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Work on beats has now moved to git at https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes. If you have changes or additions, please contact the docs team via #fedora-docs, docs@lists.fedoraproject.org, or with the release-notes BZ component.

Cinnamon Spin

The Cinnamon desktop version 2.6 is now available as a Spin for Fedora 23. Cinnamon is a modern desktop environment based on the GNOME Shell, with advanced features and a traditional and flexible user experience.

Updates and improvements in this release include:

Improved multi-monitor support
HTML5 and XScreenSaver support for animated screensavers
Panel management improvements
New inhibit applet to hide notifications and temporarily suspend power saving events
Redesigned system settings panel for improved usability
Accessibility improvements, including better support for ATK/Orca, magnifiers, and and a new On-Screen Keyboard applet

See the Cinnamon official website for more information on Cinnamon, and go to http://spins.fedoraproject.org to download the Spin.

Sugar

Originally started as part of the One Laptop per child initiative, Sugar is a desktop environment targeted for children ages 5 - 12 to provide learning and educational activities through rich media. Sugar is the core component of a worldwide effort to provide every child with the opportunity for a quality education.

This update to sugar 0.106 includes the following:

improved performance
updated activities
New social help for access to discussion forums and collaborative learning

See the SugarLabs release notes for more information on this sugar release.

GNOME / Workstation

Fedora 23 will feature the latest available version of Gnome - 3.18. More information on Gnome 3.18 can be found here: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes

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-== Major package changes ==
+== Cinnamon Spin ==
+The Cinnamon desktop version 2.6 is now available as a Spin for Fedora 23. Cinnamon is a modern desktop environment based on the GNOME Shell, with advanced features and a traditional and flexible user experience.
-=== man to man-db package exchange ===
+Updates and improvements in this release include:
-The package '''man''' is substituted by  package '''man-db''' which provides similar functionality:
+* Improved multi-monitor support
+* HTML5 and XScreenSaver support for animated screensavers
+* Panel management improvements
+* New inhibit applet to hide notifications and temporarily suspend power saving events
+* Redesigned system settings panel for improved usability
+* Accessibility improvements, including better support for ATK/Orca, magnifiers, and and a new On-Screen Keyboard applet
-man description: The man package includes three tools for finding information and/or documentation about your Linux system: man, apropos, and whatis. The
-man system formats and displays on-line manual pages about commands or functions on your system. Apropos searches the whatis database (containing short descriptions of system commands) for a string. Whatis searches its own database for a complete word.
-man-db description : The man-db package includes five tools for browsing man-pages: man, whatis, apropos, manpath and lexgrog. man preformats and displays manual pages. whatis searches the manual page names. apropos searches the manual page names and descriptions. manpath determines search path for manual pages. lexgrog directly reads header information in manual pages.
+See the [http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ Cinnamon official website] for more information on Cinnamon, and go to [http://spins.fedoraproject.org http://spins.fedoraproject.org] to download the Spin.
-== KDE SC 4.5 ==
+== Sugar ==
-Don't worry - [[User:Crantila|crantila]] is preparing info about this!
-== MeeGo ==
+Originally started as part of the One Laptop per child initiative, Sugar is a desktop environment targeted for children ages 5 - 12 to provide learning and educational activities through rich media. Sugar is the core component of a worldwide effort to provide every child with the opportunity for a quality education.
-MeeGo Netbook UX 1.0 is available in Fedora 14.
+This update to sugar 0.106 includes the following:
+* improved performance
+* updated activities
+* New social help for access to discussion forums and collaborative learning
-The MeeGo™ Architecture is designed to support multiple platforms and usage models ranging from Netbooks and NetTops to Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and various embedded usage models, such as In Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems. MeeGo Netbook UX is built on the GNOME Mobile platform, extending and enriching it with new technologies like Clutter, GUPnP and libsocialweb. The MeeGo Netbook UX is the user environment that sits of top of Fedora and associated MeeGo core services. The netbook user interface and user interaction model for the target devices then is on top of that. The Fedora 14 implementation specifically targets the Netbook UX.
+See the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.106/Notes SugarLabs release notes] for more information on this sugar release.
+== GNOME / Workstation ==
+Fedora 23 will feature the latest available version of Gnome - 3.18. More information on Gnome 3.18 can be found here: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes
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