Actually if you’re on Rawhide, 42 is already out:
NAME=“Fedora Linux”
VERSION=“42 (MATE-Compiz Prerelease)”
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=42
VERSION_CODENAME=“”
PLATFORM_ID=“platform:f42”
PRETTY_NAME=“Fedora Linux 42 (MATE-Compiz Prerelease)”
ANSI_COLOR=“0;38;2;60;110;180”
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME=“cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42”
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME=“fedora”
HOME_URL=“https://fedoraproject.org/”
DOCUMENTATION_URL=“https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/rawhide/system-administrators-guide/”
SUPPORT_URL=“https://ask.fedoraproject.org/”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugzilla.redhat.com/”
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT=“Fedora”
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=rawhide
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT=“Fedora”
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=rawhide
SUPPORT_END=2025-05-13
VARIANT=“MATE-Compiz”
VARIANT_ID=matecompiz
[root@fedora ~]#
Isn’t rawhide the “rolling” version? If so, it does not really count as 42, just what packages 42 is likely gonna have.
Very exciting. I’m hyped for the improvements to the touch screen keyboard. I have a surface that I usually use in tablet mode
I upgraded yesterday, thinking I may have not enough time to do it the rest of the year. It already works great in my AMD Ideapad.
I’ve been using it since the beta, some small hiccups with the new file picker (didn’t work with Steam initially) but everything is working nicely now. Only regression I’ve noticed is that with the new nautilus based file picker, you can’t drag a file from Nautilus to the file picker and have the file picker switch to that location. Hope that gets addressed soon.
I’m running the KDE spin, because, well, just because. It was a bit strange to think about it, like “Nautilus? I’m not having that problem. Wait a minute”. This year I stopped using GNOME, nothing specific about it, just wanted to try Plasma. Wanted to experience the old convenience of Linux to just switch to another DE with a couple of commands.
It’s a mastodon post where “Fedora” has a hashtag, and then it is followed by “Linux 41…”. The title should say “Fedora Linux 41 will be released on October 29”
Windows skipped only one number: Windows 9, but we skipped 35 releases. Obvious sign of Linux superiority.
