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Fedora development team officially announces the release of Fedora 22 Beta with a preview of latest free and open source technology. Well as the name resembles, this is beta version which is primarily available to identify bugs and also includes several new features which might be implemented in final release. The final release of Fedora 22 is expected to arrive in mid May.

According to official announcement, Fedora 22 Beta has faster and better dependency management because Yum is replaced with DNF as default package manager. Well DNF has similar command line options and configuration files compared to yum along with several major internal changes including using libsolv in coordination with friends from openSUSE project for faster and better dependency management. You might also like to check out recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Currently, Fedora 22 beta is available in three flavors which are Fedora 22 Cloud, Fedora 22 Server and Fedora 22 Workstation. The Fedora 22 Cloud comes with number of improvements such as updated versions of rpm-ostree and rpm-ostree-toolbox along with atomic command line tool. Fedora 22 Server edition includes XFS as default filesystem along with few cockpit updates. You can review the detailed list of all improvements on their official announcement page.