So now Fedora 25 is released!
Fedora is among the most important distros out there so it is always worth to follow and my experience with Fedora 24 has been very positive with a fully functional and stable distro over a long time span.
The big new thing is that Wayland is replacing X11 - it has been talked about for years and now it has happened, but they don't seem to be to confident about it:
Wayland now replaces the old X11 display server by default. Its goal is to provide a smoother, richer experience when navigating Fedora Workstation. Like all software, there may still be some bugs. You can still choose the old X11 server if required. After selecting the login user, use the settings icon to switch. But this newer display server is designed to keep up with the modern OS and hardware.
If you want to install fedora 25 from scratch this is the procedure:
To run Fedora Workstation, you will need:
Fedora Media Writer (download above)
A USB Flash drive with at least 1.3 GB space available
Fedora Workstation is provided via Fedora Media Writer. Download this program via the download link above and run it on your system, following the prompts to generate a live version (see 'What does "Live" mean?' to the right) of Fedora Workstation on a USB flash drive. You may then run the live version of Fedora Workstation from your USB flash drive.
Optionally, you may install Fedora Workstation to a laptop or desktop computer that has at least 1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, and 10 GB space available. To do this, run the live version of Fedora Workstation from your USB flash drive on the computer you'd like to install to, run the Fedora Media Writer application, and follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.
This sounds unnecessarily complicated to me. What happened to the good old burning iso?
Is that
?Less setup, more innovation
Anyway if you have a Fedora 24 install it really is easy, here is what I did:
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sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
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sudo dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=25 --allowerasing
The alowerasing part is not manadtory but the Fedora will start whining about python and dependencies.
After that Fedora starts the upgrade process.
It all went fine and at the end I was instructed to do a:
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dnf system-upgrade reboot
Doing that now....
This is probably the point where Fedora will honor its former tradition of breaking something (not so with Fedora 24 though) and I was urged to take a backup which I ignored of course...
If you use Gnome there is also a GUI update - but I am underwhelmed by Gnome 3 so I am using Xfce4 and needed to use the CLI.
I had other things to do than fixing broken Gnome extensions, but Fedora has spent some lines explaining that the Gnome 3 core is now changing less rapidly so the extensions will stay - that would be an improvement.
..and that upgrade is still running....
and