The next Fedora OS might turn out to be quite interesting

Apr 3, 2014 09:42 GMT  ·  By

The developers of Fedora 21 are making some very important decisions regarding the packages that are going to be integrated.

Fedora 21 is being prepared by the Rad Hat developers and they still have a very long way to go until the distribution starts to take shape. A number of very important decisions will have to be made.

One of the most interesting changes that have been proposed is the adoption of KDE Frameworks 5 in the next Fedora, even if this particular version is still under development.

“KDE Frameworks 5 don't provide any UI or applications on their own, but are meant as extensions and addons for the Qt toolkit. In future there will be various desktop shells like Plasma 2 and applications built on top of KDE Frameworks 5 providing the full-featured KDE desktop,” said Red Hat's Jaroslav Reznik.

Another desktop environment that will get a major update for Fedora 21 is MATE. According to the same Jaroslav Reznik, the next Fedora release will get MATE 1.8, which right now is the latest version released. This might change in time if the MATE developer gets better versions out the door.

Keep in mind that these are just proposals, but they are very likely to happen.