14 DAY TRIAL // The Red Hat developers have announced that the upcoming Fedora 21 release will be delayed by three weeks, but that's hardly a surprise.
The Fedora distribution has the habit of arriving late. It's almost never on time and the upcoming Fedora 21 keep to this tradition closely. You can even say that it's not really a Fedora release unless it slips past its deadline by at least a few weeks.
“As you probably noticed, Fedora 21 is still not frozen (Alpha Change Deadline was planned for this Tuesday, 2014-07-22), due to several issues we hit while working on the Alpha release (incomplete test composes etc).”
“There's also Flock being held in the beginning of August (2014-08-06 - 2014-08-09) in Prague and many contributors would like to enjoy this event instead of being trapped in the release windmills. I hope to meet you all there! Therefore, on yesterday's FESCo meeting it was decided to slip Fedora 21 by three weeks including the Alpha Change Deadline,” says Red Hat's Jaroslav Reznik.
The first Alpha version for Fedora 21 should now arrive on August 28, but that will only happen if the developers manage to fix the problems that are delaying the release. Users can't test the upcoming Fedora 21 because there is no development version out yet.
In the meantime, you can download Fedora 20 and check it out so you get familiar with the system.