Fedora should not push its users to its own Flatpak repository

Unlike most (all?) other distributions with built-in Flatpak support, Fedora maintains its own repository of Flatpak applications. Everyone else defaults to using Flathub, where developers of applications themselves tend to publish their Flatpaks. Fedora's 'shadow Flathub' sometimes leads to problems, with Fe

https://www.osnews.com/story/141723/fedora-should-not-push-its-users-to-its-own-flatpak-repository/

Fedora proposes dropping Atomic desktops for PPC64LE

Fedora is proposing to stop building their Atomic desktop versions for PPC64LE. PopwerPC 64 LE basically comes down to IBM's POWER architecture, and as far as desktop use goes, that exclusively means the POWER9 machines from Raptor Computing Systems. I reviewed their small single-socket Blackbird machine in 2021, and I also have

https://www.osnews.com/story/141366/fedora-proposes-dropping-atomic-desktops-for-ppc64le/

Fedora’s new Btrfs SIG should focus on making Btrfs’ features more accessible

As Michel Lind mentioned back in August, we wanted to form a Special Interest Group to further the development and adoption of Btrfs in Fedora. As of yesterday, the SIG is now formed.
↫ Neal Gompa

Since I've been using Fedora on all my machines for a while now, I've also bee

https://www.osnews.com/story/141361/fedoras-new-btrfs-sig-should-focus-on-making-btrfs-features-more-accessible/

@zombiewarrior You are correct about the OpenSouce / FOSS type stuff. It's just #BSD never landed w/ me. I was having a difficult enough time trying to figure out #fedoracore 5 (i think it was). I mean, i was probably afraid to switch to Ubuntu. (.rpm to .deb). #opensuse something else for a while. Mint.
but, never BSD.
the guy i used to "partner" with, wso.host
i think he knows about BSD. super tuned Apache server from the 90's. haha.
it works.
but the VPS he and i admin'd -- it is #CentOS

Fedora KDE approved to become of equal status to Fedora GNOME

Earlier this year, a proposal was made to replace the primary edition of Fedora from the GNOME variant to the KDE variant. This proposal, while serious, was mostly intended to stir up discussion about the position of the Fedora KDE spin within the larger Fedora community, and it seems this has had its intended

https://www.osnews.com/story/141098/fedora-kde-approved-to-become-of-equal-status-to-fedora-gnome/

#BIRTHDAY 2003-11-06 14:19:18 UTC Fedora Core 1 - https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2003-November/msg00000.html

Fedora 40 released with KDE Plasma 6 and GNOME 46

It's a big day for Fedora users such as myself - and especially for Fedora KDE users, also such as myself. Fedora 40 has been released today, and while the main focus is always on the GNOME release - although not everyone is happy about that - the various other spins, in Fedora parlance, have also seen major updates. Most prominently

https://www.osnews.com/story/139405/fedora-40-released-with-kde-plasma-6-and-gnome-46/

Today is the scheduled release day of Fedora 40, which reminds me of how long I've been using Fedora - since Fedora Core 1, and before that Red Hat Linux (alongside Debian & FreeBSD).

And it makes me a little depressed, because now I think about how long I've been around, now well over 50 years old and won't see another 40 releases due to my age.

Fedora intends to fully embrace “AI”, but doesn’t address sourcing or its environmental impact

All weekend, I've been mulling over a recent blog post by Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller, which he wrote and published on behalf of the Fedora Council. Fedora (the KDE version) is my distribution of choice, I love using it, and I consider

https://www.osnews.com/story/139293/fedora-intends-to-fully-embrace-ai-but-doesnt-address-sourcing-or-its-environmental-impact/

Fedora change proposal suggests switching the main Fedora Workstation release to KDE Plasma

I have been assured by the main author of the proposal itself that this is very much not an April Fools joke, but of course, there's still the very real possibility we're being led on here. Still, I'm taking the risk and treating this as a serious chan

https://www.osnews.com/story/139116/fedora-change-proposal-suggests-switching-the-main-fedora-workstation-release-to-kde-plasma/

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

https://www.osnews.com/story/138751/fedora-workstation-41-to-no-longer-install-gnome-x-org-session-by-default/

Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops

We are happy to announce the creation of a new family of Fedora Linux spins: Fedora Atomic Desktops! As Silverblue has grown in popularity, we’ve seen more of our mainline Fedora Linux spins make the jump to offer a version that implements rpm-ostree. It’s reached the point where it can be hard to talk about all of them at the same time. Therefore we’ve introduced

https://www.osnews.com/story/138563/introducing-fedora-atomic-desktops/

Fedora ponders merging /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

The split between /bin and /sbin is not useful, and also unused. The original split was to have "important" binaries statically linked in /sbin which could then be used for emergency and rescue operations. Obviously, we don't do static linking anymore. Later, the split was repurposed to isolate "important" binaries that would only be used by th

https://www.osnews.com/story/138129/fedora-ponders-merging-usr-bin-and-usr-sbin/

Fedora Linux 39 released

Fedora Workstation now features GNOME 45, which brings better performance and many usability enhancements, including a new workspace switcher and a much-improved image viewer.

If you’re looking for a different desktop experience, our Budgie Special Interest Group has created Fedora Onyx, a Budgie-based “Atomic” desktop in the spirit of Fedora Silverblue. 

Of course, that’s not

https://www.osnews.com/story/137767/fedora-linux-39-released/

Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix

You’ve all been waiting for it, many of you have guessed, and now, as announced at Flock To Fedora, it’s time to make it official:

The new Asahi Linux flagship distribution will be Fedora Asahi Remix!

We’re confident that this new flagship will get us much closer to our goal of a polished Linux experience on Apple Silicon, and we hope you wi

https://www.osnews.com/story/136579/our-new-flagship-distro-fedora-asahi-remix/

Since most of my feed talks about #fedora , let me introduce you to something I did back in 2005, where Fedora didn't have any version that you can run directly from a CD ...

Introducing #Fedora #live an idea that I worked hard to accomplish using #linux live script, it was built using Fedora Core 3 ..

I think at that time it was the second live version that was ever produced by the community

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-core3-live-cd-%5Bbeta%5D-355560/

Red Hat stops packaging LibreOffice as RPM for RHEL and Fedora, suggests Flatpak instead

The tradeoff is that we are pivoting away from work we had been doing on desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHEL version. This also limits our ability to maintain it in future versions of Fedora.We wi

https://www.osnews.com/story/136209/red-hat-stops-packaging-libreoffice-as-rpm-for-rhel-and-fedora-suggests-flatpak-instead/

Ubuntu 23.04, Fedora 38 released

Two major Linux distributions released major new versions this week. First, Ubuntu:

There’s a big user experience uplift courtesy of GNOME 44 and enhancements, and a brand new Ubuntu installer helps improves the onboarding experience.Foundationally, Ubuntu 23.04 runs on the latest Linux kernel 6.2 release, ships Mesa 23.0 graphics drivers (with in-distro acc

https://www.osnews.com/story/136045/ubuntu-23-04-fedora-38-released/

#Fedora 38 Will Offer Unfiltered #Flathub Access Out of the Box

#Linux #Foss #opensource #Linuxnews #news #technology #fedoracore #updates

Source

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-38-will-offer-unfiltered-flathub-access-out-of-the-box/

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.Unified Kernel Images have been championed by the systemd folks for better securing and trusting Linux distributions. Unified kernel

https://www.osnews.com/story/135673/fedora-38-plots-path-to-unified-kernel-support/