Happy birthday to the Linux kernel! Big thank you to Linus Torvalds for starting this journey, but also thanks to the entire Linux community that has helped to make open source operating systems so successful. ❤️ 🥳 🎂
20 years ago on November 6, 2003, Fedora Linux, originating as "Fedora Core," began in 2003.
Originally referred to as "Fedora Core," Fedora Linux forked from Red Hat Linux in 2003. This move came as Red Hat Linux was phased out, enabling Red Hat to focus on its paid server version, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Fedora Linux became a community distribution, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux continued as the official Red Hat-supported distribution.
SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
TIL that DNF has a --comment option that lets you attach a comment to any transaction you make. Want to remember why the heck you installed that random bundle of development packages? Add a comment and next time you can just dnf history list | grep cairo-gobject-devel and see. Neat!
For once, I’ll review a new #Fedora release, so I gave a look at what’s new in Fedora 39, but also at their sort of official laptop: the Fedora @slimbook.
Thanks to @slimbook for working with the Fedora Project on this. Our contributors have worked on testing and Slimbook is looking to launch a Fedora laptop in the near future. :D
Someone please tell me screen reader support isn’t broken on the major Linux distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu that ship Wayland as default.
(I can’t get the modifier key for Orca to work under the latest Fedora Silverblue and, according to the linked issue, it’s because… it just doesn’t work under Wayland? That can’t be right, right? It would mean the major Linux distributions are inaccessible.)
Are you making a video or a podcast about Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea, Onyx, IoT or CoreOS ? Feel free to reach out on the Fedora discussion forum! We can help you figure out issues or answer questions you may have with those "new" variants.
If you prefer, you can also reach out directly to me. You might also want to reach out to @jorge (Universal Blue) or @sfalken (openSUSE MicroOS, Aeon, Kalpa).
KDE Plasma 6 is available in the next version of Fedora Kinoite today!
Warning! This is a pre-beta Fedora release that may have bugs. Feedback welcomed!
To try it, you can install Fedora Kinoite 39 and rebase to Fedora 40 on the command line or directly install it using the Kinoite dvd-ostree ISO from: https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/nightlies.html
Hardware security keys are a form of multi-factor authentication for logging into important accounts. If you were thinking about getting a one, it's good to know Fedora supports them.
Alrighty, we got a few neat things to share today.
First, welcome @ultramarine to the Fediverse! They are a Fedora-based distro similar to Nobara. They aim to be an (even more) 'just works' type of distro, so check them out and give them a follow! (1/3)
PSA: Fedora Linux 38 will reach end of life on May 21, next Tuesday.
Time to start upgrading. Fedora 39 will be supported for up to one month after the release of Fedora 41 (~6 months). Fedora 40 will be supported until a month after Fedora 42 (~12 months).
SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment (www.suse.com)
SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.