my the default Gnome installation and the way they try to force Snap packages down my throat.

[GdeR]

I so love Fedora. I'd feel very disoriented without this distribution.. I would endlessly be distrohopping from the slow world of Debian to the unpredictable and buggy world of Ubuntu's and the annoyingly ever-changing world of rolling systems. Fedora lies in that very nice spot in the middle of all this mess. I really hope that if we will ever have a standard for Linux distributions, it will be mostly modeled after Fedora. Cheers.

[JeansenVaars]

I so love Fedora. I'd feel very disoriented without this distribution.. I would endlessly be distrohopping from the slow world of Debian to the unpredictable and buggy world of Ubuntu's and the annoyingly ever-changing world of rolling systems. Fedora lies in that very nice spot in the middle of all this mess. I really hope that if we will ever have a standard for Linux distributions, it will be mostly modeled after Fedora. Cheers.

Well, talking about a standard Linux distribution, fedora is very far away from being friendly with proprietary software, so I'd be careful there. I think a good balance is what makes a good distro, and Fedora feels very biased towards free software only. I agree though that debian/ubuntu is not doing a great work lately, and also agree that Fedora is an awesome super stable distro, nonetheless, I think distros like manjaro/mint are becoming the next standard balanced distros.

[eydee]

Fedora 28 in December 2018 confirmed.

[wizard69]

I've always been a Debian/Ubuntu user, but I'm going to try running Fedora 26 for a while because I can't say I'm really impressed with the changes Ubuntu is making to my the default Gnome installation and the way they try to force Snap packages down my throat.

I never like Ubuntu myself. It just had that air of self importance that felt a bit like thumbing their noses at the rest of the community.

As for Fedora; well here is the problem, some of the software I want to run, (LinuxCNC), runs via a dedicated Ubuntu distro. Fedora does have a flavor that kinds says test platform for RedHat but that is far less of an issue of late. I'd say give it a try or one of its derivatives.

[bug77]

I so love Fedora. I'd feel very disoriented without this distribution.. I would endlessly be distrohopping from the slow world of Debian to the unpredictable and buggy world of Ubuntu's and the annoyingly ever-changing world of rolling systems. Fedora lies in that very nice spot in the middle of all this mess. I really hope that if we will ever have a standard for Linux distributions, it will be mostly modeled after Fedora. Cheers.

It's a matter of taste, to me Ubuntu looks like the reasonable middle ground. And I'm sure OpenSuse is some else's. And that's ok, that's the whole reason we're all using Linux instead of other OSes that shall remain unnamed

[RomuloP]

I do use Fedora as my main distro, but I have some desires myself, I hope Fedora try to be more proprietary friendly in future, that they try to become more up to date with last qt versions and that dnf evolve more (there is unnecessary redownload of metadata in many use cases).

[srakitnican]

One more thing to note about is that Fedora will use Flatpak for all graphical apps starting from 27, which might not come into your favour:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Graphical_Applications_as_Flatpaks

Another layer...cheers

Your link says otherwise...

This change is to enable package maintainers to build Flatpaks of their applications and make those Flatpaks available for installation.

Rpm packages will still be primary source of software. The issue you are talking about was mentioned as a possibility for a discussion, but it is not decided on yet.