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#384 What’s new for Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 42
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Article Summary:
A quick description of the recent events in the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition, followed by highlights of several important upgrades and additions in Fedora 42 - both across Fedora, and uniquely in Fedora KDE

Article Description:
Below are some summary thoughts from Neal and the KDE SIG that I would be working to turn into an article:

Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop-specific updates:

  • Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop is now an Edition provided by the KDE SIG through the Personal Systems WG! We’ll describe the changes occurring as a result of Changes/Promote KDE Plasma Desktop variant to Edition - Fedora Project Wiki

  • Fedora KDE is now supported on Power Systems (ppc64le), with the full KDE stack (including KDE PIM) available on Power, and installable live images for OpenPOWER based systems like the Talos Workstation from Raptor Systems. *to include note that it’s note release-blocking, community help welcome

  • Support for x86 emulation powered by FEX is integrated into Fedora KDE, expanding the usability of Fedora KDE on AArch64 by enabling x86_64 applications to work on ARM using a Fedora FEX rootfs image. This is particularly optimized for running Windows or Steam applications. (change document about this: Changes/FEX - Fedora Project Wiki )

  • Fedora KDE 42 ships with KDE Plasma 6.3.4, including new features that I’ll summarize from documents like Plasma 6.3 - KDE Community

Relevant updates for all Fedora 42 editions:

Wrap-up to include reference to the new edition website, kde.fedoraproject.org

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/whats-new-for-fedora-kde-plasma-desktop-42/148576

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Hi - I have a WordPress preview link here, any feedback would be awesome - thanks!

https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=41933&preview=true&preview_id=41933

I can't view the preview, can someone give me access?

Sorry, I might have copied the wrong link - does this one work? https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=41933&preview=1&_ppp=f3652fe785

Yup that works.

@sharkcz -> Dan Horák

as contributors @alyssa, @dcavalca, and @ngompa -> as contributors Alyssa Rosenzweig, Davide Cavalca, and Neal Gompa

Note that @dcavalca is planning on an article to talk about FEX, we may want to cross-link that.

Thanks, choosing names over handles makes sense there. Updated!

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@johnandmegh I will review/edit the article further but the image you have included for the feature image is the wrong size. Other sites pick up the image and if it does not conform to 1890x800px it causes them heart-burn.

Can you modify the image or perhaps find another that will fit that size, please?

Sorry about that! I uploaded a 1890x800 file to WordPress and will swap that out when editing is open again :-)

I'm out of the editor now, @johnandmegh Sorry to be in your way.

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You're the one helping me out, sorry I messed up the image initially - a version with the correct dimensions should set there now.

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@johnandmegh That looks good. I'm done with the minimal editing. Mostly this was reducing passive voice and sentence length.

I believe it is ready for publication on 15 April.

Thanks for you contribution to the Fedora Magazine.

FYI, the article in #385 should be linked to in this article too in the section about FEX. Thanks!

It looks like I don't have access to edit the article and add that link directly in WordPress, maybe because it's in a "Published" status now - is that something that an admin could help with?

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the article in #385 should be linked to in this article too in the section about FEX.

I've added the requested link.

Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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