The Fedora Legacy project is a community-supported open-source project to provide updates for versions of Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core no longer officially supported by Red Hat. Currently, it has packages for Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 9, and Fedora Core 1 and 2. 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. ... Red Hat Linux is a Linux distribution, which was one of the most popular. ... Fedora Core running GNOME Fedora Core (sometimes incorrectly called Fedora Linux) is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat, and derived from the original Red Hat Linux distribution. ... For the corporation that produces Red Hat Enterprise Linux, see Red Hat. ...
External link
The Fedora Legacy Project web site (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/)
The FedoraLegacy Project is a community-supported open source project to extend the lifecycle of select 'maintenace mode' Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core distributions.
To be sure FedoraLegacy resources are trustworthy, the use of GPG keys is used when and where possible.
FedoraLegacy is a community project that is trying to provide free security updates (not bug fixes) to select legacy Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core Linux releases, for a short period of time.