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Fedora Design Suite 24 status

Bad news: Design Suite image for Fedora 24 will be unavailable as default on the official release due to several issues linked to the livemedia building system I have no control.

Possible workaround: on the slight good news, recent successful built image is available for testing although it did not make the cut for the general release. Unfortunately, due to a bug inside the packaging manager dnf, add-ons are missing for both Blender, Gimp and Inkscape. Worse, by the time I applied the workaround, the freeze status for Labs release was in effect with the migration of kickstart system to Pagure.
Alternate method will be to download and install Fedora Workstation then apply the command from the terminal
sudo dnf group install design-suite Difference is missing documentations related to Design Suite and supplemental wallpapers. The focus is now toward Fedora 25 where all unexpected kinks will be sorted out.

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