Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If you want to update or rebase to Fedora Linux 40 on your Fedora Silverblue system, this article tells you how. It not only shows you what to do, but also how to revert things if something unforeseen happens. Update your existing system Prior to actually doing the rebase to Fedora Linux 40, you should apply any pending updates. Enter t ..read more

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 thri ..read more

The response from the Fedora community to the Fedora Slimbook 16” and 14” has been great! More and more people are noticing the quality of these laptops. We’ve even had a demo unit at events like FOSDEM and SCaLE for community members to play with. To build on that excitement, Slimbook and the Fedora Project are announcing Slimbook Fedora 2! Slimbook Fedora 2 The Slimbook Fedora 2 comes in the 14” and 16” models and brings with it fantastic new options. Silver is popular, but how about a smooth black Magnesium chassis? For those who need it, you now have the option of a US ANSI keyboard layou ..read more

Fedora Linux is a community developed and maintained operating system. Fedora KDE is one of our adaptations of Fedora Linux for your laptop or desktop. With this milestone release of Fedora KDE 40, we hope that you’ll be interested in trying an OS that belongs to you from start to finish, from install to first shut down, from UI customizations to major changes under the hood! KDE Plasma 6 The all-encompassing change in Fedora KDE 40 is the introduction of KDE Plasma 6. It’s the first major release of the Plasma desktop environment in nine years! Additionally, Fedora KDE is one of the first maj ..read more

Fedora Workstation, the flagship open source Linux desktop OS from the Fedora Project, has reached a new milestone with the release of Fedora Workstation 40. This release has been made possible due to the contributions of our global community, including your contributions! Fedora Workstation 40 comes packed with new features and performance enhancements that promise a smoother and more responsive computing experience. Read on to learn about the latest features and improvements in the sections below. You can download Fedora Workstation 40 from the Fedora Workstation webpage, or upgrade your exi ..read more

In this article you will see how we are using Accessibility as an automation tool to test desktop applications just like a real user would using keyboard key presses and mouse clicks. Although this topic and all of its parts can be talked about for hours to exhaust everything, I will attempt to describe how we are dealing with automation testing in a more digestible form. For those interested there is a link to a full technical solution at the end of this post, with all of our tools and how to use them. We also provide our full GNOME Terminal testing suite for anyone to try. Let us start wit t ..read more

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started. There are two upcoming test days in the next week covering two topics: Mon 8 April , is to test the Fedora 40 Upgrade. Tuesday 9 April , is to test the Intel Open CL. Upgrade test day As we come closer to Fedora Linux 40 release dates, it’s time to test upgrades. This release has a lot of changes and it be ..read more

This article introduces projects available in Flathub with installation instructions. Flathub is the place to get and distribute apps for all of Linux. It is powered by Flatpak, allowing Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distribution. Please read “Getting started with Flatpak“. In order to enable flathub as your flatpak provider, use the instructions on the flatpak site. These apps are classified into four categories: Productivity Games Creativity Miscellaneous Norka In the Productivity section we have Norka. Norka is a distraction free writing app, that allows you to fo ..read more

The Fedora Project was made aware of CVE-2024-3094 on Friday, March 29th related to the xz tools and libraries. At this time, Fedora Rawhide users are likely to have received the tainted package and Fedora Linux 40 Beta users may have received the package if they opted into updating from testing repositories. Fedora Linux 40 Beta users only using stable repositories are NOT impacted. Fedora Linux 39 and 38 users are also NOT impacted. PLEASE IMMEDIATELY STOP USAGE FEDORA RAWHIDE for work or personal activity. Fedora Rawhide will be reverted to xz-5.4.x shortly, and once that is done, Fedora Ra ..read more

You may know the Testing Farm from the article written by David Kornel and Jakub Stejskal. That article highlighted the primary advantages of this testing system. You should review the earlier article, as this article will not go through the basics of the Testing Farm usage. It will only delve into the reasons for utilizing your custom images and explore potential automation methods with Hashicorp Packer. AWS images The Testing Farm automatically deploys Amazon Web Services (AWS) machines using a default set of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) available to users. This curated subset includes popul ..read more