Fedora 20 comes out and sees ARM as “primary architecture”

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Fedora 20, with the nickname ‘Heisenbug’ has been published. The Linux distribution considers ARM is now the primary architecture and offering the same support for ARM processors like x86 chips from Intel and AMD.

Fedora 20 bears the name Heisenbug: a term that refers to the uncertainty relation of Heisenberg, but it indicates how a bug can disappear at any attempt at examination. New in the distribution is the support for ARMv7 hard floating point. ARM is what support is concerned, now as a primary architecture on an equal footing with x86-based processors from Intel and AMD. Fedora admits that x86/x86_64, still the default is for the majority of its users, but the project will see a significant growth in the use of the ARM and a dominance of the architecture of the mobile market.

By default in Fedora 20 has no Sendmail installed as a regular installation, with no Mail Transfer Agent is needed, according to the developers. Also syslog is missing in the new version. The standaarddesktopomgeving is Gnome 3.10, where Ubuntu is more on Unity, focus, OpenSUSE, ubuntu moves in the direction of KDE and Mint with Cinnamon 2.0 are own Firefox fork develops.

Gnome 3.10 comes with Music, Maps and Photo apps, in addition to a Software app installer. In addition, it contains Heisenbug KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11 and also is Apache Hadoop 2.2.0. Fedora mentions the support for First-Class Cloud Images: disk images that are stable on Amazon Web Services and OpenStack should run. Finally, WildFly 8 and Ruby on Rails 4.0 added for developers.