{"id":10184,"date":"2025-04-10T22:06:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T02:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=10184"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:44:20","slug":"linux-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=10184","title":{"rendered":"Linux News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"10184\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>There are two items of interesting Linux news today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fedora 42<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first is that Fedora 42 will be officially released on Tuesday, April 15, which is tax day in the USA, so at least some of us will have a reason to be happy despite that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New features will include a new web interface for the Anaconda installer; enhancements to DNF5 that provides better key management; the newest version of Ruby; tools to manage Python packaging; and a new <a href=\"https:\/\/system76.com\/cosmic\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/system76.com\/cosmic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cosmic desktop<\/a> from System76, the Colorado hardware company that preloads POP_os! Linux; and more. KDE Plasma will enjoy promotion to full-fledged edition of it&#8217;s own rather than a spin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll be installing Fedora 42 on most of my systems on the 15th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">systemd book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My newest book, &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?page_id=10187\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?page_id=10187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">systemd for the SysAdmin &#8212; All You Need to Know About The systemd Suite for Linux Users<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; is now in typesetting and we&#8217;re on schedule for a late June release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two items of interesting Linux news today. Fedora 42 The first is that Fedora 42 will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,5,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-linux","category-news"],"modified_by":"David Both","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10191,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10184\/revisions\/10191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}