• fosstodon Meta Instagram Twitter YouTube Chat Discourse RSS Feed 4 cool new projects to try in Copr for December 2025 Recent Posts Podman Test Days: Try the New Backend & Parallel Pulls Mrhbaan Syria! • Fedora now available in Syria Save the Date: Fedora Council Video Meeting on 2026 Strategy Summit Thisarticle seriestakes a closer look at interesting projects that recently landed in Copr. • Copris a build-system for anyone in the Fedora community. • It hosts thousands of projects with a wide variety of purposes, targeting diverse groups of users. • Some of them should never be installed by anyone, some are already transitioning into the official Fedora repositories, and others fall somewhere in between. • Copr allows you to install third-party software not found in the standard Fedora repositories, try nightly versions of your dependencies, use patched builds of your favourite tools to support some non-standard use-cases, and experiment freely.

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  • The Fedora community’s Copr repository has added four new packages for December 2025. Vicinae, a fast C++/Qt launcher inspired by Raycast, offers instant app, file, and clipboard search with extensions in TypeScript and is available for Fedora 42, 43 and Rawhide. UZDoom, a modern DOOM source port built on GZDoom, delivers hardware‑accelerated rendering and mod support while remaining compatible with classic WADs, also targeting Fedora 42‑43‑Rawhide. Plasma Panel Colorizer lets KDE Plasma users tweak panel appearance, blur, opacity and themes for Plasma 6, and is packaged for the same Fedora releases. Finally, sfizz‑ui provides a graphical front‑end for the sfizz SFZ sampler, supporting LV2 and VST3 plugins, and ships for Fedora 41‑43. Each project includes simple dnf copr enable and dnf install commands for quick setup.

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