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Oh, wow. This feels like a big number! I'm proud to announce the 40th release of Fedora Linux, a community-built and community-maintained operating system that belongs to all of us. I'm also happy to note that we're back on track with an on-time release. Thank you to all Fedora contributors who made that possible, and who have, yet again, made this our best one ever.

This is also a personally exciting number for me, because this marks the 20th release for which I've served as Fedora Project Leader. We've gone through a lot in this last decade, and I'm incredibly happy to see our community thrive and grow. In addition to many long-familiar names and faces, it's exciting to see a new generation with new energy and ideas. In some cases, this is literally a new generation, as many of you have grown up with Fedora. But at whatever age, I'm proud we've built such a welcoming and friendly community, and that we continue to work at improving our inclusiveness, diversity, and accessibility.

But anyway! Enough of that. Time to see what we've got for you in Fedora Linux 40! If you have a system already, Upgrading Fedora to a New Release is easy. If you're new, or just curious, head to Get Fedora for installation options.

Matthew Miller
Matthew is the Fedora Project Leader. You can find him on the Fedora mailing lists or Fedora Chat as "mattdm", or @mattdm@hachyderm.io on Mastodon

Desktop News

Fedora Workstation Edition features the GNOME desktop environment, now updated to version 46. The KDE Spin now includes KDE Plasma 6, and runs with Wayland out of the box.

We're also officially reviving the "Fedora Atomic Desktop" brand for all of our variants which use ostree or image-based provisioning. Our technology isn't really "immutable", so this provides a better grouping. But in short, Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite will remain, while the other desktop  variants will become Fedora Sway Atomic and Fedora Budgie Atomic.

Tools for AI Development

Fedora Linux 40 ships with our first-ever PyTorch package. PyTorch is a popular framework for deep learning, and it can be difficult to reliably install with the right versions of drivers and libraries and so on. The current package only supports running on the CPU, without GPU or NPU acceleration, but this is just the first step. Our aim is to produce a complete stack with PyTorch and other popular tools ready to use on a wide variety of hardware out-of-the-box.

We're also shipping with ROCm 6 — open-source software that provides acceleration support for AMD graphics cards. We plan to have that enabled for PyTorch in a future release.

Updates all around

As usual, we've rebuilt everything in the distribution using updated compilers and libraries (and, of course, those updated tools are ready for developers to use). These updates bring bugfixes, security improvements, and performance gains.

And, of course, hundreds of Fedora packagers and testers have worked to integrate the latest versions of open source software from thousands of upstream projects. Those projects, in turn, are made by an uncountable number of developers and contributors working on marketing, design, documentation, code, quality, translations, communications, events, governance, infrastructure, security, and so much more. Thank you again to everyone who makes Fedora amazing, and to everyone whose work has built this whole universe of free and open source software.

Visit the Fedora website here:

https://fedoraproject.org/

Get the Fedora Slimbook here:

https://fedora.slimbook.com/

Oh, wow. This feels like a big number! I'm proud to announce the 40th release of Fedora Linux, a community-built and community-maintained operating system that belongs to all of us. I'm also happy to note that we're back on track with an on-time release. Thank you to all Fedora contributors who made that possible, and who have, yet again, made this our best one ever.

This is also a personally exciting number for me, because this marks the 20th release for which I've served as Fedora Project Leader. We've gone through a lot in this last decade, and I'm incredibly happy to see our community thrive and grow. In addition to many long-familiar names and faces, it's exciting to see a new generation with new energy and ideas. In some cases, this is literally a new generation, as many of you have grown up with Fedora. But at whatever age, I'm proud we've built such a welcoming and friendly community, and that we continue to work at improving our inclusiveness, diversity, and accessibility.

But anyway! Enough of that. Time to see what we've got for you in Fedora Linux 40! If you have a system already, Upgrading Fedora to a New Release is easy. If you're new, or just curious, head to Get Fedora for installation options.

Matthew Miller
Matthew is the Fedora Project Leader. You can find him on the Fedora mailing lists or Fedora Chat as "mattdm", or @mattdm@hachyderm.io on Mastodon

Desktop News

Fedora Workstation Edition features the GNOME desktop environment, now updated to version 46. The KDE Spin now includes KDE Plasma 6, and runs with Wayland out of the box.

We're also officially reviving the "Fedora Atomic Desktop" brand for all of our variants which use ostree or image-based provisioning. Our technology isn't really "immutable", so this provides a better grouping. But in short, Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite will remain, while the other desktop  variants will become Fedora Sway Atomic and Fedora Budgie Atomic.

Tools for AI Development

Fedora Linux 40 ships with our first-ever PyTorch package. PyTorch is a popular framework for deep learning, and it can be difficult to reliably install with the right versions of drivers and libraries and so on. The current package only supports running on the CPU, without GPU or NPU acceleration, but this is just the first step. Our aim is to produce a complete stack with PyTorch and other popular tools ready to use on a wide variety of hardware out-of-the-box.

We're also shipping with ROCm 6 — open-source software that provides acceleration support for AMD graphics cards. We plan to have that enabled for PyTorch in a future release.

Updates all around

As usual, we've rebuilt everything in the distribution using updated compilers and libraries (and, of course, those updated tools are ready for developers to use). These updates bring bugfixes, security improvements, and performance gains.

And, of course, hundreds of Fedora packagers and testers have worked to integrate the latest versions of open source software from thousands of upstream projects. Those projects, in turn, are made by an uncountable number of developers and contributors working on marketing, design, documentation, code, quality, translations, communications, events, governance, infrastructure, security, and so much more. Thank you again to everyone who makes Fedora amazing, and to everyone whose work has built this whole universe of free and open source software.

Visit the Fedora website here:

https://fedoraproject.org/

Get the Fedora Slimbook here:

https://fedora.slimbook.com/

Oh, wow. This feels like a big number! I'm proud to announce the 40th release of Fedora Linux, a community-built and community-maintained operating system that belongs to all of us. I'm also happy to note that we're back on track with an on-time release. Thank you to all Fedora contributors who made that possible, and who have, yet again, made this our best one ever.

This is also a personally exciting number for me, because this marks the 20th release for which I've served as Fedora Project Leader. We've gone through a lot in this last decade, and I'm incredibly happy to see our community thrive and grow. In addition to many long-familiar names and faces, it's exciting to see a new generation with new energy and ideas. In some cases, this is literally a new generation, as many of you have grown up with Fedora. But at whatever age, I'm proud we've built such a welcoming and friendly community, and that we continue to work at improving our inclusiveness, diversity, and accessibility.

But anyway! Enough of that. Time to see what we've got for you in Fedora Linux 40! If you have a system already, Upgrading Fedora to a New Release is easy. If you're new, or just curious, head to Get Fedora for installation options.

Matthew Miller
Matthew is the Fedora Project Leader. You can find him on the Fedora mailing lists or Fedora Chat as "mattdm", or @mattdm@hachyderm.io on Mastodon

Desktop News

Fedora Workstation Edition features the GNOME desktop environment, now updated to version 46. The KDE Spin now includes KDE Plasma 6, and runs with Wayland out of the box.

We're also officially reviving the "Fedora Atomic Desktop" brand for all of our variants which use ostree or image-based provisioning. Our technology isn't really "immutable", so this provides a better grouping. But in short, Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite will remain, while the other desktop  variants will become Fedora Sway Atomic and Fedora Budgie Atomic.

Tools for AI Development

Fedora Linux 40 ships with our first-ever PyTorch package. PyTorch is a popular framework for deep learning, and it can be difficult to reliably install with the right versions of drivers and libraries and so on. The current package only supports running on the CPU, without GPU or NPU acceleration, but this is just the first step. Our aim is to produce a complete stack with PyTorch and other popular tools ready to use on a wide variety of hardware out-of-the-box.

We're also shipping with ROCm 6 — open-source software that provides acceleration support for AMD graphics cards. We plan to have that enabled for PyTorch in a future release.

Updates all around

As usual, we've rebuilt everything in the distribution using updated compilers and libraries (and, of course, those updated tools are ready for developers to use). These updates bring bugfixes, security improvements, and performance gains.

And, of course, hundreds of Fedora packagers and testers have worked to integrate the latest versions of open source software from thousands of upstream projects. Those projects, in turn, are made by an uncountable number of developers and contributors working on marketing, design, documentation, code, quality, translations, communications, events, governance, infrastructure, security, and so much more. Thank you again to everyone who makes Fedora amazing, and to everyone whose work has built this whole universe of free and open source software.

Visit the Fedora website here:

https://fedoraproject.org/

Get the Fedora Slimbook here:

https://fedora.slimbook.com/

Oh, wow. This feels like a big number! I'm proud to announce the 40th release of Fedora Linux, a community-built and community-maintained operating system that belongs to all of us. I'm also happy to note that we're back on track with an on-time release. Thank you to all Fedora contributors who made that possible, and who have, yet again, made this our best one ever.

This is also a personally exciting number for me, because this marks the 20th release for which I've served as Fedora Project Leader. We've gone through a lot in this last decade, and I'm incredibly happy to see our community thrive and grow. In addition to many long-familiar names and faces, it's exciting to see a new generation with new energy and ideas. In some cases, this is literally a new generation, as many of you have grown up with Fedora. But at whatever age, I'm proud we've built such a welcoming and friendly community, and that we continue to work at improving our inclusiveness, diversity, and accessibility.

But anyway! Enough of that. Time to see what we've got for you in Fedora Linux 40! If you have a system already, Upgrading Fedora to a New Release is easy. If you're new, or just curious, head to Get Fedora for installation options.

Matthew Miller
Matthew is the Fedora Project Leader. You can find him on the Fedora mailing lists or Fedora Chat as "mattdm", or @mattdm@hachyderm.io on Mastodon

Desktop News

Fedora Workstation Edition features the GNOME desktop environment, now updated to version 46. The KDE Spin now includes KDE Plasma 6, and runs with Wayland out of the box.

We're also officially reviving the "Fedora Atomic Desktop" brand for all of our variants which use ostree or image-based provisioning. Our technology isn't really "immutable", so this provides a better grouping. But in short, Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite will remain, while the other desktop  variants will become Fedora Sway Atomic and Fedora Budgie Atomic.

Tools for AI Development

Fedora Linux 40 ships with our first-ever PyTorch package. PyTorch is a popular framework for deep learning, and it can be difficult to reliably install with the right versions of drivers and libraries and so on. The current package only supports running on the CPU, without GPU or NPU acceleration, but this is just the first step. Our aim is to produce a complete stack with PyTorch and other popular tools ready to use on a wide variety of hardware out-of-the-box.

We're also shipping with ROCm 6 — open-source software that provides acceleration support for AMD graphics cards. We plan to have that enabled for PyTorch in a future release.

Updates all around

As usual, we've rebuilt everything in the distribution using updated compilers and libraries (and, of course, those updated tools are ready for developers to use). These updates bring bugfixes, security improvements, and performance gains.

And, of course, hundreds of Fedora packagers and testers have worked to integrate the latest versions of open source software from thousands of upstream projects. Those projects, in turn, are made by an uncountable number of developers and contributors working on marketing, design, documentation, code, quality, translations, communications, events, governance, infrastructure, security, and so much more. Thank you again to everyone who makes Fedora amazing, and to everyone whose work has built this whole universe of free and open source software.

Visit the Fedora website here:

https://fedoraproject.org/

Get the Fedora Slimbook here:

https://fedora.slimbook.com/

Fedora (formerly Fedora Core) is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and owned by Red Hat. Fedora contains software distributed under a free and open-source license and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora has a reputation for focusing on innovation, integrating new technologies early on and working closely with upstream Linux communities.

The Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition is a powerful Fedora-based operating system utilizing the KDE Plasma Desktop as the main user interface.

Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop comes with many pre-selected top quality applications that suit all modern desktop use cases - from online communication like web browsing, instant messaging and electronic mail correspondence, through multimedia and entertainment, to an advanced productivity suite, including office applications and enterprise grade personal information management.

All KDE applications are well integrated, with a similar look and feel and an easy to use interface, accompanied by an outstanding graphical appearance.

Linux Mint is an operating system for desktop and laptop computers. It is designed to work 'out of the box' and comes fully equipped with the apps most people need.

   Manjaro Linux is a fast, user-friendly, desktop-oriented operating system based on Arch Linux. Key features include intuitive installation process, automatic hardware detection, stable rolling-release model, ability to install multiple kernels, special Bash scripts for managing graphics drivers and extensive desktop configurability. Manjaro Linux offers Xfce as the core desktop options, as well as KDE, GNOME and a minimalist Net edition for more advanced users. Community-supported desktop flavours are also available.
For More Information, visit Distrowatch

   Manjaro Linux is a fast, user-friendly, desktop-oriented operating system based on Arch Linux. Key features include intuitive installation process, automatic hardware detection, stable rolling-release model, ability to install multiple kernels, special Bash scripts for managing graphics drivers and extensive desktop configurability. Manjaro Linux offers Xfce as the core desktop options, as well as KDE, GNOME and a minimalist Net edition for more advanced users. Community-supported desktop flavours are also available.
For More Information, visit Distrowatch

We are sick of not receiving updates shortly after buying new phones. Sick of the walled gardens deeply integrated into Android and iOS. That's why we are developing a sustainable, privacy and security focused free software mobile OS that is modeled after traditional Linux distributions. With privilege separation in mind. Let's keep our devices useful and safe until they physically break!

We avoid Android's build system entirely. Instead of building a monolithic system image for each and every device, the whole OS is divided into small packages. These same package binaries can be installed on all devices that share the same CPU architecture. Device specific parts are kept as minimal as possible, ideally there is only one device package. In practice there is often the downstream Linux kernel too, but we are replacing those with Mainline wherever possible. In the spirit of most other Linux distributions, multiple user interfaces from independent projects are packaged for postmarketOS, such as Plasma Mobile, Phosh and Sxmo.

PostmarketOS is based on Alpine Linux, which is so tiny (less than 10 MB in size) that development of pmOS can be done quickly on any Linux distribution. We install Alpine in multiple chroots to cross compile packages, build and flash postmarketOS, run it in a VM with QEMU or interactively port new hardware. All with our lightweight Python program pmbootstrap, without installing anything on the host system. Writing packages is easy, by the way: as long as you know how to write shell scripts, you are good to go. We have continuous integration in place that makes sure everything builds that gets submitted to our packages repository, among other sanity checks.

The above design decisions make it feasible to keep the system up-to-date, for all devices at once! Compared to Android, it makes development more efficient and democratic: you don't need to afford a powerful and expensive PC to rebuild the entire OS. Just build the tiny part that you are interested in modifying.

Speaking of modifying, due to the free software nature of the project, you can change pretty much everything. We don't even require running proprietary Android userspace drivers. In fact all proprietary components (even the WLAN, cellular modem and bluetooth firmware) can be excluded if building your own image with pmbootstrap.

Visit the PostmarketOS website here:

https://postmarketos.org/

Help support the PostmarketOS developers here:

https://opencollective.com/postmarketOS

We are sick of not receiving updates shortly after buying new phones. Sick of the walled gardens deeply integrated into Android and iOS. That's why we are developing a sustainable, privacy and security focused free software mobile OS that is modeled after traditional Linux distributions. With privilege separation in mind. Let's keep our devices useful and safe until they physically break!

We avoid Android's build system entirely. Instead of building a monolithic system image for each and every device, the whole OS is divided into small packages. These same package binaries can be installed on all devices that share the same CPU architecture. Device specific parts are kept as minimal as possible, ideally there is only one device package. In practice there is often the downstream Linux kernel too, but we are replacing those with Mainline wherever possible. In the spirit of most other Linux distributions, multiple user interfaces from independent projects are packaged for postmarketOS, such as Plasma Mobile, Phosh and Sxmo.

PostmarketOS is based on Alpine Linux, which is so tiny (less than 10 MB in size) that development of pmOS can be done quickly on any Linux distribution. We install Alpine in multiple chroots to cross compile packages, build and flash postmarketOS, run it in a VM with QEMU or interactively port new hardware. All with our lightweight Python program pmbootstrap, without installing anything on the host system. Writing packages is easy, by the way: as long as you know how to write shell scripts, you are good to go. We have continuous integration in place that makes sure everything builds that gets submitted to our packages repository, among other sanity checks.

The above design decisions make it feasible to keep the system up-to-date, for all devices at once! Compared to Android, it makes development more efficient and democratic: you don't need to afford a powerful and expensive PC to rebuild the entire OS. Just build the tiny part that you are interested in modifying.

Speaking of modifying, due to the free software nature of the project, you can change pretty much everything. We don't even require running proprietary Android userspace drivers. In fact all proprietary components (even the WLAN, cellular modem and bluetooth firmware) can be excluded if building your own image with pmbootstrap.

Visit the PostmarketOS website here:

https://postmarketos.org/

Help support the PostmarketOS developers here:

https://opencollective.com/postmarketOS