14 DAY TRIAL // The Fedora project has announced that Fedora 22 is finally available for download for all the new flavors, Workstation, Server, and Cloud.
The Fedora 22 development cycle has been one of the quietest and fastest in the past couple of years. The team seems to have a much better grip on things, and the project hasn't been delayed as much as before. If we also take a look at Fedora 21, which was a great release, we can surmise that Fedora 22 will be even better
What users need to know is that Fedora 22 is not radically different from Fedora 21, and that is one of the reasons why everything went so smoothly. The developers built upon the great foundations of the 21 branch, and now we have a new Fedora stable release that should be even more successful than the previous release. And, from the looks of it, the developers are also back on a six-month release schedule.
A lot is riding on Fedora 22
The Fedora developers have been discussing lately how to improve the adoption of their Linux distro across the spectrum, and they have reached some interesting conclusions, although none of that work will matter if Fedora 22 is not a pillar of stability.
"Every Fedora release has its own character. If this release had a human analogue, it'd be Fedora 21 after it'd been to college, landed a good job, and kept its New Year's Resolution to go to the gym on a regular basis. What we're saying is that Fedora 22 has built on the foundation we laid with Fedora 21 and the work to create distinct editions of Fedora focused on the desktop, server, and cloud (respectively). It's not radically different, but there are a fair amount of new features coupled with features we've already introduced but have improved for Fedora 22," reads the official announcement.
As you can imagine, Fedora is the perfect platform of the latest GNOME 3.16, which makes a great desktop environment and it's full of a lot of cool stuff. The final version of Fedora 22 (which doesn't have a name anymore) can be downloaded from Softpedia.