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Long Story Short Fedora 44 is a big step up from Fedora 42 on the Raspberry Pi 5. The install process is still the same, and it supports the Pi well. The main limit is still the UEFI to VideoCore translation layer, but the base OS clearly has potential. What’s Changed With Fedora 44 Same install steps as before: build disk.raw, flash it with dd, add the firmware to the EFI partition, and boot. Fedora 44 boots and runs well on the Pi 5. The UEFI to VideoCore translation layer still limits what works. Starting a Hummingbird Image for RPi5 I started working on a Raspberry Pi 5 compatible Fedora Hummingbird bootc image. The goal is simple: get hummingbird-bootc running on the Pi 5. ...

Long Story Short I tried running a Fedora 42 bootc image on a Raspberry Pi 5. It’s a partial success, but I got far enough to learn a lot. The Pi 5 boots and I can log in, but the stock kernel can’t see the Ethernet chip, the Wi-Fi chip, or most other drivers. Only the USB ports work. How I Installed Fedora 42 bootc into RPi5? Built an ARM64 disk.raw image with bootc-image-builder from Raspberry Pi 5 itself. (I know QEMU exists, but I couldn’t get it working due to my lack of knowledge with QEMU) *shrugs Flashed it on an SD Card with dd. Added the community EDK2 UEFI firmware (rpi5-uefi to the EFI partition, next to the existing EFI/ folder. Booted the Pi5 and reached a Fedora 42 Login. (partially successful). Full guide here. ...

A candid recap of representing Fedora at FOSS United Chennai, navigating an unexpected live demo mistake, and finding inspiration in the local community.

This blog covers the complete redesign of Forgejo’s commit page to fix mobile issues and improve usability, sharing the design process, bugs fixed, skills learned, and community collaboration that made it possible.

Fedora Project is fortunate enough to secure a booth at DevConf India in Pune. Akashdeep Dhar, Samyak Jain, Shounak Dey & myself attended DevConf India representing Fedora Project. The booth was a success, we also attracted a lot of new comers and those who are in their early phase in open source. Most of the visitors were college students and early in their career. We also had Matthew Miller’s talk which attracted so many people and the room was filled with lot of people as well.

Got the opportunity to talk with open-source and Linux enthusiasts. Some college students recognized my Fedora t-shirt and invited me to talk with them. I explained what the Fedora Project is, how they can make the most of open source, and shared some major updates happening in the Fedora Project.

Exploring the city of Prague, going to museums, having dinner with Fedora folks and more. This is the day before the last day in Prague, and it was certainly great day.

The last felt day of Flock went fast for me and it was kind of sad to reach the end of conference so soon. I have enjoyed my time there, and it was trully a new experience for me and I’m thankful for Fedora Project!

The day started late for me and ended with a boat ride. I experienced so many ‘first-time’ moments, and it became one of the most memorable parts of my life.

A great start with announcement of new FPL, Mentor-Mentee Lunch Matching, Forgejo Discussions and more.