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Fedora, a volunteer project, currently has packages for four different current and future releases.

by gnufx 4y ago

rubyist5eva 4y ago
Which is crazy because Mozilla provides an official flatpak and Fedora has flatpak installed by default, but if Fedora developers want to be masochists they are free to do so.
- vetinari 4y ago
  Fedora build is slightly different that the upstream one; in a way that many FOSS users appreciate: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1518 https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1518 Additionally, it is being done by the same folks who drive development of linux-specific features (like wayland support or video decoding acceleration) anyway.
  - rstat1 4y ago
    Ah I always wondered why Firefox releases on my Fedora installs lagged behind official ones. Its so they can screw with it instead of just shipping what Mozilla released.
    - vetinari 4y ago
      The "screwing with it" does not take much time. Building the binaries themselves do. Mozilla does it few days in advance, so at the release they can push everything (and the binaries are available on the ftp.mozilla.org day before, uusually around 16:00 UTC). Other parties can start building their binaries only after the release. In case of Fedora, it is pushed into the testing stream and only after positive feedback (or few days) it is pushed into the release. If you want it earlier, you can get the tested builds from bodhi (bodhi.fedoraproject.org). You can also see the status of all builds there.
phatfish 4y ago
Humm, Fedora is the source for CentOS and RHEL. Surely most of the contributions to Fedora come from people employed by Red Hat?
- dralley 4y ago
  Martin Stranksy specifically does most of the Firefox packaging and additionally does a lot of upstream development work to keep Firefox running on Linux.
hsbauauvhabzb 4y ago
I use Ubuntu because no free packages are built into core repos, meaning I don’t need to add dubious repo sources. I don’t like nonfree software, but need it to use my nvidia backed laptop (the oss driver is useless). Sure the fedora community repo is probably okay, but they have no public statements on assurance or security, so who knows.

Fedora, a volunteer project, currently has packages for four different current and future releases.

by gnufx 4y ago

Fedora, a volunteer project, currently has packages for four different current and future releases.

Which is crazy because Mozilla provides an official flatpak and Fedora has flatpak installed by default, but if Fedora developers want to be masochists they are free to do so.

vetinari 4y ago
Fedora build is slightly different that the upstream one; in a way that many FOSS users appreciate: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1518 https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1518 Additionally, it is being done by the same folks who drive development of linux-specific features (like wayland support or video decoding acceleration) anyway.
- rstat1 4y ago
  Ah I always wondered why Firefox releases on my Fedora installs lagged behind official ones. Its so they can screw with it instead of just shipping what Mozilla released.
  - vetinari 4y ago
    The "screwing with it" does not take much time. Building the binaries themselves do. Mozilla does it few days in advance, so at the release they can push everything (and the binaries are available on the ftp.mozilla.org day before, uusually around 16:00 UTC). Other parties can start building their binaries only after the release. In case of Fedora, it is pushed into the testing stream and only after positive feedback (or few days) it is pushed into the release. If you want it earlier, you can get the tested builds from bodhi (bodhi.fedoraproject.org). You can also see the status of all builds there.

phatfish 4y ago

Humm, Fedora is the source for CentOS and RHEL. Surely most of the contributions to Fedora come from people employed by Red Hat?

dralley 4y ago
Martin Stranksy specifically does most of the Firefox packaging and additionally does a lot of upstream development work to keep Firefox running on Linux.

hsbauauvhabzb 4y ago

I use Ubuntu because no free packages are built into core repos, meaning I don’t need to add dubious repo sources. I don’t like nonfree software, but need it to use my nvidia backed laptop (the oss driver is useless). Sure the fedora community repo is probably okay, but they have no public statements on assurance or security, so who knows.