Category: Fedora Linux
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Fedora Linux 41 Public Beta Rolls Out: Featuring Linux Kernel 6.11 and GNOME 47
The Fedora Project today announced the release of the Fedora Linux 41 beta, inviting the public to test and provide feedback on pre-release features. This beta includes the most recent Linux 6.11 kernel and introduces the GNOME 47 desktop environment in its main Fedora Workstation version. This edition is exclusively based on Wayland and has…
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Critical Security Flaw Alert for Fedora Linux 40/41 and Rawhide Users by Red Hat
Today, Red Hat has issued an urgent security alert for Fedora Linux 40, Fedora Linux 41, and Fedora Rawhide users concerning a security flaw (CVE-2024-3094) found within the XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 packages. This flaw could potentially allow unauthorized remote access via SSH. It appears that the upstream tarballs of the XZ Utils 5.6.0…
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Possible Removal of XOrg Session in Fedora 41 Workstation: A Fedora Project Update
The Fedora Project is contemplating eliminating the XOrg (X11) session as a default from the Fedora Linux 41 release, scheduled for later this year, in its primary Fedora Linux Workstation edition that features the GNOME desktop. Having decided to exclude the XOrg session for Fedora’s KDE Spin in the forthcoming Fedora Linux 40 release, which…
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Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops: The Latest Immutable Spins from Fedora Project
The Fedora Project announced today a new family of Fedora Linux spins called Fedora Atomic Desktops, which serves as an umbrella for all the current and future Fedora Linux spins that offer an immutable file system, based on rpm-ostree. Announced nearly ten years ago, Project Atomic consists of a set of packages from an OS…