Fedora Linux
Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. It was originally developed in 2003 as a continuation of the Red Hat Linux project. It contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of open-source technologies. It is now the upstream source for CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Fedora Workstation 39 | |
| Developer | Fedora Project |
|---|---|
| OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Initial release | November 6, 2003 |
| Latest release | 39 / 7 November 2023 |
| Latest preview | 40 / |
| Repository | src |
| Marketing target | Desktop computers, servers, supercomputers |
| Package manager | RPM (DNF), Flatpak, OSTree |
| Platforms | |
| Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux kernel) |
| Userland | GNU |
| Default user interface | GNOME Shell, Bash |
| License | GPL and various free software licenses, plus proprietary firmware files |
| Official website | fedoraproject |
Since the release of Fedora 21 in December 2014, three editions have been made available: personal computer, server and cloud computing. This was expanded to five editions for containerization and Internet of Things (IoT) as of the release of Fedora 37 in November 2022. A new version of Fedora Linux is released every six months.
As of February 2016, Fedora Linux has an estimated 1.2 million users, and is also the distro of choice by Linus Torvalds (as of May 2020), creator of the Linux kernel.