Fedora 24 Linux Beta Officially Released, Ships with GNOME 3.20 and Kernel 4.5

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

After being delayed three times, the Beta of the upcoming Fedora 24 Linux operating system has finally arrived today, May 10, 2016, as announced a few moments ago by Fedora Project’s Paul W. Frields.

Shipping with the recently released GNOME 3.20.1 desktop environment (by default only for the Workstation Edition), the latest GNU C Library 2.23 and GNU Compiler Collection 6, Fedora 24 Beta is powered by the newest Linux 4.5.2 kernel and includes lots of improvements and bug fixes over the Alpha build.

“The Fedora 24 Workstation release will not default to Wayland, the next generation graphic stack, but this is planned for future releases. Wayland is available as an option, and the Workstation team would greatly appreciate your help in testing it out. Our goal is to have one full release where Wayland works almost seamlessly as a drop in replacement for X11,” said Paul W. Frields, ex-Fedora Project leader, in today’s <a target="_blank" href="https://fedoramagazine.or… (read…

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