Fedora 22 released almost on time
Great Expectations

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Fedora 22 was released a week late, but it is seriously impressive with Gnome 3.16 and the new DNF package manager. Only the installer, Anaconda, might cause beginners a headache.
Fedora serves as a test laboratory for Red Hat business distributions while constantly providing new ideas and developments for the Linux community as a whole; thus, it plays a special role in the Linux world. The wages for a number of Gnome developers come from Red Hat's petty cash, and the makers of systemd are financed from the same source.
Fedora is continuously reinventing itself; a whole year elapsed between versions 20 and 21, during which priorities with respect to the Fedora.next [1] project were reset and developers were put in a position to publish three editions in the future instead of just one. The distribution is now divided into Workstation, Cloud, and Server variants (where Workstation is the version for desktop users) in preparation for the future and to allow current developments to thrive in a native environment.
Gnome as Standard
Fedora 22 [2] sees the first release in the regular six-month cycle under the new scheme finally reach the mainstream. The basic components, kernel 4.0, GCC 5.0, systemd 219, the Anaconda installer, and the new DNF package manager (which replaces the proven Yum) form the common base for the three sections. The workstation version continues to use Gnome as its desktop environment; Fedora has opted for the latest version 3.16 (Figure 1).
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