Its GNOME spin moves to GNOME 44.
Fedora 38 also removes restrictions and whitelisting from its flatpak implementation.
Fedora 38 was released on April 18, 2023.
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Fedora Linux 38: Another Strong Release
Fedora 38 is here.
One of these isBudgie, and the other is a tiling window manager calledSway.
Fedora isn’t aLinux distributionfor those who want to live on the cutting edge.
Evidently, this is a popular viewpoint.
Fedora continues to go from strength to strength.
Fedora 38 has anearly final target dateof April 18.
If required, the date can be pushed back to April 25 as the final target date.
Related:What Is Fedora Linux?
More Desktop Choices
Fedora 38 comes with refreshed versions of many of its supported desktop environments.
The most popular versions or “spins” useXfce4.18,KDE Plasma5.27,MATE1.26,LXQt1.2.0, andGNOME44.
New with this release are two new official spins.
Sway works withi3configuration files.
Related:What Is GNOME in Linux?
GNOME 44
The default Fedora spin ships withGNOME 44.
GNOME launches a new release of its desktop environment every six months or so.
System Menu and Quick tweaks
The system menu has had some improvements.
Each quick prefs button now supports two lines of text.
There’s a new “Screenshot” icon in the top-left corner.
This opens up the screenshot tool.
It behaves exactly as if you’d pressed the “PrtSc” button on your keyboard.
It tells you how many background applications you have running.
Clicking the arrow opens the “Background Apps” menu.
This lists the background applications.
It’s pretty basic.
It doesn’t let you interact with the applications in any other way.
Perhaps that will come in future releases.
This is something users have been asking for, for a long time.
Another long-awaited and frequently-requested enhancement has made it into this release.
That’s the ability to have expandable or navigable directories in the list view.
This has to be enabled in the files web app’s options.
hit the hamburger menu and select
.
This means you might still see what pop in of file it is.
Tabs have received some attention too.
A neat addition is the ability to paste a copied image and create an image file.
GNOME Console Terminal Emulator
The GNOME terminal emulator,
, now has a tabs overview mode.
Hitting "
" opens the overview screen.
The overview shows a thumbnail of each tab.
you’re free to close tabs, drag them to reorder them, and open a new tab.
Clicking a thumbnail closes the overview and takes you to the that tab.
configs program
The configs program has had some improvements too.
The
dialog now offersWireguardVPN as an option.
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The “About” pane now shows the kernel version.
The “Accessibility” pane has been reconfigured to categorize the options into groups.
This makes locating an option much easier.
The “Mouse and Touchpad” pane allows you to configure gestures as well as mouse tweaks.
Mutter has better Wayland integration, which should be most noticeable when you’re using Wayland fractional scaling.
Work continues to root out and replace all of the old GTK3 code.
It also comes with
pre-installed.
The
tool and the Software app both used to point back to the Fedora repositories.
This meant they they installed the applications fromRPM files, the nativeRed Hat package managementsystem.
Repositories in
parlance are called remotes.
The Fedora
implementation used to point back to a Fedora remote.
Fedora 38 changes that.
It removes all whitelisting and filtering and provides unrestricted access to the wider
ecosystem.
Software Versions
As expected, many of the bundled software packages have been updated.
Here are the versions of some of the major applications.
Another Great Release from Fedora
Fedora continues to shine with its latest release.
There’s a comforting robustness and sense of considered engineering about Fedora.
The flip side of that is Fedora is reliable and stable.
And that’s one of its benefits.
you’re able to get started by downloading the official desktop version of Fedora 38 fromFedora Workstation page.
