What’s new in Fedora 23 Workstation

I have used Debian and related distributions most of my GNU/Linux life, but have tried others. On a whim I switched to Fedora 22 a number of months ago as I'd never seen how the other half lives. I found 22 to be good, but hit a few stability issues as time went on. I persevered to give it a fair go as non of the issues were show stoppers, troubleshooting and waiting for 23 before switching back to my comfort zone.

I just upgraded to 23 and found immediately that it's more snappy. Time will tell if all of my issues have been resolved but find it very promising.

I tried using the new Fedora dnf upgrade method yesterday on my Lenovo ultrabook. Of course I made a dd image backup of my current /dev/sda in advance just for insurance, but the upgrade was perfect with no issues whatsoever. This release appears to be pretty solid.

I did the same and was impressed with the upgrade procedure myself. I haven't looked into how they do it, but Feodora's method of rebooting into a dedicated environment for updates and upgrades is very slick.

@cybertao, The details are described in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_System_Upgrades. It uses a combination of dnf plugin to download and systemd functionality to upgrade in a special mode designed for upgrades

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdat...

Cheers, that kicked the apathy out of me and was worth reading. :) I'm loving Fedora 23 and will be sticking with it.

I guess thats one way to fix having systemd kill a long running update process...

@750, The upgrade related services already had a longer timeout which can be controlled on a per unit level. It doesn't require the upgrade mode. The upgrade goes beyond that and creates a minimal environment that makes upgrading the components more robust. Essentially a souped up runlevel.

> The upgrade goes beyond that and creates a minimal environment that makes upgrading the components more robust.

So Red Hat has recreated WinPE for Linux?

WinPE does a lot of things including memory diagnostics, automatic recovery and so on. The upgrade mode in systemd is similar to a runlevel. A package manager can use it to upgrade regular packages. Nothing more. dracut does provide a minimal initrd for recovery but it is independent functionality.