Fedora is an RPM-based, general purpose collection of software, including an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat.
Fedora is a community-maintained Linux distribution aiming to be at the leading edge of free software. It is sponsored by Red Hat, Inc. through the Fedora Project as a community complement of their own Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Philosophy
The core values of Fedora are software Freedom, Friends, Features, and First.
Releases
Fedora releases a new version twice a year.