Fedora 33 Upgrades Fedora IoT to an Official Spin, Compatible with the Raspberry Pi and More
Fedora IoT is now an official spin, while Fedora 33 itself brings a range of improvements including a switch to BTRFS as the default FS.
A beta release of the Fedora 33 Linux distribution is now available, upgrading the Fedora Internet of Things (IoT) edition to fully-supported status — meaning official compatibility with the Raspberry Pi and other single-board computer (SBC) systems.
Scheduled for full release in October and available in public beta now, Fedora 33 brings a number of key changes — including an upgrade to the Linux 5.8 kernel, a switch to BTRFS as the default file system, an upgrade for the Workstation release to GNOME 3.38, and new versions various packages including popular programming environments.
The biggest change, though, comes in an upgrade in status for Fedora IoT, the spin aimed at the Internet of Things and edge devices. While Fedora 32 was available in a Fedora IoT spin, it was never an officially-supported release; Fedora 33 changes that, bringing official support for Fedora IoT builds in aarch64, armhfp, and x86_64 variants compatible with a number of single-board computer systems - including the popular and low-cost Raspberry Pi range.
"Geared towards edge devices, Fedora IoT supports a range of hardware platforms based on x86_64 and aarch64, including Raspberry Pi and Pine64, with the intent of delivering a smaller footprint operating system for space- and compute-constrained environments," distribution maintainer Red Hat explains. "Based on OSTee technology for safer updates and rollbacks, Fedora IoT also includes Platform AbstRaction for SECurity (PARSEC), an open source initiative that aims to provide a common, hardware-agnostic API for hardware security and cryptographic services."
More details on the release can be found on the RedHat blog; Fedora 32 IoT and the Fedora 33 IoT beta can be downloaded from the dedicated microsite.
