Fedora Linux

Fedora Linux
Fedora Workstation 41
DeveloperFedora Project
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen source
Initial releaseNovember 4, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-11-04)[1]
Latest release41 Edit this on Wikidata[2] / 29 October 2024; 8 days ago (29 October 2024)[2]
Latest preview41 Beta / 17 September 2024 (50 days ago) (2024-09-17)
Repositorysrc.fedoraproject.org
Marketing targetDesktop computers, servers, supercomputers
Package managerRPM (DNF), Flatpak, OSTree
Platforms
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux kernel)
UserlandGNU
Default
user interface		GNOME Shell, Bash
LicenseGPL and various free software licenses, plus proprietary firmware files[6]
Official websitefedoraproject.org

Fedora Linux[7] 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.[8][9][10] It is now the upstream source for CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.[11][12]

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.[13][14] A new version of Fedora Linux is released every six months.[15]

As of February 2016, Fedora Linux has an estimated 1.2 million users,[16] and is also the distribution used by Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel (as of May 2020).[17][18][19]

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