Two of the biggest names in fixed-release distros are nearly finished and ready to drop. You can taste them now, but they're not fully baked yet.

This cycle, Fedora 43 started plumping a little before Ubuntu. The project just released the beta version and it has an uncharacteristically short list of new features. There is a full changeset document that lists all the updated components, but at the time of writing, systemd is notably absent.

All editions of Fedora 43 use the new browser-based installer , called Anaconda WebUI. As it happens, this parallels the Agama installer in the openSUSE Leap 16 RC that we looked at last month .

When we wrote about this six months ago looking at the beta of Fedora 42, the new installer was only used in the GNOME Workstation edition. Now it's in all th

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