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Fedora 26 Linux Officially Released, Ships with GNOME 3.24 and Linux Kernel 4.11

Prominent new features of the Fedora 26 operating system include the GNOME 3.24.2 desktop environment for Fedora Workstation edition, Linux kernel 4.11.8, DNF 2.0 as default package manager, GCC 7 as default compiler, systemd-coredump by default, SSSD fast cache for local users, pkgconf as default system pkg-config implementation, and 48bit VA on AArch64 (ARM64) architectures. Fedora 26 is the first to deprecate the xorg-x11-drv-synaptics driver and to introduce a new Fedora Labs Spin called Python Classroom Lab edition, which is designed for Python teachers and workshop instructors. Fedora 26 also ships with up-to-date components, including but not limited to Python 3.6, OpenSSL 1.1.0, Boost 1.63, Ruby 2.4, GHC 8.0, and Golang 1.8.

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