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# Meet Fedora Kinoite's Secret New Spins
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/new-fedora-kinoite-variants/
- Published: 2023-01-27T10:24:46.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-27T10:24:46.000Z
- Description: Unofficial Fedora Kinoite variants were introduced for a particular purpose.
- Author: Sourav Rudra
- Tags: Development Updates, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15

Fedora Kinoite is a variant of the Fedora KDE spin that has an immutable design. It is primarily aimed towards running containerized applications and to do container-based software development.

Now, two new unofficial variants **Kinoite Nightly** and **Kinoite Beta** have landed that feature a mix of different KDE packages.

These were launched to provide a hassle-free testing experience for everyone, without them having to package, compile or even have prior development knowledge.

## Unofficial Fedora Kinoite Nightly and Beta

![kinoite beta](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/01/kinoite_beta.png)

Kinoite Beta

**What is Kinoite Nightly?:** This release consists of nightly packages of KDE software (Plasma and core apps) on top of a latest stable build of Fedora.

It will be built daily with new updates, similar to daily builds, and a potential alternative to KDE Neon dev/unstable edition.

**What is Kinoite Beta?:** This release will also be based on a stable build of Fedora. But, with beta packages of KDE Plasma and its apps.

🗒️

Currently, Kinoite Beta is based on the recently released [KDE Plasma 5.27 Beta](https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.26.90/?ref=itsfoss.com).

Compared to the Nightly build, the beta variant will be built and made available only when there is an ongoing KDE Plasma Beta testing phase.

## How to Try It

Before you start, remember that these are all pre-release software that might contain plenty of bugs. Only use these after you have backed up all of your existing data.

Both of these builds have been made available via a repo on [Quay.io](https://quay.io/?ref=itsfoss.com).

- [Kinoite Nightly](https://quay.io/repository/fedora-ostree-desktops/kinoite-nightly?tab=tags&ref=itsfoss.com) (kinoite-nightly repository on Quay.io)
- [Kinoite Beta](https://quay.io/repository/fedora-ostree-desktops/kinoite-beta?tab=tags&ref=itsfoss.com) (kinoite-nightly repository on Quay.io).

As no installation ISOs or pre-installed images are available, you must follow a few steps to use these builds.

1. Ensure that you have the latest [Fedora Kinoite](https://kinoite.fedoraproject.org/download/?ref=itsfoss.com) release installed.
2. Update your system to the latest version by executing the following command and reboot:

```
$ sudo rpm-ostree update --reboot
```

3\. Pin the current deployment, so that you can roll back to it if something goes wrong:

```
$ sudo ostree admin pin 0
```

4\. Now, it is time to choose between Kinoite Knightly or Kinoite Beta:

```
# For Kinoite Nightly
$ sudo rpm-ostree rebase --reboot \
    ostree-unverified-registry:quay.io/fedora-ostree-desktops/kinoite-nightly

# For Kinoite Beta
$ sudo rpm-ostree rebase --reboot \
    ostree-unverified-registry:quay.io/fedora-ostree-desktops/kinoite-beta
```

5\. Start using the build and begin testing!

If you want to test a particular build version, you might want to explore more technical details in the [announcement post](https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2023/01/20/introducing-kinoite-nightly-beta/?ref=itsfoss.com).