Fedora struggles bringing its RISC-V variant online due to slow build times
Red Hat developer Marcin Juszkiewicz is working on the RISC-V port of Fedora Linux, and after a few months of working on it, published a blog post about just how incredibly slow RISC-V seems to be. This is a real problem, as in Fedora, build results are only released once all archite
Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea
IBM owns Red Hat which in turn runs Fedora, the popular desktop Linux distribution. Sadly, shit rolls downhill, so we're starting to see some worrying signs that Fedora is going to be used a means to push "AI". Case in point, this article in the Fedora Magazine:
Generative AI systems are cha
Fedora’s “AI” policy process highlights rift between IBM/Red Hat and Fedora
A lot of open source projects are struggling what to do with the "AI" bubble, and Fedora is no different. This whole past year, the project's been struggling to formulate any official policies on the use of "AI", and LWN.net's Joe Brockmeier has just done an amazing job summarisin
Fedora needs to embrace Flathub, and here’s how that could be done
Earlier this year, we talked about a peculiar oddity concerning Flatpaks and Fedora: unlike just about any other distribution, Fedora maintains its own Flatpak repository, while everyone else just defaults to Flathub. While there's a few technical differences between Fedora Flatpaks and Flathub Flatpa
Building your own Atomic (bootc) Desktop
Bootc and associated tools provide the basis for building a personalised desktop. This article will describe the process to build your own custom installation.
↫ Daniel Mendizabal at Fedora Magazine
The fact that atomic distributions make it relatively easy to create custom "distributions" is s really interesting bonus quality of these types of Linux
https://www.osnews.com/story/142282/building-your-own-atomic-bootc-desktop/
Fedora change proposal would remove the X11 GNOME session from Fedora 43
I'm sure this won't make anybody mad, and we can all have a reasonable discussion about this. A change proposal for Fedora suggests Fedora should drop the X11 GNOME session from Fedora 43, moving GNOME's target of removing X11 in GNOME 50 to the Fedora release carrying GNOME 49. Fedora 43
Blue95 Topanga released with Paint and Plus! clones
Only a few weeks ago we talked about Blue95, a Fedora-based distribution focused on bringing the Windows 95 look to the Linux world by integrating a set of existing Windows 95 Xfce themes. Since Fedora 42 has just been released, the Blue95 project also pushed out a new release, called Blue95 Topanga. It brings with it all the impro
https://www.osnews.com/story/142161/blue95-topanga-released-with-paint-and-plus-clones/
Fedora 42 released
Fedora 42 has been released, bringing with it a major policy change: the Fedora KDE version now has the same status as the GNOME version. This means that Fedora KDE will be getting the same promotion, website space, and potential blocker status as the GNOME version. For now, the naming is a bit weird - Fedora Workstation for GNOME, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop for KDE - but they intend to fix this
Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
The effort to ensure that open-source software is reproducible has been gathering steam over the years, and gaining traction with major Linux distributions. Debian, for example, has been working toward reproducible builds for more than a decade; it can now produce official live CDs of the current stable release that are reproducible.
https://www.osnews.com/story/142113/fedora-change-aims-for-99-package-reproducibility/
Blue95: Fedora Atomic Xfce converted to a Windows 95 desktop
Blue95 is a modern and lightweight desktop experience that is reminiscent of a bygone era of computing. Based on Fedora Atomic Xfce with the Chicago95 theme.
↫ Blue95 GitHub page
Exactly as it says on the tin. This is by far the easiest way to get the excellent Chigaco95 theme for Xfce set up and working in a p
https://www.osnews.com/story/142021/blue95-fedora-atomic-xfce-converted-to-a-windows-95-desktop/
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