Fedora is a community distribution sponsored by Red Hat, following an “upstream-first” strategy — all new features debut in Fedora first, and after stabilization, they make their way into RHEL. The latest stable release is Fedora 42 (Workstation defaults to GNOME desktop).
Official Download Page
Workstation (Desktop Edition)
| Version | Size |
|---|---|
| Fedora 42 Workstation Live (desktop experience) | ~2.2 GB |
| Fedora 42 Workstation ISO (full packages) | — |
Spins (Community Flavors)
| Flavor | Desktop Environment | Download Directory |
|---|---|---|
| KDE Plasma | KDE | MIT mirror releases/42/Spins/x86_64/iso/ |
| Xfce | Xfce | Same directory |
| LXQt | LXQt | Same directory |
| MATE-Compiz | MATE | Same directory |
Server / IoT Editions
| Version | Use Case |
|---|---|
| Server | Servers |
| IoT | Embedded / Edge devices |
China Mirrors
USTC: https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/fedora/linux/releases/42/
Fudan University: https://mirrors.fudan.edu.cn/fedora/linux/releases/42/
Tencent Cloud: https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/fedora/linux/releases/42/
Alibaba Cloud: https://mirrors.aliyun.com/fedora/linux/releases/42/
Offline Incremental Images (Fedora Respins)
The Fedora Respins SIG periodically publishes pre-updated Live ISOs, so the desktop version has almost no additional updates on first boot.
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respis/
What’s New in Fedora 42
GNOME 48 ships by default with Fedora 42, Linux 6.18 series kernel, introduces the new DNF 5 package manager (significantly faster).
Creating a Bootable USB
On Linux, use cp or cat to write:
sudo cp Fedora-Workstation-Live-42-1.1.x86_64.iso /dev/sdX
syncOn Windows, use Fedora Media Writer (official tool) or Rufus.
Verify ISO
wget https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/fedora/linux/releases/42/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Workstation-42-1.1-x86_64-CHECKSUM
sha256sum -c Fedora-Workstation-42-1.1-x86_64-CHECKSUM
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