Fedora IoT is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed as a foundation for Internet of Things and edge computing deployments.
Rather than targeting conventional desktop use, it provides an image-based operating system for devices running workloads outside traditional data centres. The base system is managed using rpm-ostree, allowing operating-system changes to be deployed transactionally and rolled back if necessary.
Fedora IoT is intended to provide a relatively small, reliable host operating system while applications and services can be deployed using containers.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses rpm-ostree to provide image-based, transactional operating-system updates.
- Supports rollback to an earlier deployment if an update causes problems.
- Includes Podman for running and managing OCI containers.
- Uses systemd for service and system management.
- Designed for Internet of Things, edge computing and device deployments.
- Offers raw disk images, an OSTree installer and Simplified Provisioner images.
- Supports package layering with rpm-ostree when additional host packages are required.
- Includes SELinux as part of Fedora’s security infrastructure.
- Uses greenboot to provide health checking around system updates and boot processes.
- Can be rebased between Fedora IoT releases without performing a conventional reinstall.
- Developed by the Fedora IoT Working Group as an official Fedora Edition.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | - |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | RPM |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | x86_64, aarch64 |
| Home Page: | fedoraproject.org/iot |
| Developer: | Fedora IoT Working Group |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distributions and Open Source Operating Systems. |
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