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Fedora 22 for aarch64 is here!

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We are proud to announce the official release of Fedora 22 for aarch64,

the community-driven and community-built operating system now available

in Cloud, Server, and Workstation editions.

 

If that's all you need to hear, jump over to Get Fedora to download

-- or for current users, run the FedUp upgrade tool.

 

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/AArch64/F22/Installation

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp

 

In addition to the latest versions of all your favorite free and

open source software, Fedora 22 marks our second release with

distinctly-targeted offerings for cloud computing, the server room,

and the desktops and laptops of software developers and creators

everywhere. Thanks to the hard work of developers, designers,

packagers, translators, testers, documentation writers, and

everyone else, we're incredibly confident in saying that this is

our best and most polished release yet.

 

Also with this release, we return to our traditional six-month

cadence -- we'll see you back here sometime around Halloween!

 

 

Highlights in the Fedora 22 release

===================================

 

Every Fedora release has its own character. If this release had a

human analogue, it'd be Fedora 21 after it'd been to college,

landed a good job, and kept its New Year's Resolution to go to the

gym on a regular basis. What we're saying is that Fedora 22 has

built on the foundation we laid with Fedora 21 and the work to

create distinct editions of Fedora focused on the desktop, server,

and cloud (respectively). It's not radically different, but there

are a fair amount of new features coupled with features we've

already introduced but have improved for Fedora 22.

 

Fedora Server

-------------

 

* Database Server Role -- The Fedora Server edition focuses on easy of

different server roles. Fedora 21 debuted with an Domain Controller

Role featuring FreeIPA. For this release, we've added a Database

Server role, built around PostgreSQL.

 

* Default to XFS filesystem -- The default file system type for

Fedora Server installs will be XFS running atop LVM for all

partitions except /boot. The /boot partition will remain a non-LVM,

ext4 partition due to technological limitations of the bootloader.

 

* Cockpit will be compatible between OS releases -- Cockpit is a

server manager that makes it easy to administer your GNU/Linux

servers via a web browser.

 

- Easy to use. Cockpit is perfect for new sysadmins, allowing

them to easily perform simple tasks such as storage

administration, inspecting journals and starting and stopping

services.

 

- No interference. Jumping between the terminal and the web

tool is no problem. A service started via Cockpit can be

stopped via the terminal. Likewise, if an error occurs in the

terminal, it can be seen in the Cockpit journal interface.

 

- Multi-server. You can monitor and administer several servers

at the same time.

 

 

Other changes of note

=====================

 

Faster and better dependency management with DNF

------------------------------------------------

 

With Fedora 22, we're introducing a major change under the hood.

Specifically, we're now using DNF and hawkey to manage packages.

DNF is much like the Yum software package manager (it's largely

command-line compatible), but re-written and re-engineered to

provide optimal performance and (along with Hawkey) provide a

strict API definition for plugins and extending projects. DNF also

makes use of the libsolv library initially pioneered by the

openSUSE Project to provide faster and better dependency

management.

 

It also boasts a better performance and memory footprint vs. Yum,

and is designed to have a cleaner codebase and be easier to

maintain.

 

If you're using the Fedora 22 Workstation edition, and managing

packages with the Software Application, odds are you won't notice a

difference. Server and Cloud users who fall back on Yum commands

will receive a reminder (courtesy of dnf-yum) that Yum is

deprecated and DNF is now the default package manager. DNF has been

in development for quite some time, so we're confident it's ready

for prime time. The classic Yum command line tool has been renamed

to yum-deprecated as a transitional step for tools still using it.

See Read The Docs for compatibility changes from Yum to DNF in

detail.

 

GNU Compiler Collection 5

-------------------------

 

Fedora 22 comes with GCC 5.1 as the primary compiler suite.

 

 

Downloads, upgrades, documentation, and common bugs

==================================================

 

You can start by downloading Fedora 22:

 

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/AArch64/F22/Installation

 

If you are upgrading from a previous release of Fedora, refer to:

 

* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading

 

Fedora's FedUp utility enables an easy upgrade to Fedora 22 from

previous releases. See the FedUp page on the Fedora wiki for more

information:

 

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp

 

Documentation

-------------

 

Read the full release notes for Fedora 22, guides for several languages,

and learn about known bugs and how to report new ones:

 

* http://docs.fedoraproject.org/

 

Fedora 22 common bugs are documented at:

 

* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F22_bugs

 

This page includes information on several known non-blocker bugs in

Fedora 22. Please be sure to read it before installing!

 

Read this announcement in glorious full color on Fedora Magazine, at

 

* http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-22-released

 

and follow the Magazine for regular user-focused articles covering

all things Fedora.

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