Fedora Linux Distro to No Longer Offer Alpha Builds Starting with Fedora 27

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

While the upcoming Fedora 26 Linux operating system is yet to get its first Alpha development snapshot, due for release on March 21, 2017, Red Hat’s Fedora Program Manager Jan Kurik announced that Alpha builds will be dropped for Fedora 27.

Yes, believe it or not, the Fedora developers have decided that Alpha versions should be removed from the development cycle of a new Fedora Linux release, starting with Fedora 27, whose release schedule is yet to be published. Why? Because it looks like the Rawhide version of Fedora is considered of Alpha quality, always.

“This will make it more generally useful to people as a daily driver and development platform, and mean we no longer need to go through the process of building, testing and shipping Alpha releases,” reads the new proposal. “The initial testing will be ensuring that a package is installable and that it does not break existing packages installation…. (read more)

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