17 Facts About Fedora Linux

Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project.

Fedora Linux contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of open-source technologies.

Fedora Linux has a relatively short life cycle: each version is usually supported for at least 13 months, where version X is supported only until 1 month after version X+2 is released and with approximately 6 months between most versions.

Default desktop environment in Fedora Linux is GNOME and the default user interface is the GNOME Shell.

Fedora Linux uses Delta RPM when updating installed packages to provide delta updates.

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Fedora Linux uses Security-Enhanced Linux by default, which implements a variety of security policies, including mandatory access controls, which Fedora adopted early on.

Fedora Linux provides a hardening wrapper, and does hardening for all of its packages by using compiler features such as position-independent executable .

Fedora Linux comes preinstalled with a wide range of software such as LibreOffice and Firefox.

Fedora Linux provides users with an easy-to-use build system for creating their own repositories called Copr.

The descriptive name for this product is ?image-mode container-based Fedora Linux Workstation based on rpm-ostree, which is clear but unsuitable for branding.

Fedora AOS was a specialized spin of Fedora Linux with reduced memory footprint for use in software appliances.

The current official spins, as of Fedora Linux 34, are KDE, Xfce, LXQt, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, SoaS, and i3.

Fedora Linux 28 was the last release that supported ppc64 and users are advised to move to the little endian ppc64le variant.

The original Fedora Linux was eventually absorbed into the Fedora Project, carrying with it this collaborative approach.

The Fedora Linux Project is sponsored primarily by Red Hat with additional support and sponsors from other companies and organizations.

Fedora Linux, then known as "Fedora Core" was a fork of Red Hat Linux launched in 2003, when Red Hat Linux was discontinued so the team can focus on their paid version for servers Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Fedora Linux has a relatively short life cycle: version X is supported only until 1 month after version X+2 is released and with approximately 6 months between most versions, meaning a version of Fedora Linux is usually supported for at least 13 months, possibly longer.