Fedora 20 Heisenbug Has Launched, Features ARM Support

Fedora 20, dubbed Heisenbug, has finally launched with future-ready ARM support. Many companies, such as AMD, are prepping a wave of ARM-powered devices for the market. Canonical has already launched a ARM-ready distribution with Ubuntu for ARM.

For those running an ARM-powered Chromebook, the latest ARM distributions are now compatible with their devices. Linux program packages compatible with ARM aren’t as plentiful as those available to Haswell or other machines, still the news is exciting for the future.

Other notable features include improved virtualization with a new “first class” virtual machine.  Heisenbug also has the latest GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and other popular open source desktop environments, new versions of Perl, Ruby on Rails, Wildfly Java Server, and Apache Hadoop are also included.

How to Update

FedoraMagazine has a great guide for upgrading:

If you’re already running Fedora 16 or later, you can easily upgrade in place using the FedUp utility.

Here’s how to make use of FedUp to get your system running Heisenbug in just a few steps. Run:

$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install fedup
$ sudo fedup-cli --network 20

Once that’s finished, you’ll want to reboot to finish the update.

There’s a corner case to check against if you’re running Fedora 18 and a non-system version of FedUp.

Don’t forget–always back up your data before running an upgrade! Also note that if you’re using non-Fedora repositories, you may experience problems updating.

The 953 MB ISO image is available now and it is compatible with 64-bit machines.

Complete release notes can be found here.

Source: Fedora, FedoraMagazine