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Fedora Linux already ships an iotop-c package for this C alternative the the common iotop program for reporting I/O metrics under Linux, but with the upcoming Fedora 40 release it's looking at having iotop-c replace the original iotop.

This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on a large number of change proposals for the Fedora 40 release due out in April.

Fedora 40 is looking at shipping the AMD ROCm 6.x GPU compute stack to offer 'end-to-end open-source GPU acceleration' with ease for this Red Hat funded Linux distribution.

While on Fedora and other Linux distributions it can be as easy as running 'pip3 install torch' or similar for deploying the PyTorch machine learning framework, Fedora 40 is looking at packaging PyTorch on its own for enhancing the Fedora Linux user experience.

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee 'FESCo' has signed off on two separate change proposals for further enhancing the system security with the in-development Fedora 40 Linux to be released in April.

In addition to Ubuntu exploring the possibility of x86_64-v3 builds/packages, a proposal has been raised for Fedora Linux with its current Fedora 40 cycle to provide the ability to offer optimized x86_64 (AMD64) binaries based upon the CPU's x86_64 micro-architecture feature level.

One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora 40 is to unify their /usr/bin and /usr/sbin locations.

Among the newly-proposed features for Fedora 40 is enabling WiFi MAC address randomization by default to yield better user privacy.

Fedora 40 is planning to provide more hardened system security by leveraging some high level security features provided by systemd.

In addition to Fedora 40 applying systemd hardening settings to bolster system security, another security enhancement now approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is on having the linker error out on encountering possible security issues.