Talk at FUDCon APAC 2016 in Phnom Penh. General overview of recent Fedora Workstation developments.

1. presented by
Jens Petersen @juhp

2. Jens Petersen
Manager, Software Engineering at Red Hat
Fedora and RHEL i18n
Member of Fedora Workstation WG

3. Fedora editions
● Fedora Workstation
● Fedora Server
● Fedora Cloud

4. Download and install
Live iso or netinstall iso image
https://getfedora.org/workstation/

5. Fedora Workstation is:
● reliable, user-friendly and powerful operating
system for laptops and PC hardware
● It supports a wide range of developers, from
hobbyists and students to software
engineers.
● Collection of good default choices for
technical users.

6. Demo

7. Fedora Workstation
philosophy
● Sane defaults
● Reasonable application choices
● Developer friendly but also useful for general
users

8. Fedora Workstation WG
guides Workstation direction technically

9. Fedora 23 highlights
● GNOME 3.18
● Libreoffice 5
● New GNOME Calendar
● GNOME Builder IDE improvements
Released Nov 2015

10. Fedora 24 highlights
● GNOME 3.20
● Libreoffice 5.1
● Flatpak
● Gnome-Software does system upgrades
● Default Latin font improved
Released June 2016

11. Beta released 2016-10-11

12. Fedora 25
● Gnome 3.22
● Wayland display system
● Software tool support for Flatpaks
● Fedora Media Writer tool
● Chromium browser available (not default)
● GNOME Shell extensions versions unrestricted
Release expected Nov 2016

13. GNOME 3.22
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.22/

14. Wayland
● Client isolation
● Replaces complex legacy X protocols
● Designed for modern compositing display
● Extensible: eg desktop touch gestures

15. Flatpak
Talk tomorrow at 4pm

16. Unicode 9.0

17. Emoji input
ibus
Typing Booster

18. Getting involved
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation
Fedora desktop mailing-list
#fedora-workstation on Freenode IRC