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Fedora Core running KDE

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.

The Fedora Project has the goal of building a complete, general-purpose operating system from open source software. Fedora came about as a result of a new business strategy which Red Hat implemented late in 2003. The Project envisages that conventional Linux home users will use Fedora Core, and intends that it replace the consumer distributions of Red Hat Linux. (Red Hat has positioned Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a business-oriented Linux distribution, and it offers software support for that distribution.) Support for Fedora comes from the greater community.

Versions

Stable

Fedora Core 3 (FC3, release name Heidelberg), the current stable version, was released on November 8, 2004 for the i386 and AMD64 architectures. It includes version 2.6.9 of the Linux kernel, Xorg 6.8.1, GNOME 2.8 and KDE 3.3.0.

Fedora Core 2 (FC2, release name Tettnang), reached release on May 18, 2004. It includes version 2.6 of the Linux kernel, GNOME 2.6, KDE 3.2.1, and SELinux. This version also replaced XFree86 with the XOrg Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11. This release occasioned many complaints because of its problems with installation while dual-booting with Windows XP (actually caused by an issue with the 2.6 kernel's handling of partitions).

Unstable

As there has not been a test release since the official release of Fedora Core 3, there currently are no unstable releases of Fedora Core. Fedora Core 4 Test 1 will be the next Unstable release of Fedora Core, which will be released on February 21, 2005.

The Preliminary Release Date of Fedora Core 4 Test Version is shown as follows:

  • Feb 21, 2005 - Fedora Core 4 Test 1
  • March 21, 2005 - Fedora Core 4 Test 2
  • April 18, 2005 - Fedora Core 4 Test 3
  • May 16, 2005 - Preliminary Release Date of Fedora Core 4 (this release will be stable)

Discontinued

Fedora Core 1 (FC1, internal codename Cambridge, release name Yarrow) released on November 6, 2003 was discontinued on November 20, 2004 and moved to the Fedora Legacy Project. Improvements over Red Hat Linux 9 included automated updates with yum, improved laptop support with ACPI and cpufreq, and prelinking for faster program start time. An AMD64 version appeared in March 2004.

See also

Official sites

Download sites

Unofficial sites

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