What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2024,
updated Nov 15, 2024

Quoting: What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 41 - Fedora Magazine —

After a long wait and a lot of work and testing, bootloader updates are finally enabled by default for Atomic Desktops.

For now, only UEFI systems will see their bootloader automatically updated on boot as it is the safest option. Automatic updates for classic BIOS systems will be enabled in the upcoming weeks.

If you encounter issues when updating old systems, take a look at the Manual action needed to resolve boot failure for Fedora Atomic Desktops and Fedora IoT Fedora Magazine article which includes instructions to manually update UEFI systems.

Once you are on Fedora 41, there is nothing more to do.

See the Enable bootupd for Fedora Atomic Desktops and Fedora IoT change request and the tracking issue atomic-desktops-sig#1.

Read on

Linuxiac:

• What’s New in Fedora 41's Atomic Desktops

  Fedora 41 was recently released, capturing much of the attention, as expected. However, the new Atomic Desktops brand comes alongside it, which unifies all of Fedora’s rpm-ostree-based (immutable) spins under one umbrella and introduces several exciting updates in its version 41. So, let’s take a look at what’s new.

  First thing first, after a long wait, automatic bootloader updates have been enabled by default for Atomic Desktops on UEFI systems.

  While this change brings greater convenience and security, BIOS users will need to be patient—automatic updates for classic BIOS systems are coming in the next few weeks. For now, manual actions may still be needed if issues arise on older systems.

Also KDE:

• Fedora KDE gets approval to be upgraded to sit alongside Fedora Workstation

  Fedora Workstation with GNOME is the main edition of the Fedora Linux distribution, but their Fedora KDE Desktop Spin just got approval to become a lot more important.

The Register:

• Fedora 41: A vast assortment, but something for everyone

  At the end of October, Fedora 41 came out, with more different variants than ever before: 29 by our count, not including all the architectures and download options.

  Fedora 41 shipped at the end of October, a little short of three weeks after Ubuntu 24.10. We looked at the beta of the flagship GNOME Workstation about a month before release, but there is a great deal more to the Fedora project than the familiar flagship. It now has so many different variants that they're split into categories to help you keep track.