Aurora Stable Stream goes Fedora 41

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Aurora goes Fedora 41

Griaß eich (hello), star travellers.

(Griaß eich = Austrian dialect for hello :D)

Today, we promoted Aurora, based on the fresh and shiny Fedora 41, to the stable channel, which means you can all get a new and improved desktop experience right now. With the release based on Fedora 41, we introduce some cosmetic changes.

Aurora started out as a derivative of Bluefin that I made by cobbling together some Dockerfile knowledge. Some people say that there were attempts on a “Bluefin-KDE” Edition before, but all have failed to deliver. Over time I updated Aurora to keep up with changes that were made to Bluefin, until some magicians made magic happen and reworked the entire bluefin repo to accomodate Aurora and Bluefin together. Stars and dinosaurs, what a lovely and delicious combo!

Over time, we added the official wallpaper from Unsplash which was made Jonatan Pie as he was looking at an Aurora in the wild and the website came online. But there was always demand for more, specifically from my side.

So today, we introduce Aurora 41 with a new wallpaper and a new, refined logo. You’ll first notice the new logo when you upgrade and your start button changes if you’ve left it default. Your login, lock and desktop screen wallpaper will also change if you’re on our default Aurora theme.

You have a colorful option for your start button and a white one for those who have prefer a simpler one. Extra ones to be added soon! (If you have ideas, lmk :eyes:)

Aurora Desktop with new wallpaper
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The website also features this wallpaper and lots of refined elements compared to the previous version, extra cheekiness added.

The wallpaper perfectly captures what you should envision your computer capable of doing with Aurora as your desktop operating system: everything.

Only the sky is the limit.

Whats new in KDE on Fedora F41?

Truth be told, you won’t find revolutionary changes coming to you when you upgrade to our latest release. Fedora already released KDE 6.2.2 to Fedora 40 a couple of weeks ago, the same time as Fedora 41. Until KDE switches to a release cadence like GNOME, you will experience rolling updates of KDE versions across all Aurora channels.

So you might wonder, what’s new with the KDE 6.2 release?

Check out this article from the Fedora magazine: Whats new in Fedora KDE 41

And checkout the official KDE 6.2 release announcement: Whats new in KDE 6.2

Hint: if you use drawing tablets, you might be excited about this release!

For those wanting to install a fresh copy, freshly crafted ISOs are now live and ready for you to download on https://getaurora.dev.

Call for wallpaper ideas

Do you have some more ideas for wallpapers? Don’t hesistate to get them into this thread.

That’s it for now!

Signing off, servus and goodbye
- Niklas

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Dear Yubikey users: If you are using the Yubikey authenticator flatpak (com.yubico.yubioath) then the upgrade to Fedora 41 breaks the TOTP functionality, because the flatpak explicitly only supports pcsc-lite below 2.0.3.

Workaround: Download the newest authenticator from Yubico’s website as a tarball

The messages in journald that you see when you have this problem:

Nov 13 7:09:09 bluefin pcscd[2457]: 00614569 ../src/winscard_svc.c:404:ContextThread() Communication protocol mismatch!
Nov 13 7:09:09 bluefin pcscd[2457]: 00000008 ../src/winscard_svc.c:406:ContextThread() Client protocol is 4:4
Nov 13 7:09:09 bluefin pcscd[2457]: 00000002 ../src/winscard_svc.c:408:ContextThread() Server protocol is 4:5

I hope this helps some people to get into their accounts again.

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Hi, how do you change to the white start button? All I have is the multicolor one.

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Right click on the start button, then “Customize Start Button” or what is called. Then a window opens with the logo in a button. Click this, select all icons from the dropdown on the left side of the window and search for “distributor” in the search field.

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It’s actually “Configure Application Launcher” then click on the icon. I was looking for Aurora and start keywords, didn’t know it was called “distributor”. Found them!

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Thank you for this!

Been using Aurora-dx since the beginning of June on my home workstation (which doubles up as home server for my self hosted stuff), and couldn’t be happier.

Everything just works.

The new wallpaper is quite cool!

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Wallpaper idea:

A view from the perspective of an astronaut looking down at the north pole while there is an aurora going on, with like a space station also in view.

Trying to think of different ways to still have an aurora highlighted while not having another wallpaper that looks like stargazing.

Though I guess you can have lots of different settings taking place in the foreground with an aurora in the background…

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