tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60014409347409614142026-09-18T19:32:28.324+03:00Tutorials and tips on Fedora Linux, Python programming, and software development. Clear guides, source code, and practical examples by Catalin George Festila.Cătălin George Feștilăhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10800322932529698711noreply@blogger.comBlogger656125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6001440934740961414.post-10930050105669685952026-09-18T19:32:28.324+03:002026-09-18T19:32:28.324+03:00

Before an official Fedora release comes out, a Beta pre-release is made. Beta and Final (GA) are the milestones for a Fedora release. At each milestone, nightly and 'candidate' composes are built and tested to ensure the build finally released as the Beta or final release meets certain requirements.This document describes how this testing is carried out. You can contribute by downloading the

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You ca test Fedora distro linux on the distrosea :

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Linus Torvalds resolved a critical memory corruption bug in the Intel Xe driver for Battlemage G21 by combining traditional kernel debugging with AI-assisted instrumentation. The issue caused black screen failures during boot on systems using the Battlemage G21 GPU, making the bug difficult to reproduce and trace manually. Torvalds began by isolating the problematic code path inside the Xe driver

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Fedora has been highly active this week in the Python security ecosystem, releasing critical updates for Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.13, and 3.14 across multiple Fedora branches. These updates address several high‑impact vulnerabilities, including Denial of Service issues in the HTML parser, XML parsing flaws, tarfile extraction bypasses, and multiple injection vectors affecting different Python modules

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Fedora 45 enters the Beta Freeze stage, marking the transition from active feature development to strict system stabilization in the Fedora release cycle. This phase ensures that Fedora 45 maintains a consistent, predictable, and reproducible state while developers and testers focus on reliability and performance across all supported architectures. The Fedora development workflow begins with

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Darktable 5.6.1 was released on August 27, 2026, with a technical focus on improving stability, memory handling, and GPU compatibility specifically on Fedora and other Linux distributions that adopt cutting‑edge toolchains and graphics stacks. Fedora users benefit from native Wayland support in the official AppImage, allowing Darktable to run directly on GNOME’s Wayland session without relying on

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Distrobox on Fedora is a lightweight, rootless way to run any Linux distribution inside a tightly‑integrated container, powered by Podman. It’s more flexible than Fedora’s native Toolbox because it can pull any OCI image (Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, openSUSE, Alpine, etc.) What Distrobox Does on Fedora Runs any distro inside your terminal using Podman or Docker. Integrates with the host: shared $HOME,

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Fedora Silverblue is an immutable desktop operating system built on top of rpm‑ostree. Instead of traditional package-based upgrades, Silverblue uses atomic deployments, making the system extremely stable, reliable, and easy to roll back. This blog-style guide shows you how to update your system, manage deployments, upgrade to new Fedora versions, and keep Flatpak applications current — all using

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Updates to translations of Fedora Documentation are again available. As announced on March 3rd, the unavailability of translation updates was due to the migration of the translation repositories and necessary tools from Pagure to the Fedora Forge. It took longer than expected but we are pleased to report this undertaking came finally to the end. See the official website.

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System76 has released COSMIC Desktop 1.1, the latest update to its Rust-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS and other Linux distributions. See the official website - system76.

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What Are Immutable Linux Versions? Immutable Linux distributions are operating systems where the core system is read-only and cannot be modified directly by the user. Examples include Fedora Silverblue (GNOME-based) and Fedora Kinoite (KDE Plasma-based) ... The system is built from atomic images, similar to how mobile operating systems update. Applications and

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UEFI Secure Boot keys, used to sign the first stage boot loader, are expiring in June 2026. You can read more on the fedora magazine article.

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The x86/cpu changes have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel. In Linux 7.1 the Intel 486 CPU support was retired and began to see the code removed. This pull request also includes Panther Lake R as the new version of Panther Lake. See the real kernel progress on the git area. The full list of x86/cpu changes for Linux 7.2 can be found on this pull from mingo@kernel.org to torvalds@

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I saw a few days ago that there was a vote, but I didn't vote. I didn't participate nor did I follow what the fedora team was working on. From past experiences I can say that it is a very refined distribution. I use it all the time. It should be emphasized that each Linux distribution has different characteristics and specifications. Good luck. The F44 election cycle has concluded. Below are the

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The Package-URL (PURL) standard privides a "standardized URL-based syntax that uniquely identifies software packages, independent of their ecosystem or distribution channel" This Change aims at making it easier and more reliable to identify which packages contain code from what projects. This allows for more reliable identification of packages affected by security vulnerabilities. Additionally,

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Fedora-Server-Host-Generic: This image uses the standard 6.19 kernel, 6.19.8-200.0.riscv64.fc43.riscv64. This kernel is very close to upstream, and will work on Vision Five 2, Orange Pi RV, Milk-V Mars, and probably other boards. Fedora-Server-Host-Omni: New in Fedora 44! This image uses the Fedora “Omni” kernel, 7.0.11-200.0.riscv64.omni.fc44.riscv64, which aims to work on a wider range of

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HandBrake 1.11.2 has been released with WebM MIME type to the list of supported formats on Linux systems, improve the Core Audio AAC encoder 7.1 channel layout, improve handling of unsupported presets on macOS and Windows systems, and improve queue low space pause behaviour on Windows systems.See the GitHub project.

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Black Box is a native terminal emulator for GNOME that offers superb theming options. With Black Box you can: Set colors schemes and integrate them with the rest of the window Customize font and size Customize keyboard shortcuts Render Sixel escape sequences Fully hide the window headerbar Quickly open links and files by ctrl+clicking file paths and URLs Easily paste file paths by dragging them

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Zert is a pure-Zsh plugin manager built around a simple idea: your plugins should be declared directly in your .zshrc, pinned to exact commits, and reproducible on any machine just like npm does for Node projects. This project can be found on this GitHub repo. Let's see some commands: zert zert # zert manages itself zert use ohmyzsh # enable Oh-My-Zsh

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Today I used Fedora 44 beta 12 server on VirtualBox, and I wanted to test how Python works with Django on this Linux distribution. In the Fedora distribution, I have Python version 3.14.3 and Django version 6.0.4. I created a basic project with multiple pages, CSS, JavaScript, and an admin interface. It seems that Django is functional, and the result is very good for a basic project.:

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The old laptop on which I was running Fedora broke down. That didn't stop me from testing Fedora Server version 44 beta 12 with the Budgie environment in VirtualBox, and I also made a beginner tutorial video that I share on my YouTube channel - Catalin George Festila. See this video:

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