News : UEFI Secure Boot keys are expiring in June 2026.

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.

News : Linux 7.2 kernel big changes without 486 and new Panther Lake changes.

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@linux-foundation.org.

Thank you. Good work!

News : F44 Election Results ...

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 results. We are posting the results early this year as we are currently on the eve of Flock to Fedora 2026 and the results were ready. Thank you to all candidates and voters, and congratulations to the newly elected members!

See the official website.

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

Fedora 44 : testing Django 6.0.4 .

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.:

Fedora 44 : Fedora 44 Server with budgie ...

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:

News : Fedora Budgie Spin intro

Today, I saw this good environment and will test with Fedora server on virtualbox because I don't have hardware to test it.

You can see more about this with the Fedora Spin.

The Fedora Budgie Spin showcases the Budgie Desktop, a feature-rich, modern desktop designed to keep out the way of the user. Budgie Desktop uses common desktop design metaphors while offering users sophisticated functionality such as its Raven widget and notification center, and an approachable method to personalization.

Fedora 38: First official release of Fedora Budgie Spin was on 2023.

Fedora 39–44: Continuous updates, better Wayland support, and alignment with upstream Budgie.

Fedora 44 Beta: Ships with Budgie 10.10 and improved integration.

The basic commands for install this fedora package with gdm.

$sudo dnf5 install @budgie-desktop-environment
$sudo dnf5 install budgie-desktop
$sudo dnf5 install @base-x gdm
$sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
$sudo systemctl enable gdm --now
$sudo reboot

NOTE: If these commands not work then you need to make one update with all packages.

News : the new Linux 7.0 kernel series.

Good news for linux users, see the official website:

From Linus Torvalds Date Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:40:09 -0800 Subject Linux 7.0-rc1 You all know the drill by now: two weeks have passed, and the kernel merge window is closed. We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers. We haven't done releases based on features (or on "stable vs unstable") for a long long time now. So that new major number does *not* mean that we have some big new exciting feature, or that we're somehow leaving old interfaces behind. It's the usual "solid progress" marker, nothing more. With our normal release schedule of 5-6 releases per year and my antipathy to big version numbers, you should basically expect us to bump the major number roughly every 3.5 years. And yeah, I don't have a solid plan for when the major number itself gets big. But doing the math - by that time, I expect that we'll have somebody more competent in charge who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens. So I'm not going to worry about it. Anyway - despit eany lingering ".0 release" worries that people might have due to experiences with other projects, this was one of those fairly smooth merge window for me. I define those as the merge windows where I don't have to bisect boot failures on any of my machines. Admittedly this time around that was because I caught one failure case early before I *actually* booted into it, but hey, that still technically counts as "smooth" to me. But your milage may vary. Which is why you should now all drop everything, run to your computers, and test-build and test-boot a shiny new kernel. The fact that it all works for *me* is good, but let's make sure it works for others too, ok? Just kidding. A leisurely stroll after you've finished chewing is fine. ...

News : Fedora 43 comes without Xorg.

Fedora 43 won't support Xorg, the distro's. All GNOME X11 session users will be migrated to the Wayland session.

Fedora 43 will ship with Python 3.14, Linux Kernel 6.17, KDE 6.4, and RPM 6.0. It will come with Mesa 25.1.4 graphics drivers. Beta builds of Fedora 43 Workstation, KDE Plasma Desktop, Server, IoT, and Cloud are available for download on the distro's website.