LINUX FEDORA

Features[edit]
Fedora has a reputation for focusing on innovation, integrating new technologies early on and
working closely with upstream Linux communities.[10] Making changes upstream instead of
specifically in Fedora ensures that the changes are available to all Linux distributions.
Fedora has a relatively short life cycle: version X is supported only until 1 month after version X+2 is
released and with approximately 6 months between most versions, meaning a version of Fedora is
usually supported for at least 13 months, possibly longer.[11] Fedora users can upgrade from version
to version without reinstalling.[12][13]
The default desktop in Fedora is the GNOME desktop environment and the default interface is
the GNOME Shell. Other desktop environments, including KDE
Plasma, Xfce, LXDE, MATE and Cinnamon, are available and can be installed.[14][15]

Fedora 22 with KDE Plasma 5

Fedora uses the RPM package management system.

Software[edit]
Fedora comes installed with a wide range of software such as LibreOffice and Firefox. Additional
software is available from the software repositories and can be installed using the DNF package
manager or GNOME Software.

GNOME Software, Fedora's default package manager front-end

Additionally, extra repositories can be added to the system, so that software not available in Fedora
can be installed.[17]:Section 9.8.1. Software that is not available via official Fedora repositories either because
they don't meet Fedora's definition of free software or because their distribution may violate US law
can be installed using third party repositories. Popular third-party repositories include RPM
Fusion free and non-free repositories. Fedora also provides users with an easy-to-use build system
for creating their own repositories called Copr.[18]

Editions[edit]
Beginning with Fedora 21, Fedora Linux is available as three distinct primary editions: Fedora Cloud,
Fedora Server and Fedora Workstation.[19]

Fedora Workstation It targets users who want a reliable, user-friendly, and powerful
operating system for their laptop or desktop computer. It comes with GNOME desktop
environment by default but other desktops can be installed or can be directly installed as Spins.

Fedora Server Its target usage is for servers, and it includes the latest data
center technologies. This edition doesn't come with a desktop environment, but one can be
installed if necessary.

Fedora Cloud Fedora Cloud provides a minimal image of Fedora which includes just the
bare essentials. It is meant for deployment in cloud computing. It also provides Fedora Atomic
Host images which are optimized minimal images for container uses.

A Live USB drive can be created using Fedora Live USB creator or the dd command.[17]:Section 3.2. It
allows the users to try Fedora without making changes to the hard disk.

Spins[edit]
Similar to Debian blends, the Fedora Project also distributes custom variations of Fedora called
Fedora spins or editions.[20] These are built with specific sets of software packages, offering
alternative desktop environments or targeting specific interests such as gaming, security, design,
education,[21] robotics,[22][23] and scientific computing[24] (that
includes SciPy, Octave, Kile, Xfig and Inkscape). Fedora spins are developed by several Fedora
special interest groups.[20] Fedora also provides a Fedora Atomic Host image for Project Atomic,
which is Red Hat's solution for deploying Docker-based containerized applications.[25]

Architectures[edit]

Intel i686, AMD x86-64 and ARM-hfp are the primary architectures supported by Fedora. [3] Pidora[26] is
a specialized Fedora distribution for the Raspberry Pi. As of release 25, Fedora also supports ARM
AArch64, IBM Power64, IBM Power64le, IBM Z, MIPS-64el, MIPS-el and RISC-V as secondary
architectures.

History[edit]
The Fedora Project was created in late 2003, when Red Hat Linux was discontinued.[27] Red Hat
Enterprise Linux was to be Red Hat's only officially supported Linux distribution, while Fedora was to
be a community distribution.[27] Red Hat Enterprise Linux branches its releases from versions of
Fedora.[28]
The name of Fedora derives from Fedora Linux, a volunteer project that provided extra software for
the Red Hat Linux distribution, and from the characteristic fedora hat used in Red Hat's
"Shadowman" logo. Warren Togami began Fedora Linux in 2002 as an undergraduate project at
the University of Hawaii,[29] intended to provide a single repository for well-tested third-party software
packages so that non-Red Hat software would be easier to find, develop, and use. The key of
Fedora Linux and Red Hat Linux was that Fedora's repository development would be collaborative
with the global volunteer community.[30] Fedora Linux was eventually absorbed into the Fedora
Project, carrying with it this collaborative approach. [31]
Before Fedora 7, Fedora was called Fedora Core after the name of one of the two main software
repositories - Core and Extras (EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux). 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 CD/DVDs, 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. [32]
Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat's application for trademark status for the name
"Fedora" was disputed by Cornell University and the University of Virginia Library, creators of the
unrelated Fedora Commons digital repository management software.[33] The issue was resolved and
the parties settled on a co-existence agreement that stated that the Cornell-UVA project could use
the name when clearly associated with open source software for digital object repository systems
and that Red Hat could use the name when it was clearly associated with open source computer
operating systems.[34]

Releases[edit]