Contribute at the Fedora CoreOS and IoT Test Week

fedora 41 podman 5.3

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora Linux before, this is a perfect way to get started.

There are two overlapping test periods in the coming week.

  • Monday 07 October through Friday October 11, focuses on testing Fedora CoreOS .
  • Monday 07 October through Friday October 11, focuses on testing Fedora IoT.

Fedora IoT

For this test week, the focus is all-around; test all the bits that come in a Fedora IoT release as well as validate different hardware. This includes:

  • Basic installation to different media
  • Installing in a VM
  • rpm-ostree upgrades, layering, rebasing
  • Basic container manipulation with Podman.

We welcome all different types of hardware, but have a specific list of target hardware for convenience. This test week will occur Monday 07 October through Friday 11 October.

Fedora 41 CoreOS Test Week

The Fedora 41 CoreOS Test Week focuses on testing FCOS based on Fedora 41. The FCOS next stream is already rebased on Fedora 41 content, which will be coming soon to testing and stable. To prepare for the content being promoted to other streams the Fedora CoreOS and QA teams have organized test days from Monday, 07 October through 11 October. Refer to the wiki page for links to the test cases and materials you’ll need to participate. The FCOS and QA team will meet and communicate with the community asynchronously over multiple matrix/element channels. The announcements will be made 48 hours prior to the start of test week. Stay tuned to official Fedora channels for more info.

How do test days work?

Test days or weeks are an event where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. Test days are the perfect way to start contributing if you not in the past.

The only requirement to get started is the ability to download test materials (which include some large files) and then read and follow directions step by step.

Detailed information about all the test days are on the wiki page links provided above. If you are available on or around the days of the events, please do some testing and report your results.

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8 Comments

  1. Lars Martin Hambro

    can you give better information? Fedora Rawide?
    Sorry its to hard to understand why? Fedora 41 CoreOS need to be tested (Rawide) still not much issue anything dos emulator\wine and mac OSX\Chrome flex compactibliy and hardware optimaizer?

    Missing most software that make linux better than windows.
    Its missing also hardware upgrade software? Some use HDD instead of SSD, or better perfomance? AMD its poor to linux, better with intel or nvidia?

  2. Pavel

    “The FCOS next stream is already rebased on Fedora 38 content”
    I hope it’s a typo and Fedora 41 was actually meant.
    I’ll test CoreOS shortly, I have some devices that need a new OS.

  3. Amaury

    emulators like snes 9x scaling iisues on fedora…aswell as audio 5.1

  4. Warren

    I tried 2 different Fedoras, this COre and the regular one think as i heard its a good type of Linux but both have same problem: YouTube and Twitch don’t work at all (not playing videos).

    How about fixing this type of fundamental stuff??

    • Benjamin

      Welcome Warren,

      I’m not sure this is the right place to ask such question, you’ll get more help in the Discourse community forum, but… have you installed multimedia codecs?

      Fedora editions are 100% Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS), following the first foundation of Fedora’s mission: Freedom.

      Many audio/video codecs are patented and proprietary (and their distribution is legally restricted in some countries). It is therefore fundamental that those bits are excluded from Fedoras distributions. Many Linux distributions are alike, to that regard.

      However, you’re absolutely free to install those codecs by yourself. It is fairly easy to do so:
      https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/installing-plugins-for-playing-movies-and-music/

  5. Grandpa Leslie Satenstein

    The problem
    I can, without issue, boot Workstation, and then reboot KDE.
    However, after using Fedora 41KDE, I cannot go directly Fed41 Workstation. The / partition header appears damaged.
    I tried with btrfs to do a repair, but that failed. I am unable to boot Workstation after using KDE.

    Next, I fully reinstalled Workstation, and experienced the same problem. Do not use Workstation after using KDE.

    Workaround
    And for the third time after installing Worksation, I first powered off the system immediately after using Fed41KDE and then restarted the desktop, selected Workstation, and it works fine. I repeated this a few times, KDE-Power-recycle-Workstation without issues.

    It seems that ram or whatever seems to remain in RAM remembers the previous /, eg, root partition.
    I am using btrfs.

    I have since removed KDE from that nvme drive, and I am wondering if I will experience the same problem if I install F41KDE onto a second drive. I want to remain with KDE because Mozilla Firefox’s .mozilla is common to the two distros.

    By the way, using a third (non Fedora distro), mounting the root to workstation (root ==>> /mnt) and browsing therein, workstation as again available.

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