14 DAY TRIAL // Today, October 11, 2016, Fedora Project released the Beta milestone of the upcoming Fedora 25 Linux operating system, due for release in mid-November.
Powered by Linux kernel 4.8.1, the Fedora 25 Beta is shipping with the recently released GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, which is enabled by default on top of a Wayland 1.12 session for the Workstation Edition). Of course, you'll also find the latest software versions, including the LibreOffice 5.2.2 office suite, Flatpak 0.6.12, Mozilla Firefox 49.0 web browser, and LibVirt 2.2.0.
Additionally, users will find the Mesa 12.0.3 3D Graphics Library for better and faster graphics support, OpenSSH 7.3p1 and OpenSSL 1.0.2j for improved security, Python 3.5.2, Samba 4.5.0, systemd 231, TigerVNC 1.7.0, and the latest Git snapshot of the upcoming X.Org Server 1.19.0 display server. The KDE Edition of Fedora 25 Beta includes the KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop environment.
Fedora 25 launches November 15, 2016
Now that the Beta milestone is released, the development cycle of the Fedora 25 operating system is quickly drawing to an end. The next step is the Final Freeze stage, which is currently set for the first day of November, in about three weeks from the moment of writing this article. After that, the final Fedora 25 release should hit the streets on November 15, if no unexpected delays occur.
Until then, we invite you today to test drive the Beta release of Fedora 25 Linux, which is available for download right now via our website for 64- and 32-bit systems, as Workstation, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, MATE-Compiz, and Cinnamon editions. We have to warn you, though. that this is a pre-release version, which means that it might contain unresolved issues and it's not ready for deployment in production environments.