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===Workstation===

[[File:Fedora Workstation 41 — default applications (1).png|thumb|290x290px|Fedora Workstation 41 with its default applications]]

The Fedora Workstation editions target users who want a reliable, user-friendly, and powerful operating system for their laptop or desktop computer while still being on the cutting edge of new technologies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The leading Linux desktop |url=https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/ |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=fedoraproject.org}}</ref> They come with [[GNOME]] by default but other desktops can be installed, including [[KDE Plasma 6|KDE Plasma]], which was promoted to a regular edition on the same level as Fedora Workstation with GNOME starting with Fedora 42.<ref>{{cite web |title=Issue #504: Request to upgrade Fedora KDE Desktop Spin to Edition status under the Personal Systems WG - tickets - Pagure.io |url=https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/504 |access-date=2024-12-30}}</ref>.

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Fedora Linux, then known as "Fedora Core", was a fork of [[Red Hat Linux]] launched in 2003, when Red Hat Linux was discontinued so the team could focus on their paid version for servers: [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]].<ref name="newdirection">{{cite mailing list | url=http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2003-September/msg00064.html | title=Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction | date=22 September 2003 | access-date=18 October 2007 | mailing-list=Fedora development | last=Johnson | first=Michael K. | archive-date=20 November 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120053411/http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2003-September/msg00064.html | url-status=live }}</ref> [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]] was to be Red Hat's only officially supported Linux distribution, while Fedora was to be a community distribution.<ref name="newdirection" /> Red Hat Enterprise Linux branches its releases from versions of Fedora.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.redhat.com/magazine/022aug06/features/fedora_rhel_4/ | title=The Fedora Project and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, part 4 | last=Burke | first=Tim | publisher=Red Hat | series=Red Hat Magazine, Issue #22 | date=August 2006 | access-date=18 October 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012162113/http://www.redhat.com/magazine/022aug06/features/fedora_rhel_4/ | archive-date=12 October 2007 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Before Fedora 7, Fedora Linux was called Fedora Core after the name of one of the two main software repositories - Core and Extras. Fedora Core contained all the base packages that were required by the operating system, as well as other packages that were distributed along with the installation [[Compact disc|CD]]/[[DVD|DVDs]]s, and was maintained only by Red Hat developers. Fedora Extras, the secondary repository that had been included since Fedora Core 3, was community-maintained and not distributed along with the installation CD/DVDs. Upon the release of Fedora 7, the distinction between Fedora Core and Fedora Extras was eliminated.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7 | title=Releases/7 | publisher=Fedora Project | access-date=27 February 2014 | archive-date=27 February 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227074208/https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Since the release of Fedora 21, as an effort to bring modularization to the Fedora distribution and make development more agile,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-present-and-future-a-fedora-next-2014-update-part-i-why/ |title=Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?") |publisher=Fedora Magazine |date=19 March 2014 |last=Miller |first=Matthew |access-date=23 July 2017 |archive-date=9 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809011809/https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-present-and-future-a-fedora-next-2014-update-part-i-why/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://old.lwn.net/Articles/680278/ |title=Modularizing Fedora |date=16 March 2016 |last=Corbet |first=Jonathan |publisher=LWN.net |access-date=23 July 2017 |archive-date=9 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809000025/https://old.lwn.net/Articles/680278/ |url-status=live }}</ref> three different versions are available: ''Workstation'', focused on the [[personal computer]], ''Server'' and ''Atomic'' for [[server (computing)|server]]s, ''Atomic'' being the version meant for [[cloud computing]].<ref name="arstechnica fedora21" />

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