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An open-source AI chat tool for Fedora users
by Facha Nf 04 Sep '26

04 Sep '26

Hello Fedora Join community, I'm a Fedora user and I wanted to introduce a free, open-source AI chat tool called Ptero (https://ptero.pro/) that I've been working on. It's a fully auditable (GPL v2) AI interface that runs in your browser, with conversations stored locally, not on servers. No signup required, just useful AI without the paywalls. Since this community is for people exploring Fedora and open-source, I thought it might be of interest. I'd also love feedback from anyone who wants to try it or even contribute—the code is available at https://github.com/aminkheddache-dotcom/Ptero. Best regards, Fach

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Introduction - Brian
by Bri Mo 30 Aug '26

30 Aug '26

Hello everyone! 👋 Applied AI/ML engineer, OSINT enthusiast, ex-distro-hopper — now on Silverblue 44 Hi all! I work in applied AI/ML research engineering — I touch the whole stack (models, tooling, infrastructure, benchmarking, dataset pipelines), but I always find my way back to the data. Python is my home turf, whether it's ETL, experiment harnesses, or the glue code in between. Outside of ML work, I'm deeply into OSINT — I love the investigative side of things: following data trails, correlating sources, and reconstructing what actually happened from fragments. Between that and ML, my whole life is basically "take something messy and complex, and make it make sense." Distro history: Arch, Pop!_OS, and assorted others over the years. Silverblue 44 is what finally stuck — the atomic model clicked for me the same way reproducible environments did for my Python projects. I run a container-first workflow: distrobox "lanes" for model benchmarking, dataset work, and my OSINT tooling (keeping investigation toolchains isolated from each other is honestly a nice security hygiene bonus too). Lately I've been going underneath distrobox into rootless Podman internals — user namespaces, subuid mappings, storage, networking. Untangling complex systems until they're obvious is genuinely my favorite thing to do.

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Introduction - Vivek Denny
by Vivek Denny 28 Jul '26

28 Jul '26

Hi, I'm Vivek Denny and I'm excited to join the Fedora community. I've been using Linux (Ubuntu) for a while, prefer it to windows for development. Always wanted to support open source instead of just using it. Background: Around 2.5yoe in backend/cloud and completed a masters in cs. Primary languages: C/C++, Go, Python, Ruby Interests: Low level systems, networks, graphics May not know everything but more than willing to learn. Best regards, Vivek

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Hello world!
by Jesus De Los Reyes Larraga 17 Jul '26

17 Jul '26

Hey everyone and nice to meet you, I'm Jesus De Los Reyes, a QA-turned-platform engineer that loves engineering challenges, cats, and video games. It was this last interest that eventually brought me here, as I installed fedora in my main PC in order to play video games without bloatware, a fresh start, and to make use of my free time. This will also be my first time contributing to Open Source even though I've been using it for years. When it comes to software, because of my background in platform/DevOps roles I'm a jack of all trades, I've evaluated and used a wide variety of commercially available tools and open source as well, and I'd like to use that expertise to contribute to the ecosystem. My first language is Spanish, close second is English and I'm learning German for work, I use Fedora as my main OS and distro. When it comes to technology I'm familiar with git, command lines, general packaging, Go, Python and TS in that order, because of my experience as a QA I'm proficient in both manual and automated testing, I find it boring if I'm completely honest but as long as it helps I'm happy to do so, mainly Selenium and Playwright using Python. My main strength is definitely infrastructure, both commercial like AWS and Azure and bare-metal open source only, I've got a homelab running Ubuntu server that I use to practice and setup whatever is needed around the house or by friends. Not very familiar with mailing lists so sorry if it's a bit long, you can find me in matrix as @jesusdelosreyes:matrix.org, I've had brief experience moderating and administering forums as part of my video game enthusiast background. Thanks for your time! Have a great day, Jesus De Los Reyes

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Hello
by Philip Czarnik 16 Jul '26

16 Jul '26

Hey, I'm Philip from Kassel, Germany and I want to introduce myself. I have no previous experience with FOSS communities or other online communities or forums, but I like the idea of open source and contributing. At the same time, I can improve my dev skills and practice my English. I recently finished my apprenticeship as a software developer, so I already have some professional dev experience. At work, we use Angular, Java, Python, C/C++, and GitLab. We are working with embedded systems that run Linux. So the command line is my friend as well. But to be honest, I have entry- to intermediate-level skills in these technologies. After getting tired of Windows, I installed Fedora KDE on my desktop, and I am happy about this decision. I like the clean look and the responsiveness of the OS. I also have a background in carpentry, so I have some experience in CAD, CNC programming, and manufacturing. At the beginning, I would say I can spend about 2–4 hours volunteering. Maybe I can start with small tasks and see how it goes.

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Introduction
by ikar＠keemail.me 12 Jul '26

12 Jul '26

Hi, I'm Ikar, a software engineer and long-time Linux user. I've mainly used Debian and Arch over the years, and recently switched to Fedora Asahi as my daily driver. I work mostly with Java/Spring Boot professionally, but I'm also comfortable with Python, C, and have some experience with Rust. I'm generally language-agnostic and not particularly attached to any one language; I enjoy learning and using whatever tools are best suited for the problem. This is my first time contributing to a FOSS project, and also my first time using a mailing list. I don't have a fixed number of hours, but I should be able to contribute around 5 hours a week, potentially more when I have additional free time.

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self introduction
by mohab soliman 10 Jul '26

10 Jul '26

Greetings Everyone, I'm a mechatronics engineer from Egypt, passionate about computer science, philosophy, video games and music. I have worked in a robotics , embedded systems, industrial automation and currently in the field service engineering. My skills involve programming microcontrollers like stm and AVR in addition to PLCs, customizing marlin 3d printer firmware, video game making with unity and C# and so on. This is my first time participating in open source but I have made some courses, code and writings under the CC license. I imagine that after some time I'd be contributing to the engineering and gaming parts of fedora whether its packages or spins like fedora robotics or games. I currently use Fedora KDE as my main OS after distro hopping for a couple of years with dual booting windows, I like the project philosophy and am looking forward to contributing to it. My free time is usually like one week per month or two weeks. That's when I could spend like 3 hours each day contributing to the project then I'll stop as my work usually makes me travel to remote areas for a couple of weeks. Then when I returned I could continue.

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Introduction (Wall of text incoming!)
by Raul Perez 09 Jul '26

09 Jul '26

Hi everyone! Wall of text incoming! I'm Raúl (or my personal brand that I use for all things engineering Florian Rand, long story), a software engineer from Spain, and I'm excited to finally become part of the Fedora community. I've been using Linux for almost twenty years. I first discovered it in high school with Slackware, and it completely changed how I looked at computers. I remember buying a book about C programming on Unix systems just so I could better understand what was happening under the hood. I spent countless hours experimenting with things like libpcap, rebuilding tools such as tcpdump, and generally taking things apart to see how they worked. Since then Linux has been my primary operating system. Over the years I've used Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE, and although Ubuntu is currently my daily workstation, I still use Fedora extensively for my development containers and have spent quite a bit of time running Silverblue. Somewhere at home I even have a couple of old Red Hat CDs that I've never been able to throw away. Although I've relied on open source software for most of my career, my contributions have mostly been small and practical: reporting bugs, helping with translations, documentation improvements, and submitting patches that solved problems I encountered mysel. Professionally, I started as a Linux systems administrator. One of my first self-appointed projects was converting a nearly 100-page handwritten notebook of operational procedures into reusable shell scripts. Nobody asked me to do it—I simply got tired of repeatedly looking things up and wanted to make the work easier for everyone. Looking back, that probably says a lot about how I approach engineering. After several years in systems administration I took an unexpected detour into graphic design and digital production, working in the automotive industry. Even then I found myself gravitating back toward technical problems: helping with render farms, improving automation scripts, and solving infrastructure issues. Eventually I returned to software engineering full time. Today I've worked across frontend and backend development, internal tooling, application modernization, CI/CD, containers, and developer experience. I've come to realize that what I enjoy most isn't any particular language or framework—it's understanding systems, removing unnecessary complexity, and making other people's work a little easier. The problems that attract me most are usually the ones everyone has learned to work around until someone finally decides to fix them properly. Technically I'm comfortable with Linux, Git, shell scripting, containers (especially Podman), JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C, Go, Ansible, CI/CD, and general software engineering. I've also done RPM and DEB packaging in the past, although I'd definitely appreciate a refresher. Outside of work I spend far too much time tinkering with my homelab. I recently simplified it from a fairly involved Proxmox setup to a much simpler Podman + systemd Quadlets + Cockpit setup, and I'm irrationally happy with that decision. Away from the keyboard I enjoy running, science fiction, classical singing, and spending time with my cats. As for Fedora, it feels like a natural place to contribute. I've admired the engineering culture around Fedora and Red Hat for many years—particularly the emphasis on building in the open and contributing work upstream—and I'd like to become part of that ecosystem. My plan is to start with small contributions, learn how the community works, and hopefully grow into taking on larger responsibilities over time. I'm looking forward to meeting you all and learning where I can best contribute.

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Introduction
by Joshua Thomas 22 Jun '26

22 Jun '26

Hello everyone, My name is Joshua Thomas. I’m a Computer Science student from the UK, currently working through a career pivot into tech after 11 years in the railway industry. After a lot of distro-hopping, Fedora KDE has become my permanent daily driver, and I’d love to start contributing to it. Coming from the railways, my head is pretty hardwired for strict standard operating procedures and safety specs, which makes QA feel like the most natural place for me to start. On the technical side, I'm very comfortable in a terminal; I run a local Proxmox homelab (managing LXCs, Python automation, and local LLMs), and I’m levelling up my C++ alongside my degree. To hit the ground running, I’ve carved out a dedicated hypervisor environment on my server specifically for spinning up Rawhide / Branched test builds, so I am fully prepared to break things without hurting my daily driver. I’m working my way through the QA Wiki, but I'd love a quick bit of veteran advice: what is the team's most tedious bottleneck right now that a newcomer could help clear? Point me toward a pile of low-priority validation tasks, and I’ll get to work. Looking forward to working with you all, Joshua.

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Introduction: Henry (henrymmey / HenryMM) – Newcomer interested in infrastructure and development
by HenryMM 13 Jun '26

13 Jun '26

Resending from my subscribed address – apologies for the duplicate if both go through.---Hi everyone,My name is Henry, and I'm a teenager from Germany. I'm really excited about getting involved with the Fedora Project and wanted to introduce myself to the community. Online, I am usually known as henrymmey or HenryMM.I'm still a beginner and definitely not a pro yet, but I'm eager to learn and contribute where I can.To answer the question of how I learned about Fedora: About two or three years ago, I decided to learn Linux. I started out with Ubuntu, but after looking into other options, I quickly realized that Fedora was just way better for me and became my distro of choice. After a few months that became my main OS. Around one and a half years ago, I started getting deeper into coding and general infrastructure management. That journey naturally brought me to my current interest: Linux development.When it comes to building things, I want to be honest: I don't consider myself a traditional coder who writes complex software from scratch. Instead, I utilize AI tools to assist me. However, I'm not just a "vibe coder" who blindly copy-pastes 20 prompts in a row. I actively think through the architecture, understand the logic behind the code, and manually modify and tweak a lot of it myself to make it fit.That being said, I actually realize that pure coding is less fun for me compared to managing infrastructure, systems, and exploring how everything connects. I love tinkering with setups and system configurations.Since I'm not sure exactly which area of Fedora I'd be most useful in, I would appreciate some help clarifying that.If you want to check out what I am working on, you can find my profiles here:- Website: https://henrymeyer.de/- GitHub: https://github.com/henrymmeyBest regards,HenryMM

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