Fedora
Fedora creates an innovative, free, and open source platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enables software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users.
Features
Properties
- Customizable
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Out Of The Box
- Linux-based
- Wayland Support
- Desktop Environment
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Support for BTRFS
- Dark Mode
- Unix-like
- Multiple languages
- Separated workspaces
- No registration required
- Works Offline
- Rolling Release
- Portable
- Key rebinding
KDE Plasma integration
Tags
- FOSS
- RedHat Based
- Developer Tools
- Workstation
- automated-crash-reporting
- gnome-desktop-environment
- multiple-desktop-environments
- rpm-package-manager
Fedora News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Qubes OS
Qubes OS 4.3.0 released with Fedora 41, Xen 4.19, updated templatesQubes OS 4.3.0 is now available, featuring a Dom0 upgrade to Fedora 41 and Xen 4.19. The update enf...
- Fla published news article about Proton VPN
Proton VPN CLI launches for Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora usersThe official Proton VPN command-line interface is now available for users on Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, ...
- Fla published news article about Proton VPN
Proton VPN CLI for Linux now available on Ubuntu, Debian, and FedoraProton VPN has launched a command-line interface for Linux, now available on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fe...
Recent activities
- victorffrock liked Fedora
- kelsonv reviewed Fedora
Still my favorite Linux for desktop use (followed by Debian as a close second), but every once in a while I'm reminded that IBM (via Red Hat) still has an out-sized influence on it.
It's a good balance between a fast-changing, rolling distribution like Arch and a slower, stability-focused distribution like Debian. You regularly get new drivers and updated apps, with stable checkpoints.
Easy to install and set up, available for lots of processor architectures, and has a wide variety of...
POX added Fedora as alternative to MicroPythonOS
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What is Fedora?
The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux , open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives. The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in building Fedora and will invite and encourage more outside participation than in past releases. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community.
Fedora information
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Fedora prides itself in being an early adopter of new technologies and promoting open-source software.
Pros: Easy to install Easy to use package manager Well integrated with GNOME One of the first to include new updates in the Linux community
Cons: Adding software that isn't open-source requires an extra step Not Debian, so proprietary software that is only compatible with Ubuntu and Debian won't work
Debian/Ubuntu software that comes as a .deb file can often be made to work on other distros. Here's how. For a package called example.deb, open the terminal, go to the folder where example.deb is located and type:
ar x example.deb
A handful of files and folders will appear in that folder. One of them is likely called something like data.tar.gz. This is a compressed file which you can decompress using engrampa or whatever is your favourite Linux program for this.
In the decompressed version of that folder you'll find a bunch of stuff, and amongst it somewhere the binary (executable) program you want to run. Possibly in a subfolder called 'bin'. Double click that to start the program.
I did not know that, thanks!
Users should get Fedora 36 beta version in order to have last glibc 2.35.
Still my favorite Linux for desktop use (followed by Debian as a close second), but every once in a while I'm reminded that IBM (via Red Hat) still has an out-sized influence on it.
It's a good balance between a fast-changing, rolling distribution like Arch and a slower, stability-focused distribution like Debian. You regularly get new drivers and updated apps, with stable checkpoints.
Easy to install and set up, available for lots of processor architectures, and has a wide variety of software in its official repositories. Steam runs well for gaming. Major upgrades tend to be reliable in my experience.
I am apprehensive about the new corporate-pushed policy to allow LLM-generated code. Depending on how that shakes out, I may end up switching my main box to Debian (or doing a new round of distro-hopping) and revising this.
Works great on my school tablet (surface 2 go pro). Even the touch!!! Its not as fast as Mint , but definitely faster than windows. I had to switch from mint because of weird bugs and I don't regret it.
Works great on my school tablet (surface 2 go pro). Even the touch!!! Its not as fast as Mint , but definitely faster than windows. I had to switch from mint because of weird bugs and I don't regret it.
Works great on my school tablet (surface 2 go pro). Even the touch!!! Its not as fast as Mint , but definitely faster than windows. I had to switch from mint because of weird bugs and I don't regret it.
My laptop is an Asus Tuf A14 (Ryzen 9 IA 370, RTX 4060). To date, no Ubuntu or Debian-derived distribution has worked for me. The SOLUTION: Install Fedora 42 (gnome). With Fedora, it doesn't heat up, it doesn't crash, it recognizes the integrated and discrete graphics without installing anything additional. Everything is perfect.