Fedora Red Hat (Operating System)

Fedora (pronounced /fəˈdɔərə/) is an RPM-based, general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora's mission statement is: "The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community."[3]




One of Fedora's main objectives is not only to contain software distributed under a free and open source license, but also to be on the leading edge of such technologies.[4][5] Fedora developers prefer to make upstream changes instead of applying fixes specifically for Fedora—this ensures that their updates are available to all Linux distributions.[6]



Fedora has a comparatively short life cycle: version X is maintained until one month after version X+2 is released. With 6 months between releases, the maintenance period is about 13 months for each version.[7]



Linus Torvalds, author of the Linux kernel, says he uses Fedora because it had fairly good support for PowerPC when he used that processor architecture. He became accustomed to the operating system and continues to use it.[8]



According to Distrowatch, Fedora is the second most popular Linux-based operating system as of mid 2009, behind Ubuntu.[9]