Fedora 36 beta released [LWN.net]

The Fedora 36 beta release has been announced.

Fedora 36 Workstation Beta includes GNOME 42, the newest release of the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME 42 includes a global dark style UI setting. It also has a redesigned screenshot tool. And many core GNOME apps have been ported to the latest version of the GTK toolkit, providing improved performance and a modern look.

If all goes well, the final Fedora 36 release will happen at the end of April.

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Fedora 36 beta released

Posted Mar 31, 2022 13:45 UTC (Thu) by aponomarenko (guest, #144327) [Link] (3 responses)

Contributing to https://github.com/linuxhw/TestCoverage/tree/main/Dist/Fe...

sudo dnf install hw-probe
sudo -E hw-probe -all -upload

Fedora 36 beta released

Posted Mar 31, 2022 16:15 UTC (Thu) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (2 responses)

What all does this command upload?

Fedora 36 beta released

Posted Mar 31, 2022 18:10 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

Poking around, it appears to be uploading to https://linux-hardware.org/?view=timeline which doesn't any TOS or privacy policy.

Fedora 36 beta released

Posted Apr 1, 2022 5:28 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

There is some privacy info here:

https://linux-hardware.org/?view=howto

Private information (including the username, machine's hostname, IP addresses, MAC addresses, UUIDs and serial numbers) is NOT uploaded to the database.

The tool uploads 32-byte prefix of salted SHA512 hash of MAC addresses and serial numbers to properly identify unique computers and hard drives. UUIDs are decorated in the same way, but formatted like regular UUIDs in order to save readability of logs. All the data is uploaded securely via HTTPS.