The Fedora Linux installer application is getting a new look… 👀🎨⭐️

It’s quite some time since we created the current GTK based UI for Anaconda: the OS installer for Fedora, RHEL, CentOS. For a long time we (the Anaconda team) were looking for possibilities to modernize and improve the user experience. In this post, we would like to explain what we are working on, and—most of all—inform you about what you can expect in the future.

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/anaconda-is-getting-a-new-suit/

And it's #FedoraShareYourScreen week. Are you ready showing your screenshots? https://fedoramagazine.org/fedorashareyourscreen-week-f35/

#FedoraShareYourScreen Week is still on! We have seen amazing desktops, what are you waiting for? Send your screenshot and show how it looks your workflow! Remember to use the hashtag #FedoraShareYourScreen and to mention @fedora on twitter or @thefedoraproject on instagram

Did you know? Fedora dist-git is starting to appear on Sourcegraph…

https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=repo:%5Esrc.fedoraproject.org/

Coming in Fedora Linux 36, a new security tool allows you to remove packages no longer maintained in official distribution repositories. Read more about remove-retired-packages:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetiredPackages

We are excited to invite you all to our first ever Fedora Mentor Summit. We have talks, panel discussions, fun sessions and a lot more focused on the topic "Mentorship"!
It's on April 1st and 2nd. https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mentor-summit-is-here/

Fedora 36 Wallpaper Test Day is Tomorrow! For all the folks who are Dark Theme lovers out there. This is a good place to start testing the new hotness of GNOME 42
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/help-us-test-fedora-linux-36-beta-wallpaper/37890

BIOS be gone? A group of Fedora contributors proposed a change for Fedora Linux 37 that officially deprecates legacy BIOS and requires UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora Linux installations. Existing legacy BIOS systems will be able to boot, but new installs will not have the option to install with legacy BIOS.

If successful, this change would pave the way to remove BIOS support entirely in Fedora Linux 38. While this will eventually reduce workload for boot/installation components (grub2 reduces surface area, syslinux goes away entirely, anaconda reduces surface area), the reduction in support burden extends much further into the stack - for instance, VESA support can be removed from the distro.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS

Fedora QA team is running 3 test days. Fedora Kernel 5.17, Fedora 36 CoreOS and Fedora Cloud. A good time to start contributing if you new and if you have been around, remember the more test weeks, you participate you get new shiny badges :D Read all about 'em here and if you have any question reach out to me!
https://fedoramagazine.org/contribute-at-the-fedora-kernel-5-17-coreos-cloud-iot-and-audio-test-days/

We just learned that there's an opportunity to have a brand new Fedora Media Writer 5.0 (with a completely redone UI, but using the same background code) together with the Fedora 36 release. The timing is tight, but we agreed that we'd like to give it a try. The latest 5.0 builds are here:
https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter/releases

Please reach out to @test list incase you find something of concern. The following thread will give you a bit more context. Please reply with your test results :)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/L2QQJ5CNJOQ7ZGKXPUPVZ7DU5UJ6BVFO/

You might want to check if pigs can fly. NVIDIA announces today the first release of open source GPU kernel modules. The announcement can be found on the NVIDIA Technical Blog. People like Kevin Martin, the manager for Red Hat's GPU technologies team, Ben Skeggs the maintainer of Nouveau and Dave Airlie, the upstream kernel maintainer for the graphics subsystem, Nouveau contributor Karol Herbst and accelerator lead Tom Rix have all taken part in meetings, code reviews and discussions on how to make this happen with NVIDIA over the last Month.

Christian F.K. Schaller put together an excellent opinion on this work and what the practical impact to Linux users will be (spoiler alert: it might still be a long time before you see NVIDIA drivers in your next Linux kernel update). But this opens an exciting new opportunity for GPUs on Linux.

Ref: Why is the open source driver release from NVidia so important for Linux?

Hey!
we are going to run a global meet and greet for folks interested in Fedora's Outreach! The announcement is out and will love you see you all around https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/calling-all-fedorans-for-outreach/39050

Fedora 37 Kernel 5.18 Test Week is under. Participate and make Fedora Linux better
https://fedoramagazine.org/contribute-at-the-fedora-linux-37-test-week-for-kernel-5-18/

In the spirit of Fedora's "First" Foundation, Fedora Linux helps lead the charge for improved security in Linux. A Change Proposal for Fedora Linux 37 was submitted today that proposes to retire OpenSSL 1.1 and help any important software packages move to the newer OpenSSL 3.0 architecture (which was already added in Fedora Linux 36).

👇 The details 👇

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateOpensslCompat

The Latam community is inviting you to an event on Panama: Fedora Explorer Day if you're on Panama, you can go and connect with our community there

The Mexico Community is inviting you to their hatch:
https://www.meetup.com/fedora-mexico/events/287395509/

We are excited to share that our annual contributor conference "Nest with Fedora" is coming up August 4-6th!

Join us to learn what's happening in the Fedora world and connect with the developers who make it happen!
Register at https://hopin.com/events/nest-with-fedora-2022/registration