The forty-third release of Fedora GNU/Linux is here. It's released on
Tuesday, 28 October 2025 or the same month Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing
Quokka" was released. It is available in a lot of editions, mainly:
Workstation, KDE Plasma Edition (new!), Server, IoT, Cloud and many
more. We make a summary of the downloads for you below (and links to
find the rest). Finally, congratulations and thank you to Fedora
developers and the whole community. Happy downloading!
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Fedora Editions
We explain Fedora editions as follows. Please note that it is a little bit different to Ubuntu and The Official Flavors.
1. Workstation: desktop edition.
2. KDE Plasma Edition: formerly a Spin, now recognized as an independent edition.
3. Server: standard server edition.
4. IoT: command line based Raspberry-pi-like embedded edition.
5. Cloud: advanced server or Virtual Machine Image edition.
6. CoreOS: advanced, automatically updating container-based edition
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Fedora 43 Workstation
Fedora Workstation is the desktop edition. It is powered with GNOME desktop environment, LibreOffice and DNF. Today it is, like Ubuntu, available for two modern architectures, amd64 (x86_64) and arm64 (aarch64) and not the old one PC 32-bit (also known as i386 or x86) anymore. Download the x86_64 if you do not have any idea which one to choose.
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Fedora 43 KDE Plasma Edition
Fedora KDE Plasma Edition is the new generation desktop edition made official in this release. It is powered with KDE Plasma, just like Kubuntu. Download this if you want an alternative to the GNOME desktop offered in the Workstation edition.
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Fedora 43 Server
Fedora Server is the standard server edition. It is command line interface (CLI) based like any other server operating system. Download this if you plan to empower your server or even your PC as one.
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Fedora 43 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.
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Fedora 43 Cloud
Fedora Cloud is the edition for use in Virtual Machines or advanced server setups like Amazon AWS public/private services. It is available in 4 architecture options, with even more selection of platforms.
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Fedora 43 CoreOS
Fedora CoreOS is the edition for use as a minimal, automatically-updating and container-based system available across three different release streams: Stable, Testing and Next for four different architectures. It can also be launched immediately in both AWS as well as GCP.
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Checksums
These are SHA256SUMs from ISO images mentioned above collected from Fedora 43 official download page. You should verify each of ISO image file you downloaded to match the official SHA256SUM (read Pro Tip below), otherwise it is not valid and you should re-download it.
# Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso: 2742190080 bytes
SHA256 (Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso) = 2a4a16c009244eb5ab2198700eb04103793b62407e8596f30a3e0cc8ac294d77
# Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso: 3265843200 bytes
SHA256 (Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso) = 181fe3e265fb5850c929f5afb7bdca91bb433b570ef39ece4a7076187435fdab
# Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-43-1.6.iso: 3484483584 bytes
SHA256 (Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-43-1.6.iso) = aca06983bef83da9b43144c1a2ff4c8483e4745167c17f53725c16a16742e643
# Fedora-IoT-ostree-43-20251024.0.x86_64.iso: 2266001408 bytes
SHA256 (Fedora-IoT-ostree-43-20251024.0.x86_64.iso) = 5b711ede484a37e26bb40c36084d188a07be175e69fc959c34501ce8fa785f54
Pro Tip!
Don't know how to verify checksums yet? Don't worry, please read our General Downloading Guide that includes the procedures in a step-by-step manner you can follow. Good luck!
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Other Downloads
Fedora 43, other than those mentioned above, has even more editions, namely:
1. Atomic Desktops: Silverblue, Sway etc. fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/
2. Spins (10 editions): fedoraproject.org/spins
3. Labs (12 editions): labs.fedoraproject.org
4. Torrents (all editions): torrent.fedoraproject.org
That can be selected and downloaded from www.fedoraproject.org -> top menu -> Get Fedora -> page will show them all or optionally you can scroll down to the bottom of the page -> there are columns of The Editions.
(We downloaded Fedora 43 using Transmission BitTorrent)
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Contributing to Fedora
The Fedora Project invites everyone to join the development together.
Participating is fun! Your name can be noted as one of the people who built Fedora GNU/Linux. If you want to participate, you can get involved
in any kind of participation you can, including software development,
packaging, testing, and debugging, as well as art creativity, graphic
design, marketing, etc. See References section below.
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About Fedora
Fedora, originating 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 of hardware platform supports, as well as the number of editions it offers. It runs on desktops, laptops, servers, 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 at real life conferences around the world. First released in 2003 as Fedora Core version 1 and released in 2025 as Fedora version 43. Visit the official website at https://fedoraproject.org.
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See Also
How To Install Fedora on Your Computer or Laptop
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References
Fedora 43 Announcement
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