New in Fedora: Running x86 programs on ARM systems
The newly released Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 42 introduces out-of-box support for running x86 and x86-64 programs on ARM systems. This is accomplished by leveraging the emulation stack originally developed for Fedora Asahi Remix. This work is now integ...
What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 42
Fedora 42 has been released! 🎉 So let’s see what arrives with the new releases for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic and Budgie Atomic). New COSMIC Atomic variant The new COSMIC desktop has been packaged for Fed...
Fedora Asahi Remix 42 is now available
We are happy to announce the general availability of Fedora Asahi Remix 42. This release brings the newly released Fedora Linux 42 to Apple Silicon Macs, following our Beta release last month. Fedora Asahi Remix is developed in close collaboration wi...
What’s new in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 42
Fedora Linux provides a wide variety of users with leading edge open source technology in a community developed and maintained operating system. Fedora KDE releases combine the reliable and trusted Fedora Linux base with the KDE Plasma desktop environm...
What’s New in Fedora Workstation 42
Fedora Linux 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything! It’s also the latest release of one of the leading providers of free, open source software, The Fedora Project. We’ve selected a few notable changes in the newest version of Fedora...
The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is.
Seventy-five thousand generations ago, our ancestors set a vast computer in motion, asking it to produce the ultimate Linux distribution… No, wait. It wasn’t quite that long ago. That was a different thing. But in both, the answer to life, the univ...
exwm: Emacs X Windows Manager
EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB. ↫ exwm GitHub page It supports both tiling and stacking windows, dynamic workspaces, RandR, a system tray, and a lot more. XELB stands for X prot...
Google’s bold step toward hybrid AI integration
News stories about cloud services and artificial intelligence are generally predictable. Another generative AI model, another upgraded cloud feature, another boast about “leading the market in innovation.” That’s all well and good, but Google’...
Freedom Means Knowing What’s Installed
The Upgrade to Freedom campaign exists to remind users that better, community-driven operating systems to Microsoft Windows do exist and that there are alternatives that don’t compromise transparency, security or user trust. As headlines highlight Wi...
Why is there a “small house” in IBM’s Code Page 437?
There’s a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM’s infamous character set Code Page 437. “Small house”—that’s the official IBM name given to the glyph at code position 0x7F, where a control character for “Delete” (DEL) should logicall...
Microsoft .NET Aspire adds resource graph, publishers
Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 9.2, a new version of the company’s cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications that features dashboard enhancements, including a resource graph, and publishers, new tools that help developers write cod...
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...
“I bought a Mac”
Yep. I regret to inform you all that, as of January 2025, I am a Mac user: I bought a Mac. I have betrayed the penguin. So, how did such an icon of early 2000s Apple fall into my grubby hands? Well, it all started with the Wii U. I’m not joking. ↫ ...
WordCamp Europe 2025: Sali, Basel!
WordCamp Europe 2025 will be held in gorgeous Basel, Switzerland, from June 5 to 7. It will bring together open source enthusiasts, developers, and WordPress professionals from across the region—and the world! This year’s event offers fresh perspec...
The subjective charms of Objective-C
To argue that Objective-C resembles a metaphysically divine language, or even a good language, is like saying Shakespeare is best appreciated in pig latin. Objective-C is, at best, polarizing. Ridiculed for its unrelenting verbosity and peculiar square...
Ubuntu 25.10 is Officially Named ‘Questing Quokka’
Drum roll your desks to help build some suspense because the Ubuntu 25.10 codename has been confirmed as …’Questing Quokka’. —Oh wait; I put in the headline so you already knew! As expected, the new Ubuntu codename keeps to convention, followin...
