RALEIGH — The Fedora Challenge and Slimbook have teamed as much as ship the Fedora Slimbook, a modern and highly effective ultrabook that’s tailored for Linux fans. Slimbook, recognized for its dedication to high quality and help for the Linux group, has mixed its trendy design with Fedora’s cutting-edge software program to create a laptop computer like no different.
In line with Matthew Miller, the Fedora Challenge Chief, Supervisor and Distinguished Engineer at Pink Hat, Slimbook – which is predicated in Spain – initiated the challenge.
“They’ve been providing a Fedora Linux choice for a number of years, and needed to create {hardware} that may really feel extra specialised to Fedora.”
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Certainly, the Fedora Slimbook comes with spectacular options, together with a 16″ 3K show, an Intel Core i7 processor, and as much as 64GB of RAM. It additionally boasts a long-lasting battery and weighs just one.5 kg (3.3lbs), making it pleasant for these on the go.
Miller did confirmed there are not any plans for a smaller, 14″ model, a minimum of not for the time being. “However,” he added, “we’ll see!”
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Fedora Slimbook Specs
- 16” 16:10 sRGB 99%
- 3K show 90Hz
- Intel® Core™ i7-12700H 20 threads
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti
- As much as 64GB RAM
- As much as 4TB Nvme SSD
- 82WH battery
- 1.5 kg weight
- Price: 1799,00 € (~$1,895)
Decreasing Limitations
What units the Fedora Slimbook aside is its pre-installed Fedora software program, which implies customers will get a seamless expertise proper out of the field.
“Putting in Linux distributions could be a daunting process and may stand in the way in which of people adopting open supply software program,” mentioned Miller within the preliminary press launch. “Pink Hat is worked up to see open supply communities and {hardware} distributors working collectively to make open supply software program extra accessible.”
Miller was fast to notice that Pink Hat doesn’t obtain any direct revenue from something associated to Fedora – together with this partnership.
As an alternative, in a nod to the significance of open supply, Slimbook will likely be donating 3% of the income from every Fedora Slimbook sale to the GNOME Basis. [“The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that believes in a world where everyone is empowered by technology they can trust. We do this by building a diverse and sustainable free software personal computing ecosystem,” it says. From TechTarget: “GNU Network Object Model Environment, pronounced gah-NOHM) is a graphical user interface (GUI) and set of computer desktop applications for users of the Linux operating system.”]
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Fedora Prospects
The Fedora Challenge is a worldwide open-source group supported by Raleigh’s personal Pink Hat. Began in 2002, the Fedora Challenge offers upstream or leading edge supply for Pink Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and in addition the open-source CentOS Stream.
As for future Fedora partnerships, Miller confessed that others may be to return.
“We’re speaking with some others and are excited concerning the potentialities. We’ve relationships with various {hardware} producers whose merchandise would play properly with Fedora. I feel they might all serve totally different potential Fedora customers, and I’d like to hold increasing till there’s an choice that’s proper for everybody.”
