I kept hearing about Fedora… so I decided to dig deeper.😀

What I found challenged a few assumptions I had about Linux and open source.

I broke it all down in a short, easy-to-read blog post—perfect if you're exploring tech or just getting started.

📖 Read it here: https://dev.to/linsmed/fedora-community-and-the-badges-revamp-my-experience-3p05

Curious to hear your thoughts after you read it.
#linux #opensource #fedora #outreachy

today in #fedora qa:
* ran qa team and blocker review meetings - https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/2026-03-30-15-00-utc-fedora-quality-meeting/184855/4 , https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/2026-03-30-16-00-utc-fedora-44-blocker-review-meeting/184854/2
* more bug filing on keyboard layout stuff, particularly KDE live installs - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2453216 , https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2453260 , https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2453237
* bodged #openqa silverblue build on f42 - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/ca779bc
* forced f44 nss / firefox updates stable ahead of the freeze - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-d3c886bccb#comment-4602206
* reported perl update missing dep rebuilds - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-657be4c386#comment-4602014

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Dylan "I read the law and I'm here to implement it" M. Tylor gets up in the morning and decides to write age verification code that he himself calls "hilariously pointless and ineffective", within a week strikes 4 repos off his list, and i bet the Linux Kernel is going to be next (I'm joking... mostly)

It's worth noting that the first people who approved the PR on systemd repo are 2 big tech employees - Mircoslop and Redhat/IBM (why I'm i not surprised!!), someone then opened a revert PR, Lennart Poettering (systemd creator) closed it.. thus blocking the removal

And this is why you now have Liberated Systemd, a fork of systemd without Age verification.. which IS 'hilariously pointless and ineffective' at saving children

when engineers starts reading the law like a specification, this is what you get.. useful idiots.

#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec

"For developers and curious musicians alike, JSFX provides a simple and immediate entry point into creating real-time audio effects on Fedora Linux."

➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/jsfx-on-fedora-linux-an-ultra-fast-audio-prototyping-engine/

#JSFX #Fedora #Music #Linux #OpenSource

Just completed my first Outreachy 2026 task setting up RamaLama

Here's what I did:
- Installed RamaLama 0.18.0 on macOS
- Pulled models using ollama:// and huggingface:// transports
- Tested Fedora-specific questions
Both models got the answers wrong which is exactly why RAG exists!

RamaLama makes running AI models "boring" in the best way possible.
One command and you're up and running.

Full documentation here
https://github.com/ChinniSree/outreachy-ramalama

#Outreachy #Fedora #RamaLama #OpenSource #AI

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116307429187383416

I'm not worried about the surveillance laws as much as I'm worried about the "bUt wE cAn mAKe iT pRivAte" camp

#ageverification #authoritarianism #SaveTheChildren #thinkofthechildren #epstein #surveillance #bigtech #government #privacy #anonymity #humanrights #FreeSoftware #freespeech #ubuntu #linux #fedora #arch #archlinux #agelesslinux #artix #whonix #tails #systemd #opensource #openknowledge #openaccess #cyberlaw #infosec

OK, there's a new edition of This Week In Fedora! (well, rather *last* week in Fedora)
Get it while it's hot: https://abompard.fedorapeople.org/twif/

#Fedora #ThisWeekInFedora #TWIF