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Fedora Linux 40

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Fedora Linux 40

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Fast, flexible & future-ready—built for all your hardware, cloud, and container needs

Fedora Linux Overview

Fedora Linux is designed with groundbreaking features to support various hardware configurations, cloud environments, and containerised applications.

Fedora offers a highly customisable environment, allowing you to tailor your setup by selecting the specific packages and features that best suit your needs. Security is a key focus, with features such as SELinux enhancing kernel security and Security Profiles providing additional protection. The platform stays up to date by delivering the latest software packages and updates, ensuring your system benefits from the newest improvements and patches.

Fully supported by a free and open-source Fedora ecosystem, Fedora fosters transparency and innovation. As an open-source project, it also benefits from a large and knowledgeable community, providing extensive expertise and support. Additionally, Fedora Cloud is optimised for container workloads, making it an excellent host for running containerised applications efficiently and reliably.

Fedora Linux 40 Highlights

1. Core System: Linux Kernel 6.8

  • Virtualization improvements: Intel Linear Address Masking (LAM) and guest-first memory support in KVM.
  • Filesystem enhancements:
    • Online check and repair for Bcachefs and XFS.
    • Better small block reads in Ext4.
    • Continued development in Btrfs and EROFS.
  • Expanded hardware support:
    • Broadcom BCM2712 (Raspberry Pi 5).
    • AMD WBRF Wi-Fi.
    • New Intel Xe DRM driver.
  • Memory management improvements:
    • Enhanced Transparent Huge Pages (THP).
    • zswap writeback control.
    • Early Rust integration.
  • Networking enhancements:
    • Improved cache performance.
    • New SMB file creation capabilities.
  • Power management: RISC-V support for SBI-based suspend.
  • Security upgrade: AppArmor now uses SHA256 for hashing.

2. Native PyTorch Integration

  • Simple installation with sudo dnf install python3-torch.
  • Currently CPU-only support.
  • GPU and NPU support planned for future releases.
  • Simplifies AI and machine learning workflows on Fedora.

3. Container Tooling

  • Podman 5.0 with rewritten machine implementation.
  • Pasta as new default rootless network backend.
  • Transition from BoltDB to SQLite for container management.

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