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The Register looks
forward to the upcoming Fedora 45 release.

The biggest surprise is that Linux’s legacy in-kernel console – the
text-mode interface normally hidden beneath the GUI – has been
replaced with a software-controlled alternative.
The replacement is kmscon, a
userspace terminal emulator that has been in development for more
than a decade.