Fedora

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Fedora is a free, stable and popular general-purpose GNU/Linux distribution developed by the [http://www.fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Project] and sponsored by [http://www.redhat.com Red Hat, Inc].

== Overview ==

When Red Hat discontinued Red Hat Linux in 2003, the RHL code forked into two branches. One branch is the enterprise distribution called [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]] which is the central component of Red Hat's business model, the other branch is the general-purpose community distribution called Fedora. The Fedora code is periodically cloned and undergoes added additional refinement for stability, business-readiness and a smaller package base. This matured clone then becomes the next RHEL release.

Red Hat often use Fedora as a platform for testing public readiness of new features which are eventually destined for RHEL and other Red Hat products. The Fedora Project still maintains a very strict software inclusion policy and testing process, so releases are not "unstable" or "bleeding-edge". Some example features which have migrated from Fedora to RHEL in the past are the yum package manager, NetworkManager and KVM virtualization. Some current testing features are systemd as a replacement for init, and the brtfs filesystem.

== General Status ==

* Currently packaged by [http://www.rpmfusion.org/ RPM Fusion].
* Older versions (FC9 and earlier) were packaged by [http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/LivnaSwitcher Thorsten Leemhuis] and [http://freshrpms.net/ Matthias Saou].
* Official AMD/ATI binary package available at [http://support.amd.com/ support.amd.com].

Don't use the live CD method. Burn the cd set from one of the spins or use the nreowtk cd method.You will need to find a server with the distribution tree for the release you chose.Try the fedora forums for help first.

== Related Links ==

* [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora Project] - the community who develop the Fedora distribution
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_%28operating_system%29 Fedora (operating system)] - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* [http://distrowatch.com/fedora DistroWatch.com: Fedora] - Third most popular distro for a very long time
* [http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?19-AMD-ATI-Linux Phoronix Forum: AMD/ATI Linux]

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