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Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default
Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default

Fedora Workstation has long defaulted to using GNOME's Wayland session by default, but it has continued to install the GNOME X.Org session for fallback purposes or those opting to use it instead. But for the Fedora Workstation 41 release later in the year, there is a newly-approved plan to no longer have that GNOME X.Org session installed by default.

7 March 2024 - Fedora 41 - 144 Comments
Fedora Workstation's Anaconda Web UI Installer Delayed To Fedora 41
Fedora Workstation's Anaconda Web UI Installer Delayed To Fedora 41

For over two years Red Hat's engineers working on the Anaconda installer have been working on a modern web-based installer UI that integrates with Cockpit and is a modern alternative to their GTK-based installer interface for deploying Fedora Linux and eventually RHEL too. The hope was to offer this web UI installer option for Fedora Workstation 40 but that's now been delayed to Fedora 41.

19 February 2024 - Anaconda Web Installer - 22 Comments
Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered
Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered

System76 has been developing the Rust-based COSMIC desktop for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution but its usage won't be artificially limited to that in-house distro. Among other distributions that have been looking toward packaging it, interest is currently being evaluated in creating a Fedora special interest group (SIG) for the COSMIC desktop environment.

17 February 2024 - COSMIC - 123 Comments
Fedora Linux 40 Looks To Replace iotop With iotop-c
Fedora Linux 40 Looks To Replace iotop With iotop-c

Fedora Linux already ships an iotop-c package for this C alternative to the common iotop program for reporting I/O metrics under Linux, but with the upcoming Fedora 40 release it's looking at having iotop-c replace the original iotop.

22 January 2024 - Fedora + iotop-c - 28 Comments
Fedora 40 Looks At Packaging Its Own PyTorch
Fedora 40 Looks At Packaging Its Own PyTorch

While on Fedora and other Linux distributions it can be as easy as running "pip3 install torch" or similar for deploying the PyTorch machine learning framework, Fedora 40 is looking at packaging PyTorch on its own for enhancing the Fedora Linux user experience.

11 January 2024 - Fedora + PyTorch - 11 Comments
Fedora 40 Moving Ahead In Beefing Up Its Security
Fedora 40 Moving Ahead In Beefing Up Its Security

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" has signed off on two separate change proposals for further enhancing the system security with the in-development Fedora 40 Linux to be released in April.

4 January 2024 - Fedora 40 Security - Add A Comment
Fedora 40's Linker Will Now Error Out On Security Issues
Fedora 40's Linker Will Now Error Out On Security Issues

In addition to Fedora 40 applying systemd hardening settings to bolster system security, another security enhancement now approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is on having the linker error out on encountering possible security issues.

15 December 2023 - Linker Security - 5 Comments
Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly
Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly

Fedora 40 is eyeing the next phase of its unified kernel (UKI) support within the distribution that will include the ability to support booting to unified kernel image files directly without having to go through a traditional bootloader like GRUB or SD-Boot.

6 December 2023 - Fedora 40 Booting UKIs - 35 Comments
Fedora 40 Looking To Change Linker To Error Out On Security Issues
Fedora 40 Looking To Change Linker To Error Out On Security Issues

A change proposal currently undergoing discussion for Fedora 40 would change their toolchain's (BFD) linker to error out on potential security issues. Currently BFD is emitting warnings on potential security problems but the F40 proposal is to instead error out so the program being built will fail to link when hitting recognized security issues.

15 November 2023 - Fedora 40 BFD Linker - 2 Comments
Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November
Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November

While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal "early final" release on 18 October, that didn't happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again. Now the earliest Fedora 39 will possibly shift is 7 November.

27 October 2023 - Fedora 39 Delayed - 17 Comments
The Fedora 39 Release Has Been Held Up By Raspberry Pi Bugs
The Fedora 39 Release Has Been Held Up By Raspberry Pi Bugs

Fedora 39 failed to make its "early" release target date, it didn't meet its otherwise targeted release date one week later, and is now facing another possible setback still. These release delays have been due to outstanding blocker bugs all related to the Raspberry Pi.

25 October 2023 - Fedora 39 Delays - 10 Comments
Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support
Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support

In addition to Fedora 40 planning to ship KDE Plasma 6.0 and without any X11 session support, Fedora stakeholders are also looking at shipping GNOME for the Fedora Workstation 40 release without any X11 session support.

19 September 2023 - No GNOME X.Org Session - 171 Comments
Fedora Workstation 39 Planning To Drop Custom Qt Theming
Fedora Workstation 39 Planning To Drop Custom Qt Theming

Fedora Workstation has long maintained the QGnomePlatform and Adwaita-qt projects for applying a GNOME/GTK-like interface and styling to Qt applications in order to enhance the experience. However, to reduce the maintenance burden and the ongoing technical debt, Fedora Workstation 39 is planning to eliminate the custom Qt theming and just rely on Qt upstream.

23 August 2023 - Fedora 39 - 27 Comments
Upgraded GNU Compiler Toolchain Approved For Fedora 39
Upgraded GNU Compiler Toolchain Approved For Fedora 39

It shouldn't come as much surprise for those familiar with Fedora given its tendency to always ship with the very latest open-source compiler toolchain components, but this autumn's release of Fedora 39 will once again have all the leading-edge GNU compiler pieces.

11 August 2023 - Fedora 39 Features - 7 Comments
Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware
Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware

Asahi Linux is great for those wanting to run the best Linux experience on Apple Silicon hardware while using this Arch Linux based distribution. But for those preferring Fedora Linux over Arch, a Fedora Asahi Remix is coming and was announced today at the Flock To Fedora conference.

2 August 2023 - Fedora Asahi Remix - 82 Comments
DNF5 Isn't Ready For Fedora 39 - Now Delayed To Fedora 41
DNF5 Isn't Ready For Fedora 39 - Now Delayed To Fedora 41

For over a year Fedora / Red Hat has been planning for major package management changes with DNF5. The hope for months has been to use DNF5 by default for Fedora 39 but that is no longer going to work out... FESCo has decided to reject DNF5 for Fedora 39 and then due to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 branching with Fedora 40, this means DNF5 isn't expected by default until at least Fedora 41 in late 2024.

27 July 2023 - No DNF5 For Fedora 39 - 29 Comments
Fedora 39 Aims For A Colored Bash Prompt
Fedora 39 Aims For A Colored Bash Prompt

In addition to Fedora 39 aiming to use the Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation, shipping the latest and greatest open-source compiler toolchain components, enhance Linux gaming compatibility, eliminate Flathub filtering, and dozens of other improvements, there are also plans for a more mundane change: a colored bash prompt.

7 July 2023 - Fedora 39 - 24 Comments
Two Fedora Spins Eye Going X.Org-less
Two Fedora Spins Eye Going X.Org-less

The Fedora Sericea and Sway spins are eyeing the possibility of shipping without the xorg-x11 packages for being the first X.Org-less desktop spins in the Fedora Linux world.

23 June 2023 - Xorg-less Fedora Spins - 50 Comments
Fedora Developers Discuss An Idea For Using U-Boot On x86 BIOS Systems
Fedora Developers Discuss An Idea For Using U-Boot On x86 BIOS Systems

Last year Fedora and Red Hat developers began discussing the idea of dropping legacy BIOS support and to then only focus on UEFI platforms. There was a plan to deprecate BIOS support in Fedora 37 but ultimately it didn't go through due to some cloud providers still booting VMs in BIOS mode and some systems having broken UEFI implementations. An idea has now been raised over the possibility of using U-Boot on x86 BIOS systems to provide a UEFI-like experience from the Fedora perspective.

23 May 2023 - Fedora + U-Boot + x86 BIOS Platforms - 15 Comments
Fedora Onyx Aims To Be A New Fedora Linux Immutable Variant
Fedora Onyx Aims To Be A New Fedora Linux Immutable Variant

While there is already Fedora Silverblue as a Fedora Workstation variant leveraging RPM-OSTree for creating an ummutable OS image and Fedora Kinoite as a KDE-based alternative, Fedora Onyx has been proposed as a new immutable variant of Fedora Linux.

1 May 2023 - Fedora Onyx - 33 Comments

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