35 Fedora Releases in 30 Minutes (plus Q&A)

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A rapid chronological run through 35 releases notes specific pivots: community-built AMD64 and yum (later yum -> dnf), merge of Core+Extras, introduction of live images and Spins, the formal changes/process for features, systemd/upstart transitions, skipping one release to recover release engineering, dropping 32-bit x86, Silverblue and ostree-style images, Matrix for chat, Lenovo shipping Fedora, and concrete metrics like multi-day release delays (196 days) and ~100 old systems still polling mirrors.

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1. 0:00Welcome to Fedora
2. 3:30Fedora Core 1 launch
3. 8:49Fedora Core 3 community
4. 10:32Yum revolution
5. 15:50Core and Extras merge
6. 17:15Fedora 8 community release
7. 20:46Fedora 10 principles
8. 24:58Fedora 17 systemd issues
9. 27:50Licensing changes
10. 30:20Fedora 19 Seth Vidal
11. 34:14Fedora 21 Editions
12. 38:26Fedora governance reform
13. 41:14Fedora Hubs challenges
14. 45:08Team burnout lessons
15. 47:16Fedora 28 mission
16. 50:51Fedora CoreOS & Silverblue
17. 52:15Lenovo adoption
18. 53:16Pandemic virtual conferences
19. 55:26Fedora 34 logo
20. 56:07Fedora 35 tools
21. 57:53Lessons and future
22. 59:42Q&A

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