Ready for some more upgrades? Today Fedora Linux 40 has now been officially released bringing with it big upgrades with GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6 and lots more. Plus the usual assortment of upgrades and enhancements to all the core applications.
With this release you’re getting Linux kernel 6.8, Mesa 24.0.5, Wayland out of the box for the KDE edition, the inclusion of PyTorch for deep learning, numerous security improvements and so much more across the bump in versions of KDE and GNOME with all the enhancements there like improved HDR support in Plasma, experimental Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) in GNOME and so on.
They also revived the Fedora Atomic Desktops branding which includes Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, Fedora Sway Atomic and Fedora Budgie Atomic. So if you fancy a different type of Linux distribution perhaps give those a try that use either ostree or image-based provisioning that the Fedora team say isn’t really “immutable” so it’s being clearer going forward.
See more in the release announcement. And you can see the overview of changes for Fedora Workstation and Fedora KDE.
You might also want to read the interesting blog post titled “Notifications in 46 and beyond”, which goes over the work involved in improving notifications in GNOME thanks to funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
