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72-400: The Fedora Project is an independent project to coordinate the development of Fedora Linux , a Linux -based operating system , operating with the mission of creating " an innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enables software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users ". The project also oversees Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux,

144-669: A hackathon . Flock is a similar event which replaced FUDCon in North America and Europe/the Middle East. Task-specific, flexibly scheduled events known as Fedora Activity Days also gather many project contributors together in various regions. EPEL is a repository of extra packages published by the Fedora project, which can be expected to work in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives systems. EPEL

216-428: A community-based operating system, Fedora. Red Hat Professional Workstation was created at this same time. Fedora Linux, then known as "Fedora Core," was a fork of RHL launched in 2003. It was introduced as a free-of-cost, community-supported alternative intended for home use, shortly after Red Hat discontinued RHL in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). RHEL branches its releases from versions of Fedora. Since

288-480: A minimal image of Fedora Linux which includes just the bare essentials. This is not to be confused with Fedora Core. It is meant for deployment in cloud computing . It provides Fedora CoreOS images which are optimized minimal images for deploying containers. CoreOS replaced the established Container Linux when it was merged with Project Atomic after its acquisition by Red Hat in January 2018. Similar to Debian blends ,

360-415: 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. Fedora users can upgrade from version to version without reinstalling. The current release is Fedora 41, which was released on 29 October 2024. Rawhide

432-451: A reputation for focusing on innovation, integrating new technologies early on and working closely with upstream Linux communities. Making changes upstream instead of specifically for Fedora Linux ensures that the changes are available to all Linux distributions . Fedora Linux has a relatively short life cycle: Each version is usually supported for at least 13 months, where version X is supported only until 1 month after version X +2

504-715: A result). The name of Fedora derives from the original "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 , 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 difference between Fedora Linux and Red Hat Linux

576-593: A separate Fedora Foundation to govern the project, but after consideration of a variety of issues, canceled it in favor of the board model currently in place. The community is also involved in organizing lower levels of leadership, both the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) and the Mindshare Committee (responsible for technical and community oversight, respectively) are community-elected bodies which manage significant portions of

648-407: A set of community supported packages for Red Hat Linux. However, the six month release cycle of Red Hat Linux was too disruptive for business users and Red Hat wanted a more reliable revenue stream. In 2002 Red Hat began releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux based on Red Hat Linux , but with a much more conservative release cycle and a subscription based support program. A year later, Red Hat discontinued

720-554: A special interest group which maintains the eponymous packages. The project was founded in 2003 as a result of a merger between the Red Hat Linux (RHL) and Fedora Linux projects. It is sponsored by Red Hat primarily, but its employees make up only 35% of project contributors, and most of the over 2,000 contributors are unaffiliated members of the community. The Fedora Project was founded in November 2003 when Red Hat decided to split Red Hat Linux into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and

792-581: A stable application binary interface (ABI), Red Hat does not update the kernel version, but instead backports new features to the same kernel version with which a particular version of RHEL has been released. New features are backported throughout the Production 1 phase of the RHEL lifecycle. Consequently, RHEL may use a Linux kernel with a dated version number, yet the kernel is up-to-date regarding not only security fixes, but also certain features. One specific example

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864-450: A variety of security policies, including mandatory access controls , which Fedora adopted early on. Fedora provides a hardening wrapper, and does hardening for all of its packages by using compiler features such as position-independent executable (PIE). Fedora also ships with firewalld as a default firewall . Fedora Workstation comes preinstalled with a wide range of software such as LibreOffice and Firefox . Additional software

936-458: Is a commercial open-source operating system developed by Red Hat for enterprise environments. It is built from the open-source Fedora distribution and aims to provide a stable, secure, and enterprise-grade platform. RHEL 9, released in May 2022, introduces several new features and improvements, especially tailored for cloud-native development, security, automation, and performance enhancements . RHEL 9

1008-485: Is a variant of Fedora Workstation. It is an atomic desktop operating system. Every Silverblue installation is identical to every other installation of the same version, and it never changes as it is used. The immutable design is intended to make the operating system more stable, less prone to bugs , easier to test and develop, and create a platform for containerized applications as well as container-based software development. Applications and containers are kept separate from

1080-446: Is at least seven years for versions 3 and 4, and spans at least 10 years for versions 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. The life cycle comprises several phases of varying length with different degrees of support. During the first phase ("Production 1"), Red Hat provides full support and updates software and hardware drivers. In later phases ("Production 2" and "Production 3"), only security and other important fixes are provided and support for new hardware

1152-794: Is available from the software repositories and can be installed using the DNF package manager or GNOME Software . Additionally, extra repositories can be added to the system, so that software not available in Fedora Linux can be installed easily. Software that is not available via official Fedora repositories, either because it does not meet Fedora's definition of free software or because its 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. Since

1224-448: Is based on Fedora 28 , upstream Linux kernel  4.18, systemd  239, and GNOME 3.28. The first beta was announced on 14 November 2018. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 was officially released on 2019-05-07  ( 2019-05-07 ) . For RHEL 8, the update schedule is approximately: In addition to normal OS updates, RHEL 8 also maintains application streams to allow for certain applications to be supported and updated independent of

1296-723: Is derived completely from free and open source software . Until 2023, Red Hat made the source code to its enterprise distribution publicly available through its FTP website. Accordingly, several groups used the source code to compile their own derivatives, typically with changes including the removal of any references to Red Hat's trademarks and pointing the update systems to non-Red Hat servers. Groups which have undertaken this include AlmaLinux , CentOS , MIRACLE LINUX , Oracle Linux , CloudLinux OS , Rocky Linux , Scientific Linux , StartCom Enterprise Linux, Pie Box Enterprise Linux, X/OS, Lineox, and Bull 's XBAS for high-performance computing. However, as of June 2023, Red Hat no longer makes

1368-557: Is for servers . It includes the latest data center technologies. This edition does not come with a desktop environment , but one can be installed. From Fedora 28, Server Edition will deliver Fedora Modularity, adding support for alternative update streams for popular software such as Node.js and Go . Images of Fedora Linux tailored to running on Internet of Things devices. It supports x86_64 , aarch64 and armhfp processors . The successor of Fedora Atomic Host (Project Atomic) and Container Linux after Fedora 29, it provides

1440-508: Is gradually reduced. In the last years of the support lifecycle (after seven years for version 4 and earlier, and after 10 years for version 5 and later), critical and security-related fixes are only provided to customers who pay an additional subscription ("Extended Lifecycle Support Add-On") that is available for versions 3, 4, 5 and 6. This covers a limited number of packages. Red Hat only supports major version upgrades from version 6 to version 7 and from version 7 to version 8. To maintain

1512-423: Is organised by a Fedora Special Interest Group . EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora, including buildsystem, Bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager and more. Fedora Linux Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by

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1584-544: Is released and with approximately 6 months between most versions. Fedora users can upgrade from version to version without reinstalling. The default desktop environment is GNOME , and the default user interface is the GNOME Shell . Other desktop environments are available, including KDE Plasma , Xfce , LXQt , LXDE , MATE , Cinnamon , and Budgie as well as window managers including i3 , and Sway . A live media drive can be created using Fedora Media Writer or

1656-469: Is targeted at advanced users, testers, and package maintainers, it is capable of being a primary operating system. Users interested in the Rawhide branch often update on a daily basis and help troubleshoot problems. Rawhide users do not have to upgrade between different versions as it follows a rolling release update model. Red Hat Enterprise Linux The first version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to bear

1728-565: Is that the ES product is indeed the company's base enterprise server product, while AS is the more advanced product. However, nowhere on its site or in its literature does Red Hat say what AS, ES, and WS stand for. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 there are new editions that substitute former Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS/Desktop: Red Hat had also announced its Red Hat Global Desktop Linux edition "for emerging markets ". RHEL 4, 3, and prior releases had four variants: The Fedora Project provides

1800-547: Is the SO_REUSEPORT socket option which was added to Linux kernel 3.9, and was subsequently backported and became available since RHEL 6.5, which uses version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. The Extended Update Support (EUS) allows an organization / company to choose when they change to a new minor version. For the first 6 months of the EUS channel / yum repo, features may be added, but then

1872-408: Is the development tree for Fedora. This is a copy of a complete Fedora distribution where new software is added and tested, before inclusion in a later stable release. As such, Rawhide is often more feature rich than the current stable release. In many cases, the software is made of CVS , Subversion or Git source code snapshots which are often actively developed by programmers. Although Rawhide

1944-411: Is the latest greatest. One can not go back in time, aka 7.5.z to 7.4.z and will NOT be supported. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 was forked from Fedora 12 and contains many backported features from Fedora 13 and 14. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ( Maipo ) is based on Fedora 19 , upstream Linux kernel  3.10, 10 June 2014, uses Linux kernel 3.10.0-123 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 ( Ootpa )

2016-499: The Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) . EPEL packages can be expected to work in RHEL, but it is up to willing community members to maintain the packages and back port any upstream changes. As such, packages "may come and go" during the ten-year lifespan of the RHEL release and Red Hat support plans do not include resolving issues caused by EPEL packages. Originally, Red Hat's enterprise product, then known as Red Hat Linux ,

2088-596: 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 . Since the release of Fedora 21 in December 2014, three editions have been made available: personal computer , server and cloud computing . This

2160-862: The GPLv2 only ). This led to AlmaLinux , one of the RHEL derivative Linux distributions, moving away from "1:1 bug for bug" compatibility to " application binary interface (ABI) compatible", while Oracle , SUSE , and CIQ (the company behind Rocky Linux ) collaborated to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) in order to provide "open and free Enterprise Linux (EL) source code". Derivatives of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are free but do not get any commercial support or consulting services from Red Hat and lack software, hardware or security certifications from Red Hat. They also do not get access to Red Hat services like Red Hat Network . Unusually, Red Hat took steps to obfuscate their changes to

2232-696: The dd command, allowing users to try Fedora Linux without writing any changes to their hard drives. Most Fedora Linux editions use the RPM package management system and DNF as a tool to manage installed software. DNF uses libsolv, an external dependency resolver. Flatpak is also included by default. The CoreOS and Silverblue editions are designed for operating system-level virtualization . These editions use rpm-ostree (a hybrid transactional image/package system), and traditional RPM (or other package management systems) can be used in containers. Fedora Linux uses Security-Enhanced Linux by default, which implements

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2304-529: The Console Operating System in VMware ESX Server and Oracle Linux . Each release is given a codename which is selected by a vote of the developers. The codenames don't have a specific pattern (unlike Ubuntu or Debian ). Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 was announced at Red Hat Summit on May 10, 2022, and was officially released on May 17, 2022  ( 2022-05-17 ) . In this version of

2376-491: 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. In April 2020, project leader Matthew Miller announced that Fedora Workstation would be shipping on select new ThinkPad laptops, thanks to a new partnership with Lenovo . Development of

2448-410: The EUS repos/channels depending on the agreement the organization / company has with Red Hat. For more information on what is Included/Excluded from the EUS see. In general one can move from z streams to the next version of the z stream. Any 7.y.z EUS channel where y is greater than 1. The standard base channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, which is the most recent minor release aka rhel 7Y where y

2520-592: The Fedora Project also distributes custom variations of Fedora Linux called Fedora Labs. These are built with specific sets of software packages, targeting specific interests such as gaming, security, design, robotics, and scientific computing (that includes SciPy , Octave , Kile , Xfig and Inkscape ). The Fedora AOS (Appliance Operating System) was a specialized spin of Fedora Linux with reduced memory footprint for use in software appliances . Appliances are pre-installed, pre-configured, system images. This spin

2592-453: The KDE, Sway, and Budgie spins are provided as OSTree-backed immutable spins named Kinoite, Sway Atomic, and Budgie Atomic respectively. In addition to Spins, which are official variants of the Fedora system, the project allows unofficial variants to use the term "Fedora Remix" without asking for further permission, although a different logo (provided) is required. x86-64 and ARM AArch64 are

2664-478: The Linux kernel for RHEL 6.0 by not publicly providing the patch files for their changes in the source tarball, and only releasing the finished product in source form. Speculation suggested that the move was made to affect Oracle's competing rebuild and support services, which further modifies the distribution. This practice however, still complies with the GNU GPL since source code is defined as "[the] preferred form of

2736-510: The Red Hat Linux product line, merging it with the Fedora community packages and releasing the resulting Fedora distribution for free. Fedora now serves as upstream for future versions of RHEL: RHEL trees are forked off the Fedora repository, and released after a substantial stabilization and quality assurance effort. RHEL source code is also not freely available, as those that obtain it are forbidden from redistribution. For example, RHEL 5

2808-507: The base OS and to match the maintenance stream of the application vendor. Each application stream will be supported from two to five years with new versions only available during the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Full Support Phase. These apps should be expected to be updated frequently with shorter lifecycles than the base OS packages. Packages currently offered as streams Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL 9)

2880-413: The change since they do not make any changes to the kernel beyond what is provided by Red Hat. Their competitor Oracle announced in November 2012 that they were releasing a RedPatch service, which allows public view of the RHEL kernel changes, broken down by patch. A number of commercial vendors use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a base for the operating system in their products. Two of the best known are

2952-447: The channel is locked down so that only bug and security fixes are patched. The organization / company then has 24 months to move to a new EUS branch. EUS allows the organization / company to stay on a minor version if required by a third-party application which is only tested with a particular minor version of RHEL, such as Oracle Database , IBM Db2 , IBM Cloud Orchestrator, Hortonworks . There may also be extra costs associated with using

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3024-623: The following explanation: Fedora is a free distribution and community project and upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora is a general purpose system that gives Red Hat and the rest of its contributor community the chance to innovate rapidly with new technologies. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercial enterprise operating system and has its own set of test phases including alpha and beta releases which are separate and distinct from Fedora development. Originally, Red Hat sold boxed versions of Red Hat Linux directly to consumers and business through phone support. The Fedora Project began in 2002 as

3096-439: The host system. OS updates are fast and there is no installation stage. With Silverblue, it is also possible to roll back to the previous version of the operating system, if something goes wrong. Fedora Silverblue was previously known as Fedora Atomic Workstation. The descriptive name for this product is image-mode container-based Fedora Workstation based on rpm-ostree, which is clear but unsuitable for branding. The team preferred

3168-754: The name originally came onto the market as "Red Hat Linux Advanced Server". In 2003, Red Hat rebranded Red Hat Linux Advanced Server to "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS" and added two more variants, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS. Red Hat previously used strict trademark rules to restrict free re-distribution of their officially supported versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux but still freely provided its source code . Third-party derivatives were able to be built and redistributed by stripping away non-free components like Red Hat's trademarks. Examples include community-supported distributions like Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux , and commercial ones like Oracle Linux . In 2023, Red Hat decided to stop making

3240-644: The operating system and supporting programs is headed by the Fedora Project, which is composed of a community of developers and volunteers, and also Red Hat employees. The Council is the top-level community leadership and governance body. Other bodies include the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, responsible for the technical decisions behind the development of Fedora, and Fedora Mindshare Committee which coordinates outreach and non-technical activities, including representation of Fedora Worldwide e.g.: Ambassadors Program, CommOps team and Marketing, Design and Websites Team. Red Hat Linux 9 to Fedora Core 1. Fedora has

3312-510: The pieces for this new desktop over the last few years: OSTree , Flatpak , Flathub , rpm-ostree , and GNOME Software . The ultimate goal of this effort always was to create an image-based variant of the Workstation that is at feature-parity and better suited for certain use cases than the traditional variant. Until the end of 2017, the Silverblue team slowly completed the necessary pieces for

3384-1055: The primary architectures supported by Fedora. As of release 38, Fedora also supports IBM Power64le , IBM Z ("s390x"), MIPS-64el , MIPS-el and RISC-V as secondary architectures. Fedora 28 was the last release that supported ppc64 and users are advised to move to the little endian ppc64le variant. Fedora 36 was the last release with support for ARM-hfp . The Fedora Project also distributes several other versions with less use cases than mentioned above, like network installers and minimal installation images. They are intended for special cases or expert users that want to have custom installations or configuring Fedora from scratch. In addition, all acceptable licenses for Fedora Linux (including copyright, trademark, and patent licenses) must be applicable not only to Red Hat or Fedora, but also to all recipients downstream. This means that any "Fedora-only" licenses, or licenses with specific terms that Red Hat or Fedora meets but that other recipients would not are not acceptable (and almost certainly non-free, as

3456-476: The project name Silverleaf, but could not secure that name for various reasons. Therefore, it was named Silverblue, though the logo still retains the impression of a leaf. The long-term goal for this effort is to transform Fedora Workstation into an image-based system where applications are separate from the OS, and updates are atomic. Red Hat engineers, along with independent free software contributors have built most of

3528-458: The project, named roles appointed by Red Hat, and a variable number of seats connected to medium-term project goals. The previous governance structure (Fedora Board) comprised five Red Hat appointed members and five community-elected members. Additionally, Fedora Project leader had a veto power over any board decision; in the current model, all voting members can block on issues, with a valid reason. Red Hat at one point announced intentions to create

3600-593: The project. The project facilitates online communication among its developers and community members through public mailing lists and wiki pages. It also coordinates two main events, known as the Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) and Flock (or Flock to Fedora). FUDCon is a free software event held at different locations in the two designated regions of Latin America and Asia/Pacific. Typically, it revolves around some combination of conferencing, social events, and

3672-490: 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. The current release is Fedora 41, which was released on 29 October 2024. In August 2008, several Fedora servers were compromised. Upon investigation it

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3744-599: The release of Fedora 25, the operating system defaults to the Wayland display server protocol, which replaced the X Window System . Fedora Linux uses Anaconda as the system installer . Beginning with Fedora 21, it is available in three editions, expanded to five editions as of version 37. It targets users who want a reliable, user-friendly, and powerful operating system for their laptop or desktop computer. It comes with GNOME by default but other desktops can be installed or can be directly installed as Spins . Silverblue

3816-399: The software. As a precaution the project converted to new package signing keys. Fedora published the full details on March 30, 2009. The Fedora Project is not a separate legal entity or organization; Red Hat retains liability for its actions. The Fedora Council is the top-level community leadership and governance body. The Council is composed of a mix of representatives from different areas of

3888-517: The source code freely available; while they still provide the source code to customers and developers. The GNU GPL forbids terms and conditions that prevent users from redistributing the source code of GPL-licensed software, including but not limited to the GNU core utilities (such as cat, ls, and rm), which is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 or later as of version 6.10, and the Linux kernel itself (licensed under

3960-536: The source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux available to the public. The code is still available to Red Hat customers, as well as developers using free accounts, though under conditions that forbid redistribution of the source code. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server subscription is available at no cost for development purposes. Developers need to register for the Red Hat Developer Program and agree to license terms forbidding production use and redistribution of

4032-577: The source code. This free developer subscription was announced on March 31, 2016. There are also "Academic" editions of the Desktop and Server variants. They are offered to schools and students, are less expensive, and are provided with Red Hat technical support as an optional extra. Web support based on the number of customer contacts can be purchased separately. It is often assumed the branding ES, AS, and WS stand for "Entry-level Server", "Advanced Server" and "Work Station", respectively. The reason for this

4104-408: The system introduced a Linux Kernel 5.14.0 and Gnome 40. RHEL 9 was the first to be based on CentOS Stream , itself based on Fedora Linux, while historically RHEL was based directly on Fedora Linux. The first beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 ( Plow ), based on Fedora Linux 34 , was released on November 3, 2021. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 ( Plow ) was released on May 18, 2022. The name Plow

4176-404: The version meant for cloud computing . 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. The issue was resolved and the parties settled on a co-existence agreement that stated that

4248-472: The vision of an immutable image-based OS with independent applications: Wayland, flatpak, and rpm-ostree support in GNOME Software, etc. During the same time, Project Atomic has added new features like package layering to rpm-ostree and added rpm-ostree support to Anaconda . Fedora also supports more immutable editions, including Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic, and Kinoite for KDE Plasma . Its target usage

4320-435: The work for making modifications to it", and the distribution still complies with this definition. Red Hat's CTO Brian Stevens later confirmed the change, stating that certain information (such as patch information) would now only be provided to paying customers to make the Red Hat product more competitive against the growing number of companies offering support for products based on RHEL. CentOS developers had no objections to

4392-419: Was a fork of Red Hat Linux launched in 2003, when Red Hat Linux was discontinued so the team could focus on their paid version for servers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux . Red Hat Enterprise Linux was to be Red Hat's only officially supported Linux distribution, while Fedora was to be a community distribution. Red Hat Enterprise Linux branches its releases from versions of Fedora. Before Fedora 7, Fedora Linux

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4464-493: Was a tribute to Larry Troan. His son, Eric Troan was Red Hat's first head engineer and his username was ewt , so his father was given the name ewt's pa , pronounced Ootpa . Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ( Maipo ) is based on Fedora 18 and Fedora 19 , upstream Linux kernel  3.10, systemd  208 (updated to 219 in RHEL ;7.2), and GNOME 3.8 (rebased to GNOME 3.28 in RHEL 7.6) The first beta

4536-538: Was announced on 11 December 2013, and a release candidate was made available on 15 April 2014. On June 10, 2014  ( 2014-06-10 ) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 was officially released. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 was forked from Fedora 10 and contains many backported features from Fedora 11 and Fedora 12. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has forked with Fedora Core 6 . RHEL 4 introduced Linux kernel 2.6 versions and extended attributes on ext2 and ext3 file systems. The life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

4608-409: Was called Fedora Core after the name of one of the two main software repositories - Core and Extras. 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,

4680-458: 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. Since the release of Fedora 21, as an effort to bring modularization to the Fedora distribution and make development more agile, three different versions are available: Workstation , focused on the personal computer , Server and Atomic for servers , Atomic being

4752-446: 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 distribution used by Linus Torvalds , creator of the Linux kernel (as of May 2020 ). Fedora has

4824-477: Was forked from Fedora at the end of 2006 (approximately at the time of the Fedora Core 6 release) and released more or less together with Fedora 14. By the time RHEL 6 was released, many features from Fedora 13 and 14 had already been backported into it. The Fedora Project lists the following lineages for older Red Hat Enterprise releases: In addition, the Fedora project publishes a set of packages for RHEL called

4896-424: Was found that one of the compromised servers was used for signing Fedora update packages . The Fedora Project stated that the attacker(s) did not get the package signing key which could be used to introduce malicious software onto Fedora users' systems through the update process. Project administrators performed checks on the software and did not find anything to suggest that a Trojan horse had been introduced into

4968-591: Was intended to make it easier for anyone (developers, independent software vendors (ISV), original equipment manufacturers (OEM), etc.) to create and deploy virtual appliances . The Fedora project officially distributes different variations called "Fedora Spins" which are Fedora Linux with different desktop environments (GNOME is the default desktop environment). The current official spins, as of Fedora 40, are KDE Plasma , Xfce , LXQt , MATE (with Compiz ), Cinnamon , LXDE , SoaS , i3 , Phosh (for use on PinePhone ), Budgie , and Sway . In addition,

5040-447: Was made freely available to anybody who wished to download it, while Red Hat made money from support. Red Hat then moved towards splitting its product line into Red Hat Enterprise Linux which was designed to be stable and with long-term support for enterprise users and Fedora as the community distribution and project sponsored by Red Hat. The use of trademarks prevents verbatim copying of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux

5112-401: Was that Fedora's repository development would be collaborative with the global volunteer community. The original Fedora Linux was eventually absorbed into the Fedora Project, carrying with it this collaborative approach. The Fedora Project is sponsored primarily by Red Hat with additional support and sponsors from other companies and organizations. Fedora Linux, then known as "Fedora Core",

5184-666: Was the Appalachian Trail nickname for Tim Burke, one of the founders of RHEL and retired leader of RHEL engineering. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 ( Ootpa ) is based on Fedora 28 , upstream Linux kernel  4.18, GCC 8.2, glibc 2.28, systemd  239, GNOME 3.28, and the switch to Wayland . The first beta was announced on November 14, 2018. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 was officially released on May 7, 2019  ( 2019-05-07 ) . With Release 8 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IBM has completed transition of POWER8 and POWER9 servers to little-endian mode . The name Ootpa

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