News : Fedora 45 wants PURL Metadata.

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, this metadata might be interesting for generating SBOMs for content included in (container) images.

See this discussion at fedoraproject community.

News : The new RISC-V images of Fedora 44 .

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 RISC-V boards. Some patches in this kernel are still under review upstream. For details on the list of boards the Omni kernel

The RISC-V images of Fedora 44 are now available for container, server, and cloud variants. The Fedora 44 RISC-V material is considered non-official and community-contributed alternate images currently with Fedora Linux.

The Fedora 44 Server images for RISC-V use a Linux 6.19 based kernel close to upstream and have been tested on the Vision Five 2, Orange Pi RV, and Milk-V Mars.

See the discussion on fedoraproject.org.

News : HandBrake 1.11.2 added WebM MIME type to the list of the supported formats.

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.

News : Release v0.15.1 for Black Box .

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 into the window

See the official gitlab repo project.

Fedora 44 : the Zert plugin manager.

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 compatibility
zert ohmyzsh lib/clipboard           # OMZ library
zert use prezto                      # enable Prezto compatibility
zert prezto modules/utility          # Prezto module
zert zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions   # GitHub shorthand
zert https://github.com/user/repo    # full URL
zert user/repo --branch dev          # track a branch
zert /home/me/my-plugin              # local plugin

zert user/plugin --pin abc123        # pin to commit
zert user/plugin --branch dev         # track branch
zert user/plugin --no-alias           # skip aliases
zert user/plugin --no-completion      # skip completions
zert user/plugin --only-completion    # completions only

zert list      # show installed plugins
zert update    # update all plugins
zert prune     # remove unused plugins