The fortieth release of Fedora GNU/Linux is here. It is released on
Tuesday, 23 April 2024 or a few days earlier than Ubuntu Noble Numbat
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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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.
– CoreOS: advanced, automatically updating container tech based edition.
Fedora 40 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_64-40-1.14.iso
Fedora 40 Server
Download: Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-40-1.14.iso
Fedora 40 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-40-20240422.3.x86_64.iso
Fedora 40 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/
Fedora 40 CoreOS
Download: https://fedoraproject.org/coreos/download/
Checksums
These are SHA256SUMs from ISO images mentioned above collected from Fedora 40 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.
# Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-1.14.iso: 2295853056 bytes
SHA256 (Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-40-1.14.iso) = dd1faca950d1a8c3d169adf2df4c3644ebb62f8aac04c401f2393e521395d613
# Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-40-1.14.iso: 2612854784 bytes
SHA256 (Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-40-1.14.iso) = 32d9ab1798fc8106a0b06e873bdcd83a3efea8412c9401dfe4097347ed0cfc65
# Fedora-IoT-ostree-40-20240422.3.x86_64.iso: 2501836800 bytes
SHA256 (Fedora-IoT-ostree-40-20240422.3.x86_64.iso) = b7146f197e669342eadbce3bf78209e92a330faa2715c8da30eb748be6be5de6
Other Downloads
Fedora 40 offers even more editions namely:
– Atomic Desktop (5 editions) Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway and Budgie Atomic
– 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.
About 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.
References
Red Hat’s Announcement of Fedora 40
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