We have been busy working on our first deliverable so this post is a little overdue. Since we now have quite a bit of software for computational neuroscience available to use in NeuroFedora, the obvious next step was to try and make this even more easily available to users.

A Fedora 31 based Comp Neuro ISO image is now ready, you can get it here. For more information on what this contains, and how it is created, read on.

Fedora Community deliverables The Fedora community generates a bunch of deliverables for users. The main ones, of course, are the primary editions: the workstation, the server edition, CoreOS, Silverblue, IoT. They can all be obtained from the community website at https://getfedora.org. All of these are ready to use and have gone through a thorough development cycle that includes a stringent Quality Assurance (QA) cycle. These are "live", so they can either either be used directly off the ISO image without having to install them, or they can be used to install a Fedora based system. Them being "live" makes them a great tool for temporary work---grab an ISO, start up a virtual machine, use Fedora to do your work, destroy the virtual machine when done. While these are the main deliverables, the Fedora community also generates other media for our diverse user base. These are classified as Spins and Labs. While the Workstation is based on the GNOME desktop environment, Spins provide Fedora users other desktop environment based images: KDE, LXQT, XFCE, Mate, Cinnamon, Sugar on a stick (SAOS). Labs are similar, but instead of focussing on the desktop environment, they include customised sets of software required for particular purposes: Astronomy, Design, Python, Security, Robotics.

The Fedora Community Change Process We therefore, submitted a community change proposal to permit us to generate another Fedora Lab image, one for computational neuroscience. You can read the proposal here. The Changes process allows community members to propose new changes to aid the community. Depending on their scope, they can either be "System wide" or "Self Contained" changes. The community discussed our proposal, and the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCO) has approved it as a change for the Fedora 32 release. So, from Fedora 32 onwards, a Comp Neuro Lab image will be generated by the Fedora Release Engineering Team as an official Fedora community deliverable, and it will feature on the Fedora Labs website.