The Fedora Project released today the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 44 for public testing to give us a glimpse of the new features and report potential bugs.

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.19 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 44 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 50 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, as well as the latest KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment for the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition.

Some interesting features in Fedora Linux 44 include Plasma Login Manager as the default login manager on all Fedora KDE variants instead of SDDM, automatic DTB selection for AArch64 (ARM64) EFI systems, and support for the latest Budgie 10.10 desktop environment on the Fedora Budgie spin.