Fedora 34 Beta It is now available. In its bid to be the most popular GNOME-environment operating system, I think the 34th version of Fedora will be more interesting than Ubuntu 21.04, since the first one will use GNOME 40 and the second one will stay in GNOME 3.38. Canonical decided to stay with the same version they have been using since October due to a conservatism issue, since GNOME 40 has not yet been released and GTK 4.0 is taking its first steps, but not everyone thinks the same.
Rivalry aside, if there is one, the Fedora team just announced the release of Fedora 34 Beta, and in the article they mention some changes, such as that they will use transparent BTRFS compression or that they will change PulseAudio for PipeWire. The latter should be a minor change at first, but it can be a problem for inexperienced users using apps that rely on PulseAudio. The intention is to improve the experience with Flatpak packages, among other things. Below you have a small list with the most outstanding news that have arrived with Fedora 34 beta.
What's New in Fedora 34 Beta
- gnomes 40.
- Transparent BTRFS compression. The new version will activate it to get more disk space. Also, this compression improves read / write performance for larger files.
- PipeWire replaces PulseAudio. They have opted for the former due to its greater versatility.
- Improved the experience in situations where we run out of memory when activating systemd-oom by default.
- The KDE Plasma version uses Wayland by default.
- KDE Plasma version for aarch64 architecture.
- New spin i3 which is its first spin to use a tiled window manager.
This version should already include the new logo. Users interested in testing Fedora 34 Beta can now download the image from this link. Although it can be installed as native, we recommend doing it in a Live Session or in virtual machine software, such as GNOME Boxes or Virtualbox.