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Fedora Linux

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Fedora Core (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Fedora Linux) is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat, and derived from the original Red Hat Linux distribution.

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Fedora Core running GNOME

The Fedora Project has the goal of building a complete, general-purpose operating system from free software. Fedora came about as a result of new business strategy which Red Hat implemented late in 2003. The Project envisages that conventional Linux home users will use Fedora Core, and intends that it replace the consumer distributions of Red Hat Linux. (Red Hat has positioned Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a business-oriented Linux distribution, and it offers software support for that distribution.) Support for Fedora comes from the greater community.

Versions

Stable

The Project released Fedora Core 1 (FC1, codename Yarrow, release name Cambridge) on November 6, 2003. Improvements over Red Hat Linux 9 included automated updates with yum, improved laptop support with ACPI and cpufreq, prelinking for faster program start time, and kernels with the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL). An AMD64 version appeared in March 2004.

Fedora Core 2 (FC2, codename Tettnang), the current version, was released on May 18, 2004. It includes version 2.6 of the Linux kernel, GNOME 2.6, KDE 3.2.1, and SELinux. This version also replaced XFree86 with the XOrg Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11. A lot of complaints were received about this release because of its problems with installation while dual-booting with Windows XP, but this was actually an issue with the 2.6 kernel's handling of partitions.

Unstable

The current test version of Fedora Core is 3 test1. When the final version of 3 is completed on October 18, 2004, it should include GNOME 2.8, GCC 3.4, and KDE 3.3.

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