fedora
Fedora Linux is a community-driven, general-purpose Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat. It is known for its rapid release cycle, incorporating the latest open-source software and serving as an upstream proving ground for technologies that eventually make their way into Red Hat Enterprise…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2003
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Fedora was created to provide a robust, free, and community-driven Linux distribution that embraced cutting-edge open-source software and served as a rapid innovation platform. It addressed the need for a modern, progressive desktop and development environment after Red Hat Linux transitioned, while also creating a structured pathway for new technologies to mature into enterprise-grade solutions for RHEL.
- Platforms
- containers, s390x, aarch64, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), ppc64le, virtualization (KVM, VMware, VirtualBox), x86_64
Related technologies
Notable users
- Companies utilizing it for development workstations or non-critical server environments
- Academic institutions for research and development
- Red Hat (internal development and testing)
- Numerous individual developers and open-source contributors