Users now have additional Operating System choices to use with Fedora VPS servers. Fedora 44 has just been added to the available OS templates for VPS servers. This template is available for immediate deployment and can be selected from the “OS Reinstall” menu in the Server Panel for existing servers.
What’s new in Fedora 44?
Fedora 44 is a major forward-looking release that continues Fedora’s push toward a fully modern Linux desktop and developer platform. It officially released on April 28, 2026.
Here are the biggest highlights:
GNOME 50
Fedora Workstation 44 ships with GNOME 50, bringing one of the largest desktop refreshes in recent Fedora history. Key improvements include:
- New parental controls and digital wellbeing features
- Accessibility improvements like reduced-motion options
- Better remote desktop performance with hardware acceleration
- Improved NVIDIA and variable refresh rate support
- Refinements to Files, Calendar, and other core GNOME apps
X11 Is Essentially Gone
GNOME 50 removes X11 support entirely from upstream GNOME source code, making Fedora 44 a fully Wayland-focused desktop platform for Workstation users.
This matters because:
- Wayland now becomes the default Linux graphics future
- Better security isolation
- Smoother multi-monitor support
- Improved HiDPI and GPU rendering behavior
KDE Plasma 6.6 Improvements
The KDE edition received Plasma 6.6 with major usability upgrades:
- New Plasma Login Manager
- Plasma Setup onboarding workflow
- OCR text extraction in Spectacle
- QR-code Wi-Fi onboarding
- Better accessibility tooling
- Enhanced Wayland support
New Toolchain & Developer Stack
Fedora 44 aggressively updates the developer ecosystem:
- GCC 16.1
- LLVM 22
- Golang 1.26
- Ruby 4.0
- PHP 8.5
- CMake 4.0
- Python 3.14
- glibc 2.43
Fedora remains one of the fastest-moving mainstream Linux distributions for developers wanting cutting-edge language/runtime support.
Reproducible Builds Become Official Policy
Fedora 44 makes reproducible RPM builds an official project requirement.
This improves:
- Supply-chain security
- Package integrity verification
- Build transparency
- Defense against tampered binaries
This is a major ecosystem-level security shift.
Better ARM & Qualcomm Laptop Support
Fedora 44 improves support for:
- Windows-on-ARM laptops
- Qualcomm Snapdragon systems
- Enhanced AArch64 EFI support
Linux on ARM laptops is becoming substantially more practical in this release cycle.
Fedora Cloud & Container Changes
Fedora 44 continues its container-native and immutable OS direction:
- Btrfs
/bootsupport for Fedora Cloud - bootc ecosystem improvements
- DNF5 integration throughout more tooling
- Better image-building workflows
Virtualization Changes
Fedora 44 drops support for 32-bit QEMU host builds.
This mostly affects:
- Legacy virtualization hosts
- Old embedded systems
- Older lab/testing environments
Modern 64-bit virtualization remains fully supported.
Why Fedora 44 Matters
Fedora 44 feels like another “future Linux” milestone release:
- Fully committed to Wayland
- Stronger security and reproducibility
- Faster developer stack updates
- Better ARM hardware support
- Improved immutable/container-native workflows
For developers, sysadmins, and Linux enthusiasts, Fedora 44 is one of the clearest previews of where enterprise Linux and desktop Linux are heading next.
For full documentation: Fedora 44 Release Notes
How to Deploy Fedora 44?
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OS Templates Overview
Please find an updated list of templates available for KVM VPS installations below.
Existing Linux VPS Templates
- AlmaLinux 8 (64 bit)
- AlmaLinux 9 (64 bit)
- AlmaLinux 10 (64 bit)
- Rocky Linux 8 (64 bit)
- Rocky Linux 9 (64 bit)
- Rocky Linux 10 (64 bit)
- Oracle Linux 8 (64 bit)
- Oracle Linux 9 (64 bit)
- Oracle Linux 10 (64 bit)
- CentOS 7 (64 bit)
- CentOS 8 (64 bit)
- CentOS 9 Stream (64 bit)
- Centos 10 Stream (64 bit)
- Debian 10 (64 bit)
- Debian 11 (64 bit)
- Debian 12 (64 bit)
- Debian 13 (64 bit)
- Fedora 42 (64 bit)
- Fedora 43 (64 bit)
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (64 bit)
New VPS Templates
- Fedora 44 (64 bit)
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this update, we encourage you to contact us for support.
For the most updated list of OS templates available, please check the KVM VPS Servers page.
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