Fedora 24

[viking60]

I have had this on my box for quite some time.

I have upgraded from Fedora 23 to Fedora 24 which went well.

Today I looked into it again and upgraded 549 files - surely that will break something after all this time!?

So I did a

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sudo dnf update

and let it work for a loong time.

It all went through after a reboot It was business as usual.

Fedora is becoming a good desktop these days. Some complaints about vbox client stuff but all in all you can now upgrade and continue working without the traditional "Fedora breaking on purpose" effect


Fedora comes with SELinux activated so you will have a hardened Linux desktop - "harder" than most other Distros as in pretty secure.

The SELinux may sometimes stop you from doing your stuff so you may have to temporarily shut it of:
To check the status:

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getenforce

Here the answer will be

Enforcing

To shut it off:

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setenforce 0

Now the answer to getenforce will be:

Permissive

To turn it on again:

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setenforce 1

Just mentioning it since this is not so common on other distros.

Distros that prove themselves over time will be favorites on most desktops - Fedora is getting there !

[viking60]

I visited my Fedora 24 again today and there were 253 updates!
In the old days that was the same as trouble...

The update went through ...and everything worked perfectly! Fedora 24 is actually stable!

[viking60]

Update one month later with DNF that the Fedora guys have found to be an abbreviation for Dandified Yum (Rule to remember: "Did Not Finish").

Still nothing broken and well behaved despite lots of updates.

Microsoft has released its MSSQL database for Linuxand Fedora has it I might give it a spin.