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Fedora Linux 45 is almost here! Developers, packagers, and quality assurance engineers are hard at work putting the remaining polish on Fedora 45, which means it’s time for our Global Virtual Release Party! It is almost time to celebrate! If all goes according to plan, we will celebrate Fedora 45 just after its actual final […]
The Podman and Fedora Quality teams are organizing a test week from Monday, October 12, through Sunday, October 18, 2026. We want your help testing conmon v3, the Rust-based container monitor used with Podman. If you use Podman, try the same containers and commands with conmon v3 and report any differences. Why we’re testing conmon […]
Navidrome is an open-source music server that lets you stream your personal audio collection anywhere. It gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It’s like your personal Spotify! In this guide, we will explore how to get Navidrome up and running securely using Podman on Fedora Linux. […]
The Anaconda installer in Fedora 45 will introduce a new option for storage configuration: Stratis, a modern solution for local storage management. Stratis isn’t a completely new technology, it uses existing tools and technologies like device mapper, LUKS, and XFS and integrates them into an easy to use package. The idea is to provide modern […]
The Fedora CoreOS and QA teams are gearing up for Fedora 45, and we need your help! We are organizing a Fedora CoreOS Test Week starting on September 21, 2026. This event is a great opportunity for the community to test Fedora CoreOS (FCOS) based on Fedora 45 content before it officially reaches the testing […]
We are happy to announce the availability of Fedora Linux Asahi Remix 45 Beta. This pre-release will bring the freshly announced Fedora Linux 45 Beta to Apple Silicon Macs. We expect to announce general availability of Fedora Linux Asahi Remix 45 in about a month. This will coincide with the overall Fedora Linux 45 release. […]
Fedora Linux 45 Beta is here! On Tuesday, 15 September 2026 you can download or upgrade your systems from your usual spots to start enjoying what F45 has to offer early. How to get the beta release You can download F45 Beta, or our pre-release edition versions, from any of the following places: You can […]
Intro After months of good old fashioned struggle with Google Drive and YouTube Studio, we were finally able to prepare the video sessions from the 2025 and 2026 Flock To Fedora event livestreams. These are now released to our YouTube and PeerTube communities. This article describes the details of the entire process that got us from the raw footage to the […]
Recently, Framework announced their new Laptop 12, which optionally comes with the KDE Edition of Fedora Linux pre-installed. Framework’s modular hardware has long captured the hearts of tinkerers, and many Framework users were already running Fedora Linux. Giving community members the option to unbox a hardware-validated, pre-installed Fedora KDE system is the culmination of months […]
A few short how-to's with screenshots, showing easy ways to boot up off a USB live ISO and return back to previous points in time with BTRFS
After years of technical research and foundational work, the Fedora Badges application service has been rebuilt from the ground up, and it is heading to production. Whether you have been collecting badges for years or you are brand new to the Fedora Project community, here is what is waiting for you there. Completely modernized user interface The archaic server rendered pages are now gone. The Fedora Badges application service […]
Fedora 45 has several system-level changes that need testing on real hardware. The first test day up is GNOME 51, starting on 17 August, with more events planned for RPM 6.1, installation media and others. You can participate with a VM for most tests; some hardware-specific testing is more useful on a real machine. Details […]
You wake up one morning to find your home server unresponsive, after some investigation you discover a failed NVMe drive taking your self-hosted services and data with it. Perhaps you’re a system administrator and a workstation’s SSD has been silently accumulating errors for months, and now a user is reporting corrupted files. Drive failures are […]
Running Large Language Models (LLMs) locally has become increasingly popular for development, privacy, and offline testing. Ollama makes this incredibly straightforward, allowing you to run models like Llama 3 or Mistral directly on your machine. By leveraging Podman on Fedora Linux, you can isolate Ollama inside a container. This approach keeps your host system clean […]
Flock 2026 was my first Fedora conference, and it won’t be my last. I came home with new ideas, new friendships, and even a new project to work on for next year. Appreciation I want to start by appreciating the Flock organizers and volunteers. Putting together an event like this takes a lot of quiet, […]
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