Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it

Fedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options.

The Fedora Project is the community-led Linux distro that is upstream of Red Hat's CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and of course third-party distros such as Alma Linux and Rocky Linux). This means that in the extensive Red Hat family of Linux distros, Fedora is the leading, or indeed bleeding edge. Fedora is where new technology, tooling, and methods get tried out and refined, and the rough edges smoothed off, before they potentially make their way downstream into the much smaller and more restricted enterprise distros.

Compared to the more widely used Debian and Ubuntu families, and their many offshoots and derivatives, this makes Fedora a very different proposition.

Fedora doesn't have to worry about "stable" or "long-term support" releases. It doesn't have them ...