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Fedora (operating system)
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Fedora Linux is a distribution (or distro) of Linux developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. It is designed to be safe and is used by companies and governments. Fedora's mission statement is: "Fedora is about the rapid progress of Free and Open Source software."[7]
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Fedora Workstation 35 — its default desktop environment (GNOME 41), background image, and applications | |
Developer | Fedora Project |
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OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
Working state | Current |
Source model | Open source |
Initial release | 6 November 2003; 20 years ago (2003-11-06)[1] |
Latest release | 37[2] / November 15, 2022; 18 months ago (2022-11-15)[2] |
Marketing target | Desktop, server, cloud |
Package manager | RPM (DNF), Flatpak, OSTree — graphical front-ends: GNOME Software, dnfdragora, KDE Discover |
Platforms | |
Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux kernel) |
Userland | GNU |
Default user interface | GNOME Shell on Wayland |
License | GPL and various free software licenses, plus proprietary firmware files[6] |
Official website | getfedora |
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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 used to the operating system and continues to use it.[8]