Applications July 22, 2026 · 14:11 Kumaran Kumarathurai

Fedora

Productivity

Coding

Video and graphics

System and file repair

sudo fsck -f /dev/sdXN
sudo dnf distro-sync
sudo rpm --rebuilddb
sudo kill -9 $(pgrep program)

fsck must run on an unmounted partition, never on the active root filesystem while the system is running.

Network and connectivity

sudo resolvectl flush-caches
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
ping google.com

System information

hostnamectl
sudo dmidecode -s system-serial-number

Advanced tools

sudo dnf autoremove && sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf offline-upgrade clean
sudo systemctl restart dnf5daemon-server
sudo pkcon refresh force
sudo reboot

Application administration

Clear terminal history

cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history && history -c && exit

Clear GNOME Software and DNF caches

flatpak uninstall --unused
flatpak repair
flatpak update --appstream
flatpak pin --remove <runtime-id>
flatpak pin
sudo rm -rf /var/cache/PackageKit/*
rm -rf ~/.cache/*
rm -fr ~/.cache/gnome-software
sudo rm -fr /var/cache/dnf/*
sudo dnf makecache
sudo pkcon refresh force
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf upgrade --best --allowerasing
flatpak update -y
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh && flatpak update -y

Clearing cache folders forces some apps to rebuild indexes or thumbnails on next launch. This is not harmful to data, only slightly slower on first use.

Firewall

Fedora uses firewalld by default.

sudo firewall-cmd --state
sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
sudo firewall-cmd --list-all

Copying files via terminal

cp file.txt ~/Backup/
rsync -av Source/ Destination/
scp file.txt user@host:/path/

Disk usage and storage

df -h for total and free space per filesystem
du -sh * to see folder sizes in the current directory

Scheduled tasks

crontab -e for traditional cron-style scheduling
systemctl list-timers to view active systemd timers

Compression and archiving

zip -r archive.zip folder/ and unzip archive.zip
tar -czvf archive.tar.gz folder/ and tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz

History

1993
Marc Ewing creates his own Linux distribution while at Carnegie Mellon, nicknamed "Red Hat Linux" after a red cap he wore; the same year Bob Young founds ACC Corp, selling Linux software and accessories.
1995
Young and Ewing merge their companies into Red Hat Software, and Red Hat Linux 1.0 ships.
2002
Warren Togami starts the volunteer-run Fedora Linux project as a repository of extra packages for Red Hat Linux.
2003
Red Hat discontinues its consumer Red Hat Linux line and merges it with the Fedora Linux project to form the community-driven Fedora Project. Fedora Core 1 ships on 6 November as the first official release.
2007
Fedora 7 drops "Core" from the name, merging the Core and Extras repositories into a single, unified Fedora.
2014
The Fedora.next initiative reorganizes the distribution into Workstation, Server, and Cloud editions built from a shared base.
Today
Fedora remains Red Hat's upstream testbed for new technology, shipping GNOME, systemd, Wayland, and PipeWire early before they land in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.