Fedora Linux 44 beta unifies the KDE Plasma experience across editions

Available for a wide range of hardware architectures, as usual, the latest beta release of Fedora Linux allows users to preview what they will get in the upcoming 44 release. While beta releases might be sometimes available for some Fedora Spins and Labs, the versions that got the latest 44 beta are the following five: Workstation, KDE Plasma Desktop, Server, IoT, and Cloud. In addition to them, the Fedora Linux 44-based CoreOS also got the features of this beta release.

The highlights of Fedora Linux 44 beta include the following:

• Anaconda now only creates network device profiles configured by boot options, kickstart, or interactively by the user.
• All Fedora KDE variants get the post-install Plasma Setup application, which also handles the Anaconda configuration tasks.
• SDDM is replaced by Plasma Login Manager in the KDE variants as the default login manager.
• The Games Lab deliverable moves from Xfce to KDE Plasma to get the latest Wayland stack for gaming.
• Budgie 10.10 slides from X11 to Wayland on the path to the next major release.

In addition to the above, the LiveCD gets various improvements, including automatic DTB selection for AArch64 EFI systems. Other changes across various versions include GNU Toolchain updates, reproducible package builds, new RPM macros, the introduction of the Nix package manager developer tool, Golang 1.26, Django 6.x, and much more. The full list of changes coming to Fedora 44 can be found on this page.