Fedora-V Force (FVF)
Vendor derivative
Distribution
Good for newcomers
Bottom line
FVF is a RISC-V image rebuilt from Fedora sources by a separate team, not an official Fedora release. It covers more boards than the official SIG images, so it is the practical pick when you want a Fedora userland that boots out of the box.
- Based on
- Fedora
- Upstream
- Fedora-V Force is an independent team/community project that compiles its own riscv64 builds from Fedora 36 through rawhide and adapts them to boards; its site says it is "independently compiling releases from Fedora 36 to rawhide", and it has no affiliation with Fedora's official release process.
- Versions
- Fedora 36 → rawhide (built independently, covering several Fedora releases)
- Doc languages
- en / zh
- Checked
- 2026-11-01
Boards
- QEMU virt (virtual machine) Community FVF claims support for mainstream RISC-V boards; not verified board by board
- SiFive HiFive Unmatched Community As above; not verified board by board
- StarFive VisionFive 2 Community As above; not verified board by board
- LicheePi 4A Community As above; not verified board by board
- Milk-V Meles Community As above; not verified board by board
- SpacemiT K3 (Pico-ITX / CoM260) Community As above; not verified board by board
- Zhihe A210 (XuanTie MelonPi dev board) Community As above; not verified board by board
- Canaan K230 (Kendryte K230 / CanMV-K230) Community As above; not verified board by board
- Milk-V Megrez (ESWIN EIC7700X) Community As above; not verified board by board
- Milk-V Titan (UltraRISC DP1000) Community As above; not verified board by board
- Milk-V Pioneer (SG2042, server-oriented) Community As above; not verified board by board
- Orange Pi RV2 (Ky X1) Community As above; not verified board by board
- Banana Pi BPI-F3 (SpacemiT K1) Community As above; not verified board by board
Download
Docs and videos
Pitfalls
- Images are built independently by the community, not through Fedora's signing/release process, and versions drift from upstream Fedora
- The mirror is a JS single-page app, so scripts can't scrape the board list; pick your board by hand on the page
Sources4
The full source list and how each claim is judged: Sources