The forty second release of Fedora GNU/Linux is here. It's released on Wednesday, 16 April 2025 or near Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" release date. It is available in a lot of editions, mainly: Workstation, KDE Plasma Edition (new!), Server, IoT, Cloud and many more. We make a summary of the downloads for you below to mention only editions we believe most readers will be interested to try (and links to find the rest). Finally, congratulations to all computer users and thank you to Fedora developers. Happy downloading!
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Fedora Editions
We explain Fedora editions as the following. Please note that it is a little bit different to Ubuntu and The Official Flavors.
1. Workstation: desktop edition.
2. KDE Plasma Edition (new!): formerly a Spin, now recognized as an independent edition.
3. Server: standard server edition.
4. IoT: command line based Raspberry-pi-like embedded edition.
5. Cloud: advanced server or Virtual Machine Image edition.
6. CoreOS: advanced, automatically updating container tech based edition
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Fedora 42 Workstation
Download: Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso
Fedora 42 KDE Plasma Edition
Fedora KDE Plasma Edition is the new generation desktop edition made official in this release. It is powered with KDE Plasma, just like Kubuntu. Download this if you want an alternative to the GNOME desktop offered in the Workstation edition.
Download: Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso
Fedora 42 Server
Download: Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso
Fedora 42 IoT
Download: Fedora-IoT-ostree-42-20250414.0.x86_64.iso
Fedora 42 Cloud
Fedora 42 CoreOS
Download: https://fedoraproject.org/coreos/download/
Checksums
These are SHA256SUMs from ISO images mentioned above collected from Fedora 42 official download page. You should verify each of ISO image file you downloaded to match the official SHA256SUM (read pro tip below), otherwise it is not valid and you should re-download it.
# Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso: 2398523392 bytes
SHA256 (Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso) = 98958d80e8a80eabe61275337f969c8e2212adc3a223d9bbdab9411bb1c95cba
# Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-42-1.1.iso: 2925920256 bytes
SHA256 (Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-42-1.1.iso) = 7fee9ac23b932c6a8be36fc1e830e8bba5f83447b0f4c81fe2425620666a7043
# Fedora-IoT-ostree-42-20250414.0.x86_64.iso: 2768240640 bytes
SHA256 (Fedora-IoT-ostree-42-20250414.0.x86_64.iso) = 39530fba295c9843f6dc9729166a6cbe4f98730ac4e2638083f460e37c6ecb1f
Pro Tip!
Don't know how to verify checksums yet? Don't worry, please read our General Downloading Guide that includes the procedures in step by step you can follow. Good luck!
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Other Downloads
Fedora 42, other than those mentioned above, has even more editions namely:
1. Atomic Desktop (5 editions) Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway and Budgie Atomic
2. Spins (10 editions) spins.fedoraproject.org
3. Labs (12 editions) labs.fedoraproject.org
4. Torrents (all editions) torrent.fedoraproject.org
That can be selected and downloaded from www.fedoraproject.org -> top menu -> Get Fedora -> page will show them all or optionally you can scroll down to the bottom of the page -> there are columns of The Editions.
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Contributing to Fedora
Fedora Project invites everyone to join the development of Fedora together. Participating is fun! If you want to participate, you can get involved in any kind of participation you can including software development, packaging, testing, debugging, as well as art creativity, graphic designing, marketing etc. Visit their official Get Involved webpage to get started.
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About Fedora
Fedora, originated from Hawaii, United States, is a computer operating system and GNU/Linux distribution parent to Red Hat Enterprise OS. It is famous for its leadership in technological advancement and for its abundance on hardware platform supports as well as number of editions it offers. It runs on desktop, laptop, server, IoT devices, as well as virtual machines and advanced server systems (like AWS Cloud) and latest bleeding edge machines like IBM POWER. It is developed in public by the community via the internet and also real life conferences around the world. First released 2003 as Fedora Core version 1 and released in the 2025 as Fedora version 42. Visit the official website at https://fedoraproject.org.
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