Community Releases Fedora 22 Beta with XFS File System

The Fedora community released the first beta version of its eponymous operating system on Tuesday. The Server edition uses the xfs file system by default, following its big brother Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

In all editions of Fedora, the Yum package management software has been replaced by Dandified Yum, or Dnf-yum. The successor to the management software should perform better. In addition, the Dnf-yum uses Libsolv, a dependency resolver from the OpenSuse stable. That writes the Fedora community.

Fedora 22 also features the updated GNOME 3.16 notification system. In addition to numerous small, invisible changes, there are major changes to the default appearance. For example, the notification menu is now in the middle of the top bar. The notification system also shows the history of notifications and the calendar can now display world times. Besides the standard Gnome environment, Fedora is also available in other flavors via Beta Desktop Spins.

Furthermore, the Server edition now uses the xfs file system by default, which was previously announced. The xfs file system runs on top of lvm volumes, except on the boot sector as this is technically impossible. The file system is more scalable within cloud environments and defragmentation can also take place while the file system is in use.

Fedora 22 is expected to release on May 26, slightly later than announced. Fedora is one of Red Hat’s three Linux distributions. In addition to the free Fedora, the American company also offers the free CentOS, which is also popular on servers. It mainly makes money from the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux distro. That distribution was already equipped with the xfs file system last year.