35 Fedora Releases in 30 Minutes (plus Q&A!)
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Chronological tour of Fedora’s 35 releases highlights concrete bets, tooling and outcomes: upstream integration drives change, packages quadruple early on, Fedora moves from Red Hat control to a consensus governance model and a Fedora Council, build infra shifts to dist‑git and mirrors supply popularity stats, upgrades are fixed with the fedup upgrade tool, package manager switches to Yum replaces RH update, systemd and GNOME 3 prove technically right but land poorly, RPM‑OSTree/Silverblue and eventual Btrfs adoption succeed, Lenovo laptops ship Fedora preinstalled and release cadence stabilizes to ~182 days.
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- 0:00Fedora's journey begins
- 2:28Fedora Core 1: community starts
- 3:52Fedora Core 2: early frustrations
- 5:56Fedora Core 3: governance rises
- 6:38Fedora Core 4: first FUDCon
- 9:04Fedora Core 5: Yum introduced
- 10:28Fedora 6: Foundation formed
- 11:31Fedora 7: Core and Extras merge
- 12:33Fedora 8: spins introduced
- 13:37Fedora 9: init scripts replaced
- 14:18Fedora 10: Foundations revisited
- 15:43Fedora 11: new website launch
- 16:46Fedora 12: major changes
- 17:51Fedora 13: awkward teenage years
- 19:37Fedora 14: upgrade struggles
- 21:00Fedora 15: Seth Vidal tragedy
- 22:24Fedora 16: Flock planning
- 25:15Fedora 17: code names dropped
- 26:15Fedora 18: Fedora Council formed
- 28:00Fedora 19: new mission statement
- 30:07Fedora 20: 10-year milestone
- 31:50Fedora 21: editions introduced
- 33:37Fedora 22: Lenovo laptops
- 34:41Fedora 23: virtual events transition
- 35:22Fedora 24: Btrfs adoption
- 36:06Fedora 25: new logo and GNOME 40
- 37:07Fedora's future plans
- 39:14Final thoughts and Q&A
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