Fedora 24 Will Use Wayland By Default, Fedora 24 Server Drops 32 Bit Support

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Fedora 24 Workstation Will Use Wayland By Default, Fedora 24 Server Drops 32 Bit Support

As you may already know, the Red Hat developers are working hard at

Wayland, a next generation display server that will slowing get adopted

in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora systems.

Despite the fact that there is still a lot of work to do, Red

Hat’s Christian Schallerhas announced that the plan to use Wayland by

default on Fedora 24 is still standing. Among others, the

developers have to implement proper menu positioning in Wayland, kinetic

scrolling in GTK+, finish the tablet support and remove the X11

dependencies.

While they could implement it on Fedora 23, the developers have

decided to wait for feature-complete release before switching the

default.

Also worth mentioning, Fedora 24 server will drop the 32 bit (i686) architecture, but the repositories will still be there, for the workstation and the official spins.