I ended up using Atom on my windows pc and was able to talk on the port no problem. I'm not sure why the port was closed on the fedora pc. Hopefully this helps someone in their setup.

@aventri My guess is that you haven't installed the drivers to allow you PC to see the Expansion Board com port? When I was starting with GPY, I found this tutorial from Core Electronics in Australia, to be very helpful.. https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/pycom-gpy-getting-started.html It is Windows centric, but there are others to be found as well

@jimmie glad that copy and paste is your biggest problem :)