We're excited to hear about the community updates that will be presented at the Fedora 40 Release Party. 😬 We'll learn about the Mentored Projects initiative, the git forge investigation, EPEL 10, and Week of Diversity!
@Corb_The_Lesser It is technically possible to have a live mode on Fedora Atomic Desktops, but that has not been implemented. It's an area where the Fedora Atomic Desktops SIGs could use contributions, but otherwise it's just not something they've been able to get around to.
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we want to recognize the work being done on accessibility by @matt as part of the @gnome Foundation. He is the lead for @accesskit and is currently working on Newton, a Wayland-oriented solution for assistive technologies that can modernize accessibility on the Linux desktop!
The Fedora Accessibility Working Group is looking to work closer with upstream as we aim to improve accessibility on Fedora. If you are interested in joining, participating, collaborating, or sharing your experience, please reach out with the Fedora DEI tag on our forum.
As we make our five (now four) year plan more concrete, we want to come back to the high level goal and measures that help us to understand what we are doing, why, and if we are being effective.
TL;DR - We’re going to double the number of contributors who are active every week.
On top of the great work that @AsahiLinux and the Fedora Asahi SIG do, they've also worked to line up releases with the rest of Fedora, so thank you for that!
This release brings:
OpenGL 4.6
High quality audio out of the box
Plasma, Gnome, Server, and Minimal variants available
@itsoulos@AsahiLinux There are two layers, the differences that Asahi brings with this update and then that new non-DE specific things that are a part of Fedora 40 in general. This article has some of the Fedora Asahi things and the general announcement has the details for what's new in Fedora 40.
@moashy_mango BlueBuild may be able to help with that, but Fedora MATE could also be an option. If you have more specific feedback on the state of accessibility in Fedora, please let us know.
Anyone from #fedora#atomic images are they all long term supported if not which one is considered LTS? I don't know much about Fedora or its ecosystem. Been mostly debian/ubuntu/arch linux over the decades.
@Corb_The_Lesser@talesofaprinny Nailed it. In this example, if you're on Fedora 40 you know that you have one month after the release of Fedora 42 to upgrade and stay on a supported version. That's why 13 months to give a little extra time.
What some people do is hang back one major release. So if you start with Fedora 40, skip Fedora 41 and only upgrade to F41 once F42 release. That way you're still getting new stuff to you every 6 months, but it's 6 months after it's been out in the wild.
@Corb_The_Lesser@talesofaprinny It may be a little more involved to specifically choose one version to upgrade to vs another, and unfortunately outside the scope of what I as the person writing this post knows.
Bluefin from @UniversalBlue manages this for users so that you will always be one version behind the latest major release by design. Might be the easiest way to run your system at that pace.
@fedora Fedora 40 is way too unstable I'm locked out of my workstation, disk encryption does not recognize my password (I know it's the right one). Looking a forums it seems that I'm not the only one. You guys have a workaround for this ?
@zebulon If a solution doesn't come up in the forum and there isn't a bug report for this already, please file one with more information at the link below. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
(I'm not able to find a bug report currently)
You could also try presenting your issue specifically and see what contributors provide.