Ade Malsasa Akbar contact
Senior author, Open Source enthusiast.
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 23:34

The thirty eighth release of Fedora GNU/Linux is here. It is released on Tuesday, 18 April 2023 or a few days earlier than Ubuntu Lunar Lobster release date. It is available in a lot of editions, mainly: Workstation, Server, IoT, Cloud and many more. We make a summary of the downloads for you below to mention only editions we believe most readers will be interested to try (and links to find the rest). Finally, congratulations to all computer users and thank you to Fedora developers. Happy downloading!

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About Fedora 

 

Fedora, originated from Hawaii, United States, is a computer operating system and GNU/Linux distribution parent to Red Hat Enterprise OS. It is famous for its leadership in technological advancement and for its abundance on hardware platform supports as well as number of editions it offers. It runs on desktop, laptop, server, IoT devices, as well as virtual machines and advanced server systems (like AWS Cloud) and latest bleeding edge machines like IBM POWER. It is developed in public by the community via the internet and also real life conferences around the world. Visit the website at https://fedoraproject.org.


Fedora Editions


We explain Fedora editions as the following. Please note that it is a little bit different to Ubuntu and The Official Flavors.


- Workstation: desktop edition.

- Server: standard server edition.

- IoT: command line based Raspberry-pi-like embedded edition.

- Cloud: advanced server or Virtual Machine Image edition.


New Download Page


The old download web page was getfedora.org and the new one now is fedoraproject.org. It got a refresh to be clearer and better now. Please refer to this page if you need more information.


Fedora 38 Workstation


Fedora Workstation is the desktop edition. It is powered with GNOME desktop environment, LibreOffice and DNF. We show only x86_64 (PC 64-bit) option here. Download this if you do not know everything else.

Download: Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-38-1.6.iso


Fedora 38 Server


Fedora Server is the standard server edition. It is command line interface (CLI) based like any other server operating system. We show only x86_64 (PC 64-bit) option here. Download this if you plan to empower your server or even your PC as one.

Download: Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-38-1.6.iso

Fedora 38 IoT


Fedora IoT (short for Internet of Things) is a lightweight operating system without desktop environment for devices like Raspberry Pi. It is available in 4 different architecture options, but we only show one of them here.

Download: Fedora-IoT-ostree-38.20230414.1-20230414.1.x86_64.iso


Cloud


Fedora Cloud is the edition for use in Virtual Machines or advanced server setup like Amazon AWS public/private services. It is available in 4 architecture options, with even more selection of platforms. 

Download: https://fedoraproject.org/cloud/download/

Checksums


These are SHA256SUMs from ISO images mentioned above collected from Fedora 38 official download page. You should verify each of ISO image file you downloaded to match the official SHA256SUM, otherwise it is not valid and you should re-download it.


SHA256 (Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-38-1.6.iso) = 7a444a2e19012023bf0b015ae30135bafc5fd20f4f333310d42b118745093992 

SHA256 (Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-38-1.6.iso) = 66b52d7cb39386644cd740930b0bef0a5a2f2be569328fef6b1f9b3679fdc54d

SHA256 (Fedora-IoT-ostree-38.20230414.1-20230414.1.x86_64.iso) = 9e5afe3ea869d315a6715135a9dbe85c4aee38344b9410401c60c16cd70f4e6e


Other Downloads


Fedora 38 offers even more editions namely:


- Immutable Desktop (3 editions) Silverblue, Kinoite and Sericea

- Spins (10 editions) spins.fedoraproject.org

- Labs (12 editions) labs.fedoraproject.org

- Torrents (all editions) torrent.fedoraproject.org

 

That can be selected and downloaded from https://fedoraproject.org -> top menu -> Get Fedora -> page shows them all or optionally bottom of the page -> there are columns of The Editions.

 

References 

 

Fedora 38 Announcement

Fedora 38 Release Notes
 



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