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Friction in Fedora over [Slop] developer desktop initiative

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 21, 2026

A push by Red Hat employees to create a Fedora "[Slop] Developer Desktop" with support for out-of-tree kernel drivers and [Slop] toolkits has been met with objections from some long-time members of the Fedora community. After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the Fedora Council had voted to approve the initiative; however, a last-minute change to vote against the proposal by council member Justin Wheeler has (at least temporarily) sent it back to the drawing board.

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