Fedora Core

Fedora Core 6 running GNOME
Website:	fedoraproject.org
Company/ developer:	Fedora Project
OS family:	Linux
Source model:	Open source
Latest stable release:	Core 6 / October 24, 2006
Update method:	Yum
Package manager:	RPM Package Manager
Supported platforms:	i386, AMD64, PowerPC
Kernel type:	Monolithic kernel
Default user interface:	GNOME
License:	Various
Working state:	Current

Fedora Core is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. It aims to be a complete, general-purpose operating system that contains only free and open source software.^[1][2] Fedora Core is derived from the original Red Hat Linux distribution, and it is intended to replace the consumer distributions of Red Hat Linux aimed towards home users. Support for Fedora comes from the greater community; While Red Hat employs many of the Fedora developers, it does not provide official end-user support for the distribution. New releases of Fedora come out every six to eight months. Image File history File links Fedoralogo. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A gnome (or Nisse) hiding behind a toadstool. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... The term software company could be applied to; a) a company that produces software or b) a company that distributes software from a third party or c) a company that provides services for software. ... A software developer is a programmer who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming. ... The Fedora Project logo The Fedora Project is the community responsible for producing the Fedora Core (FC) Linux distribution and Fedora Extras, along with a variety of other projects. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family that uses the Linux kernel. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The Yellow dog Updater, Modified (YUM) is an open source command line package management utility for RPM-compatible Linux computer systems. ... The RPM Logo RPM Package Manager (originally Red Hat Package Manager, abbreviated RPM) is a package management system. ... The Intel 80386 is a microprocessor which was used as the central processing unit (CPU) of many personal computers from 1986 until 1994 and later. ... AMD64 Logo AMD64 (also x86-64 or x64) is a 64-bit microprocessor architecture and corresponding instruction set designed by Advanced Micro Devices. ... IBM PowerPC 601 Microprocessor PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... A kernel connects the application software to the hardware of a computer. ... Graphical overview of a monolithic kernel A monolithic kernel defines a high-level virtual interface over the hardware, with a set of primitives or system calls to implement operating system services such as process management, concurrency, and memory management in several modules that run in supervisor mode. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... A gnome (or Nisse) hiding behind a toadstool. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The RPM Logo RPM Package Manager (originally Red Hat Package Manager, abbreviated RPM) is a package management system. ... It has been suggested that Linux be merged into this article or section. ... The Fedora Project logo The Fedora Project is the community responsible for producing the Fedora Core (FC) Linux distribution and Fedora Extras, along with a variety of other projects. ... Red Hat, Inc. ... An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... ... Red Hat Linux was a popular Linux distribution assembled by Red Hat until the early 2000s, when it was discontinued. ...

History

The Fedora Project was created in late 2003, when Red Hat Linux was discontinued. Red Hat recommended that commercial Red Hat Linux users switch to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), which continues to be Red Hat's only officially-supported Linux distribution, while providing Fedora Core for more casual users. RHEL branches its releases from versions of Fedora Core, which has led some critics to observe that Fedora Core users are in effect beta testers for RHEL. See the RHEL page for the versions of Fedora Core and their corresponding RHEL versions. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. ...

Red Hat's release of Fedora Core started a popular trend amongst commercial Linux distribution vendors, that of creating a community distribution closely related to a commercial distribution, with the community distribution acting as an open development lab leading to the commercial distribution.^{[citation needed]} See Commercial and community Linux distributions by the same vendor. Red Hats release of Fedora Core started a popular trend amongst commercial Linux distribution vendors (and even one Unix vendor), that of creating a community distribution closely related to a commercial distribution, with the community distribution acting as a faster developing, testing bed for the commercial distribution. ...

Naming

The name derives from Fedora Linux, a volunteer project that provided extra software for the Red Hat Linux distribution, and from the characteristic fedora used in Red Hat "Shadowman" logo. Fedora Linux was eventually absorbed into the Fedora Project.^[3] Red Hat has been tangled in disputes with the creators of the Fedora repository management software over the name, on which Red Hat has attempted to secure trademark rights.^[4] A fedora, which in this case has been pinched at the front and being worn pushed back on the head, with the front of the brim bent down over the eyes. ... Fedora (or Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) (not to be confused with Fedora Core) is a modular architecture built on the principle that interoperability and extensibility is best achieved by the integration of data, interfaces, and mechanisms (i. ...

Fedora is sometimes called Fedora Linux and Fedora Core Linux, though these are not official names. The word "Core" distinguishes the main Fedora packages from those of the Fedora Extras project, which provides add-ons to Fedora Core. The difference between these two repositories is that Red Hat maintains the Core packages, while packages in Extras are maintained by volunteers. == Fedora Extras Project == The Fedora Extras project, sponsored by Red Hat and maintained by the Fedora community, provides hundreds of high-quality software packages to augment the software available in Fedora Core. ...

After Fedora Core 6 it was decided to merge the Core and Extras repository ^[5], and the next release will be known as Fedora 7.

Overview

Fedora Core is distributed in a five-CD set or on a single DVD; only the first two CDs are required for a basic installation. Network installations over HTTP, FTP, and NFS are also supported. GNOME is Fedora Core's default desktop environment; KDE is also included on the official CDs and DVDs. GNU GRUB is the default boot loader. Fedora is designed to be easily installed and configured, including a suite of simple graphical installers and configuration tools. The default file system is ext3 over LVM and the package management system is RPM. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web. ... FTP or File Transfer Protocol is used to transfer data from one computer to another over the Internet, or through a network. ... Network File System (NFS), a protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984 and defined in RFCs 1094, 1813, and 3530 (obsoletes 3010) as a distributed file system, allows a user on a client computer to access files over a network as easily as if attached to its local disks. ... A gnome (or Nisse) hiding behind a toadstool. ... KDE (K Desktop Environment) (IPA: ) is a free software project which aims to be a powerful ecosystem for an easy-to-use desktop environment. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The ext3 or third extended filesystem is a journalled file system that is commonly used by the Linux operating system. ... LVM can stand for: Logical volume management, a method of transparently storing computer data spread over several partitions Logical Volume Manager, an implementation of logical volume management in the Linux kernel Ludwig von Mises Institute, a paleolibertarian academic organisation Local vibrational mode, a type of vibrational mode Category: ... The RPM Logo RPM Package Manager (originally Red Hat Package Manager, abbreviated RPM) is a package management system. ...

Fedora Core is intended to be distributed on CD and DVD media, and it only contains a small selection of packages. There are available several software repositories with extra software to complete the distribution. The official ones are Fedora Core, with an image of the whole system, Fedora Updates, with new versions, and Fedora Extras, which contains almost 7,000 packages. There is also a number of unofficial repositories that provide additional software that is not packaged by Extras, often due to copyright and patent issues.

Software package management is handled by the yum utility; graphical interfaces to yum called "pirut" and "pup" (the latter solely for updates) are provided, as well as "puplet", a panel notification applet. apt-rpm can also be used; a multi-lib capable version capable of using native yum metadata is included in Extras. Red Hat and the package maintainers release patches and updates regularly that can be installed with these tools. The Yellow dog Updater, Modified (YUM) is an open source command line package management utility for RPM-compatible Linux computer systems. ... apt-rpm is a version of the Advanced Packaging Tool modified to work with the RPM Package Manager. ... Red Hat, Inc. ...

Releases

Fedora Core 4

Compiz and AIGLX support in Fedora Core 6

The Fedora Project has released six stable versions of Fedora Core. Each stable release is preceded by three test releases, which allow users to test and give feedback on new features in the upcoming stable release. Fedora Core also has a set of "bleeding-edge" repositories called "Rawhide" containing packages currently under development. New packages that end up in Fedora Core (and later, Red Hat Enterprise Linux) are first added to Rawhide; while not for everyday use, some developers and testers use it as a primary operating system. Image File history File links Fedora_Core_4_desktop. ... Image File history File links Fedora_Core_4_desktop. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 1024 pixel, file size: 232 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Compiz running on AIGLX - Fedora Core 6 I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 1024 pixel, file size: 232 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Compiz running on AIGLX - Fedora Core 6 I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify... Compiz is one of the first compositing window managers for the X Window System that is able to take advantage of OpenGL-acceleration. ... AIGLX running with Compiz on Fedora Core 6 Accelerated Indirect GLX (AIGLX) is an open source project founded by the X.Org Foundation and the Fedora Core community to allow accelerated indirect GLX rendering capabilities to X.org and DRI drivers. ... Rawhide is the development tree for the Fedora Core Linux distribution. ...

The Fedora Project does not provide updates for versions of Fedora Core older than the two most recently released. The Fedora Legacy Project was tasked with providing security updates for older Fedora Core releases^[6]; As of February 07, 2007, due to a lack of community participation and funding, the project ceased providing updates ^[7]. Users needing longer support lifetimes are often encouraged by community members to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux or one of its clones. February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones are Linux distributions which are closely based on the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. ...

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Test releases

Fedora is subject to continuous development. Several test releases are produced before the final release. The next version of Fedora will be Fedora 7.^[8]

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Re-spins

The Fedora Unity project produces ISO images of the installation media with all the updated packages. These special editions are called re-spins, and their utility is to save the user from having to download all the updates after an installation. Fedora Unity is a community project to build comprehensive and concise websites and content that provide Fedora Core users and contributors with quality information. ...

Distributions based on Fedora Core

• Aurox, a multimedia oriented Fedora Core-based distribution.
• Berry Linux, a medium-sized Fedora Core-based distribution that provides support for Japanese and English.
• Fox Linux, a Fedora Core-based distribution made in Italy, designed for basic home computing tasks such as browsing the Web, writing and printing documents, using multimedia and burning discs.
• BLAG Linux and GNU, a stripped down 1-CD Fedora Core with Debian's apt system.
• LinuxTLE, a Thai distribution produced by NECTEC
• MythDora, a distribution based around MythTV's media center capabilities.
• Yellow Dog Linux, a Fedora Core-based distribution for the PowerPC platform.
• Aurora SPARC Linux, a Fedora Core-based distribution for the SPARC platform.
• YOPER
• CCRMA is a music/realtime distribution based on Fedora Core

Sony's PlayStation 3 is capable of running the PowerPC version of Fedora Core^[9], as well as Yellow Dog Linux and Gentoo. These three are the only third-party operating systems that have been demonstrated to be compatible with the PS3. However, other distributions have been proven to work but have not been officially documented.^{[citation needed]} Young polish distribution based Fedora Core (before RedHat), with emphasis for multimedia, graphics, localization and education. ... Berry Linux is a LiveCD Linux distribution based on Fedora Core. ... Fox Linux is an Italian distribution of the Linux operating system. ... BLAG Linux and GNU is a Linux distribution made by the Brixton Linux Action Group. ... Linux TLE is an Thai Linux distribution based on Red Hat Linux. ... Thailands National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) is a statutory government organization under the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Ministry of Science and Technology. ... MythDora is a specialized Linux distribution based on Fedora Core. ... MythTV is a Linux application that turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or Home Theater Personal Computer. ... A screenshot of Yellow Dog Linux 4. ... Aurora SPARC Linux is a Linux distribution, based on Fedora Core, for SPARC-based computers. ... Yoper running on KDE Desktop. ... PlayStation 3 , trademarked PLAYSTATION®3,[8] commonly abbreviated PS3) is Sony Computer Entertainments seventh-generation video game console, third in the PlayStation series. ... IBM PowerPC 601 Microprocessor PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... A screenshot of Yellow Dog Linux 4. ... For other uses, see: Gentoo (disambiguation) Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution. ...

Fedora's wiki also has a list of derived distributions.

See also

Free software Portal

• Red Hat Linux
• List of Linux distributions
• Comparison of Linux distributions

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References

1. ^ Fedora Project Objectives (2006-12-19). Retrieved on 2007-02-12.
2. ^ Max Spevack. Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack Responds. Retrieved on 2006-12-17.
3. ^ Fedora Network Proposal. Retrieved on 2006-07-28.
4. ^ Red Hat Inc.'s Use of The Fedora Name. Retrieved on 2006-07-28.
5. ^ Fedora 7. Retrieved on 2007-01-17.
6. ^ Legacy - Fedora Project Wiki. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
7. ^ Fedora Legacy Project. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
8. ^ Fedora * 7 PRELIMINARY Schedule
9. ^ Fedora Linux on PS3 with Voiceover. Retrieved on 2007-02-19.

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External links

• Fedora Project homepage
• Fedora Project overview page on redhat.com
• FedoraNEWS
• FedoraForum.org Official Fedora Support Forum since May 4, 2005
• Screenshots of Fedora Core 6 at OSDir.com
• Fedora Core at DistroWatch