Fedora Linux 41 Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux Kernel 6.11 and GNOME 47
Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.11 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 41 beta is here to showcase the soon-to-be-released GNOME 47 desktop environment on the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, which is now Wayland-only and once again supports installing the NVIDIA drivers with Secure Boot enabled, as well as the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment on the Fedora KDE Spin.
Fedora Linux 41 finally switches to DNF5 for a faster and more enhanced package management experience, enables systemd service hardening features for default system services to improve security, accelerates the GnuTLS implementation with software Kernel TLS (KTLS), adds ROCm 6.2 for AMD users, and enables bootupd for Fedora Atomic Desktops and Fedora IoT.
Red Hat Blog:
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Fedora 41 Beta now available
Today, the Fedora Project is excited to announce the beta availability of Fedora Linux 41, the latest version of the free and open source operating system. While we’ll have more to share with the general availability of Fedora Linux 41 later this fall, there’s plenty in Fedora 41 Beta to get excited about.
BetaNews:
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Fedora Linux 41 Beta brings DNF 5, Nvidia driver support, and Redis replacement
The Fedora Project has officially released Fedora Linux 41 Beta, offering a preview of what’s to come in the final version of Fedora Linux 41. As usual, the beta is open for public testing and includes several significant updates that are sure to spark interest among Linux enthusiasts and developers alike.
This release covers multiple versions, including Fedora Workstation 41 Beta, Fedora Server 41 Beta, Fedora IoT 41 Beta, and Fedora Cloud 41 Beta. Users can get these editions directly from the Fedora Project’s website or upgrade from an existing system using the DNF system-upgrade command.
For those unfamiliar, Fedora Beta releases are nearly complete versions of what will become the final release. These betas offer a critical chance for users to test new features and report any bugs that could improve the final product. Additionally, bug reports help the broader Linux ecosystem, as Fedora's updates often influence upstream projects, making these releases valuable for more than just Fedora users.
OSTechNix:
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Fedora Linux 41 Beta Is Officially Released
The Fedora Project announced the release of Fedora Linux 41 Beta! This beta release is code-complete and offers a sneak peek into the exciting features that will be available in the final release in about a month.
Fedora Linux 41 beta ships with Linux Kernel 6.11, GNOME 47 on Workstation edition, KDE Plasma 6.1 on Fedora KDE edition, DNF5 and many new features.
Linux Magazine:
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Fedora 41 Beta Available with Some Interesting... » Linux Magazine
Fedora 41 is approaching, and that means it's beta time! As usual, the upcoming release includes updates to familiar packages, such as LLVM 19, LXQt 2.0, Python 3.13, RPM 4.20, and more. One package update that should excite creative types is the inclusion of the long-awaited Gimp 3.0, which alone is worth giving this new version a try.
But Gimp 3.0 isn't the only trick up Fedora 41's sleeve. You'll also find support for self-encrypting drives that can be enabled via the Anaconda installer. Other exciting features include support for Intel's IPU6 camera that uses the IPU6 CSI-receiver driver. Another update is that Gnome X11 packages have been removed from the Fedora Workstation media, meaning this is a Wayland-only release.
Other new additions include unprivileged updates for Fedora Atomic Desktops, a new official spin for the up-and-coming Miracle window manager (a Wayland-based tiling window manager), DNF5, the new fedora-repoquery tool (command-line tool for doing repoqueries of Fedora EPEL, ELN, and CentOS Stream repositories), a post-build cleanup integrated into RPM, Valkey replacing Redis, and much more.
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ZDNet (Jack Wallen):
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Fedora 41 beta is blazing fast and a great reason to try a new Linux distro | ZDNET
For about five years now, I've become rather enamored of the Fedora Linux distribution. Yes, I've known about it for far longer, but for much of its existence, I saw Fedora as a distribution mainly for developers and those already quite familiar with the open-source operating system. Fedora was bleeding edge and would often break.
That was then. Today, Fedora is a different beast -- fast, stable, secure, and easy enough for anyone to use. Fedora went from a niche distribution to one that can be used productively by anyone.
With the release of version 41 beta, the Fedora team demonstrates this once again. Version 41 has far more changes than one might expect from a release that's not a major milestone -- v30, v40, v50, etc -- and all the changes come together to make a truly fantastic operating system.
The Register:
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Fedora 41 beta arrives, neck-and-neck with Ubuntu
For those on the RPM side of the fence, Fedora 41 has hit beta, and works better in VirtualBox than ever if you're curious to try it.
41 will soon be the latest version of Red Hat's free distro for those who like living on the edge. The beta version appeared last week and release is planned for mid-October. Although Red Hat is thirty something now, as a Linux distro the Fedora project is about the same age as Ubuntu, and they share the same release cadence: two new versions a year, following shortly after the GNOME project releases its semiannual releases.