Different variants adopted different technologies at different times, for instance Fedora Workstation was an early adopter of new technologies like Wayland and PipeWire. And that is not just because the feature set of GNOME is different from the feature set of XFCE, it is because each variant is able to set their own policies, their own configurations and do their own testing and QE. This means that while Fedora Workstation contains many of the same components of other things like the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop spin, the XFCE Desktop spin, the Cinnamon spin and so on, they are not the same thing.
#Fedora workstation vs kde plasma software#
Putting together an operating system like Fedora Workstation is more than just assembling a list of software components to include though, it is also about setting policies, default configurations, testing and QE and marketing. But all them should be considered separate efforts built using a shared set of building blocks. That means that Fedora Workstation isn’t ‘Fedora’ it is something created by the Fedora community alongside a lot of other projects like Fedora Server, Silverblue and Fedora spins like Fedora KDE and Fedora Kinoite. As part of that bigger community you have a lot of working groups and special interest groups working to build something with those building blocks and Fedora Workstation is the most popular thing being built from those building blocks.
Think of the Fedora community a bit like a big group of people providing well tested and maintained building blocks to be used to build operating systems and applications.
#Fedora workstation vs kde plasma update#
Let me start by saying that I now also have a Mastodon account, so please follow me on for news and updates around Fedora Workstation, PipeWire, Wayland, LVFS and Linux in general.īefore I start with the general development update I want to mention something I mentioned quite a few times before and that is the confusion I often find people have about what is Fedora and what is Fedora Workstation.įedora is our overall open source project and community working on packaging components and software for the various outputs that the Fedora community delivers.
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