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Fedora 38 Being Released Next Tuesday
Fedora 38 Being Released Next Tuesday

The much anticipated Fedora 38 is cleared for releasing on Tuesday. There are no delays with the Fedora 38 cycle and in fact hitting their "early target date" for shipping on 18 April.

14 April 2023 - Fedora 38 On-Schedule - 20 Comments
Fedora Workstation 38 Is Shaping Up To Be Another Fantastic Release
Fedora Workstation 38 Is Shaping Up To Be Another Fantastic Release

I've been playing around with the current development state of Fedora 38 the past few days on several test boxes. While only reaching Fedora 38 Beta this week, it already feels quite polished and stable. To sum it up quite simply, Fedora Workstation 38 is looking like it will be another fantastic release and continuing the modern Fedora Project trend of putting out a bleeding-edge Linux distribution yet production-ready and with far less blemishes compared to releases from years ago.

15 March 2023 - Fedora Workstation 38 Beta - 33 Comments
Fedora Considers Dropping Delta RPMs
Fedora Considers Dropping Delta RPMs

For many years now there has been delta RPM support built into Fedora to allow just downloading the binary difference between the currently installed RPM package and the updated version. While this made sense during the days of limited Internet connectivity/bandwidth, delta RPMs haven't proven useful in years and now Fedora Linux is considering removing this support.

23 February 2023 - No More Delta RPMs? - 46 Comments
Fedora 39 Plots Path For Intel Threaded Building Blocks Upgrade
Fedora 39 Plots Path For Intel Threaded Building Blocks Upgrade

Intel's Threaded Building Blocks (TBB) has been around for many years while with the recent shift to the oneAPI umbrella as oneTBB, in an effort to improve the usability and simplicity of the API they made a number of changes to its interfaces as well as having removed some previously common interfaces. This has led Fedora Linux to running on an older TBB version the past few years while for Fedora 39 later this year they are planning to modernize their Threaded Building Blocks packaging.

17 February 2023 - Intel TBB + Fedora 39 - Add A Comment
Fedora Planning Ahead For The Next 5 Years
Fedora Planning Ahead For The Next 5 Years

The Fedora Project has been working on drafting its strategic plan to help shape the Linux distribution over the next five years. A draft of the plan written up by the Fedora Council has been published and is currently seeking community feedback on their road-map planning.

16 February 2023 - 5 Year Plan For Fedora - 36 Comments
Fedora 38 "Simplified Installer" Aiming To Ease IoT Deployments
Fedora 38 "Simplified Installer" Aiming To Ease IoT Deployments

In addition to the in-development Fedora / Red Hat Anaconda web UI based installer that has been in the works, Fedora IoT is rolling out a new installer of its own to ease deployments around edge computing and Internet of Things devices.

7 February 2023 - Fedora IoT Simplified Installer - 2 Comments
Fedora 38 Change Approved To Mandate Quicker Reboots/Shutdowns
Fedora 38 Change Approved To Mandate Quicker Reboots/Shutdowns

Last month a change proposal was filed for aiming to yield faster reboots and shutdowns of Fedora Linux by shortening the time window that services can block the shutdown process. A modified version of that change proposal has now been cleared by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee.

18 January 2023 - 45 Second Service Window - 32 Comments
Fedora 38 To Beef Up Its Compiler Fortification Defenses
Fedora 38 To Beef Up Its Compiler Fortification Defenses

In addition to Fedora 38 now allowing "no-omit-frame-pointer" to enhance profiling/debugging with possible performance costs, this next Fedora Linux release is also planning to use "_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3" compiler defenses to further bolster security.

4 January 2023 - _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 - 42 Comments
Fedora Decides After All To Allow Default Compiler Flag To Help Debugging/Profiling
Fedora Decides After All To Allow Default Compiler Flag To Help Debugging/Profiling

The past several months saw much discussion over a proposal to add "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" as a default compiler flag to Fedora Linux that would improve profiling/debugging but with possible performance implications that can vary based on the application/workload. While just over one month ago FESCo rejected that change, they re-voted today and decided after all to allow this change to happen but to ensure that packages can easily opt-out if they find performance regressions. By Fedora 40 they will also re-visit the matter to determine if the benefits and performance costs are justified.

3 January 2023 - -fno-omit-frame-pointer - 55 Comments
Fedora 38 Plans For GCC 13, Binutils 2.39 & Glibc 2.37 Toolchain
Fedora 38 Plans For GCC 13, Binutils 2.39 & Glibc 2.37 Toolchain

Fedora has a tradition of always shipping with the very latest open-source compiler toolchain components and central to that is always having the very latest GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). At times this up-to-date toolchain quest has meant shipping a release candidate / near-final GCC build when it comes to their Q2 release of the year that often lands right around the same time as the annual GCC feature release. Fedora 38 will be another release to again aim for the very latest GNU compiler toolchain components.

31 December 2022 - GNU Toolchain - Add A Comment
Fedora 38 Plots Path To Unified Kernel Support
Fedora 38 Plots Path To Unified Kernel Support

Red Hat and Fedora engineers are plotting a path to supporting Unified Kernel Images (UKI) with Fedora Linux and for the Fedora 38 release in the spring they are aiming to get their initial enablement in place.

20 December 2022 - Unified Kernel Images - 56 Comments
GNU Linux-libre's Freed-ora Effort To "Free Fedora" Has Been Sunset
GNU Linux-libre's Freed-ora Effort To "Free Fedora" Has Been Sunset

Freed-ora had been a seldom talked about effort from the Free Software Foundation Latin America maintainers of GNU Linux-libre to ensure a fully free software kernel was installed on interested Fedora Linux systems and that no non-free packages were installed on the system. But now that effort has come to an end.

18 December 2022 - Freed-ora - 44 Comments
Fedora 38 Might Ship With A Sway ISO Spin
Fedora 38 Might Ship With A Sway ISO Spin

While the Sway Wayland compositor has long been available via the Fedora package repositories, Sway fans within the Fedora space are hoping that Fedora 38 will ship with a Fedora Sway spin being available for an easy and out-of-the-box experience for running this i3-inspired Wayland compositor.

2 December 2022 - Fedora 38 Sway - 23 Comments
Fedora's FESCo Rejects The Idea Of "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" As Default Compiler Flag
Fedora's FESCo Rejects The Idea Of "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" As Default Compiler Flag

The past few months there has been a change proposal discussed around adding "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" to the default compilation flags for packages being built for Fedora Linux. Adding this option would improve the profiling/debug-ability of the packages but with possible performance implications. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now rejected this contentious change proposal.

1 December 2022 - Too Much Lost Performance - 34 Comments
Fedora Linux Cleared To Pursue Its Modern C Porting
Fedora Linux Cleared To Pursue Its Modern C Porting

Proposed last month was a Fedora 40 change proposal for "porting Fedora to modern C" that amounts to tightening its C language legacy support. This change focused on ensuring packaged C code is compliant with strict C99 compilers has now been signed off on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo).

16 November 2022 - Modern C For Fedora - 48 Comments
Fedora 38 To Modernize Its Live Media Creation

In addition to Fedora 38 looking at creating Phosh images for mobile devices, Fedora developers now have clearance to go ahead and overhaul how their Fedora Linux live images are assembled.

9 November 2022 - Modernize Fedora Live Media - Add A Comment
Fedora 38 Looking At A Phosh Image For Mobile Devices
Fedora 38 Looking At A Phosh Image For Mobile Devices

It looks like Fedora could be taking on more mobile ambitions with a Phosh image now proposed for running that Wayland shell focused on smartphones and tablets while delivering a good GNOME-based experience. Separately, a change proposal is expected for also introducing a Fedora Linux image with KDE Plasma Mobile.

8 November 2022 - Fedora Mobility With Phosh - 18 Comments
PHP 8.2 Cleared For Introduction In Fedora 38

This should hardly come as a surprise given Fedora's tendency to ship with bleeding-edge package versions, but Fedora Linux 38 next spring will offer PHP 8.2 for those wanting to run a LAMP stack on this modern, Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution.

17 October 2022 - PHP 8.2 + Fedora 38 - 1 Comment
Fedora Linux 37 Beta To Be Released On-Time Next Week
Fedora Linux 37 Beta To Be Released On-Time Next Week

Fedora Linux releases whether they be development/beta snapshots or the stable releases are known for slipping all too often. Fedora will often delay due to blocker bugs as they aim to deliver a bleeding-edge yet reliable Linux distribution and thus a week or two delay here and there isn't uncommon at all. While they have been delivering more timely releases than in the past with their notorious delays, for Fedora Linux 37 Beta they have delivered on the feat of an on-time release.

10 September 2022 - Fedora 37 Beta - 37 Comments
Fedora 38 Looks To Accelerate GnuTLS With Kernel TLS

With Fedora 37 approaching release at the end of October, more feature changes for Fedora 38 next spring are continuing to be discussed. One of the interesting proposals this week is enabling acceleration of GnuTLS using the kernel TLS (kTLS).

8 September 2022 - GnuTLS + kTLS - 10 Comments
The Fedora Linux Rawhide Kernel Is Becoming Too Slow With Its Many Debug Options
The Fedora Linux Rawhide Kernel Is Becoming Too Slow With Its Many Debug Options

Fedora is one of the Linux distributions that ships with a plethora of debug options during its "Rawhide" development phase to ease in diagnosing issues that turn up during testing rather than building everything in a release mode during the development cycle. While these debug options are good for debugging, the performance impact continues adding up and reaching a point that the Fedora Rawhide debug kernel is too slow for some tasks.

24 July 2022 - Expensive Debug Kernel - 19 Comments
Fedora 37 Planning For Binutils 2.38, GNU C Library 2.36

It should be hardly surprising at all for longtime Linux users aware of how Fedora Linux tends to always ship with the most modern open-source compiler toolchain support possible, but for Fedora 37 this autumn they again are planning for the latest and greatest.

4 July 2022 - Fedora 37 Toolchain - 5 Comments
Fedora 37 Looks To Better Manage Its 175MB+ Of Linux Firmware Blobs
Fedora 37 Looks To Better Manage Its 175MB+ Of Linux Firmware Blobs

The size of the linux-firmware.git tree continues to grow with Linux continuing to support more and more modern hardware that is increasingly reliant upon firmware blobs for operation. Most Linux distributions like Fedora end up installing this entire set of Linux firmware files that can easily be 200~300MB even though most systems only use a few select files. With Fedora 37 later this year they are hoping to better deal with the situation by splitting up of linux-firmware and only installing sets of firmware packages depending upon the actual hardware in use.

1 July 2022 - Linux-Firmware Binaries - 32 Comments

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