We’re excited to announce that Blue95 Carlton, based on Fedora 43, is now generally available!

This post will go over some of the changes and improvements that Blue95 has made since the previous version Blue95 Topanga was introduced.

What’s New⌗

Blue95 Carlton is now based on Fedora 43, which brings some minor changes to an already stable base. It includes a new kernel version 6.17 and a bunch of other important but non-user-facing changes from Fedora 43.

Special thanks to Timothée Ravier for maintaining the upstream Fedora Xfce Atomic images and helping navigate a deprecation scare!

Clippy⌗

Clippy returns as a local LLM agent! Included by default in Blue95 is the wonderful Clippy project from Felix Rieseberg that allows you to run models like Gemma directly on your own hardware. Privacy is baked in by default: nothing leaves your machine and everything is executed locally.

PowerPoint Templates⌗

A new ujust recipe has been introduced to install PowerPoint templates from old products such as Office 97 that have been collected and hosted in the Internet Archive’s Microsoft Powerpoint Templates Pack.

ujust install-ppt-templates

The templates will be placed in ~/Documents/Presentations/Templates.

Install Now⌗

If you are currently using Blue95 Topanga, then you should automatically be upgraded on your next reboot. If you are using another Fedora Atomic image and want to try it out, you can rebase with

sudo bootc switch ghcr.io/winblues/blue95:latest

For other installation instructions, please visit the Install Guide.