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Fedora 40 has been released! �� So let’s see what comes in this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic and Onyx Atomic). Note: You can also read this post on the Fedora Magazine.

Announcing a new family of Fedora Linux spins: Fedora Atomic. This will simplify how to discuss rpm-ostree and naming of future atomic spins.

Today we "relaunched" ublue-os/bluefin as projectbluefin.io. This is a beta until Spring 2024. Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue by a bunch of cloud-native nerds. We want a reliable desktop experience that runs everything but we're too lazy to maintain anything. So we automated the entire

I have now been playing games only on Linux for a year, and it has been great. With the GPU shortage, I had been waiting for prices to come back to reasonable levels before buying a new GPU. So far, I had always bought NVIDIA GPUs as I was using Windows to run games and the NVIDIA drivers had a better “reputation” than the AMD/Radeon ones.

Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck, and a ready-to-game SteamOS-like for desktop computers, living room home theater PCs, and numerous other handheld PCs. - GitHub - ublue-os/bazzite: Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck, and a ready-to-game SteamOS-like for desktop computers, living room home theater PCs, and numerous other handheld PCs.

In this post, I will detail how to replace sudo (a setuid binary) by using SSH over a local UNIX socket. I am of the opinion that setuid/setgid binaries are a UNIX legacy that should be deprecated. I will explain the security reasons behind that statement in a future post. This is related to the work of the Confined Users SIG in Fedora.

If you have an old iMac from the early 2000s, you can breathe new life into the hardware by turning it into a Steam gaming machine.

Custom Operating System images based on Fedora

OCI container image of OBS Studio that bundles a curated collection of 3rd party plugins - GitHub - ublue-os/obs-studio-portable: OCI container image of OBS Studio that bundles a curated collection of 3rd party plugins

So you want to make a new rpm-ostree desktop variant in Fedora to join Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea and soon Onyx? Here are the steps that you should follow. Note: This checklist may not be fully exhaustive and I’ll likely update it as needed. Feel free to send me suggestions.