Fedora Workstation 42 Live

64-bit

Fedora, one of the largest and oldest distributions, is the source of packages for commercial distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux, and Rocky Linux. Fedora Workstation is one of a half dozen download editions. Like Server, Core, and the newly added KDE Plasma, the Workstation edition traditionally features leading edge technology, and Fedora Workstation 42 is no exception. Many of these features continue the transition away from X11 towards Wayland. Notable features include the latest alpha release of COSMIC, the Rust-written desktop being developed by System76; FEX, a speedy new emulator for running x86 and x86-64 binaries on an AArch64 Linux host; and additional support for integrated cameras found in x86 laptops and tablets.

More importantly, Fedora Workstation 42 is one of the first distributions to include Intelligent Input Bus (iBus), an advanced framework for multilingual input now available on Wayland. Through iBus, Fedora Workstation now supports pop-ups for non-Wayland applications on various Wayland desktops as well as the advanced ibus-speech-to-text feature that runs without Internet connectivity. The result is a new level of sophistication when dealing with more than one language. For instructions about adding iBus on various desktops, see https://desktopi18n.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/ibus-1-5-32-plan/.

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