Fedora Linux is a free and open-source operating system based on Linux. It is developed by the community-run Fedora Project with sponsorship from Red Hat. The distribution is intended to emphasize current technologies and a secure design; the project describes its purpose as "Fedora is about the rapid progress of Free and Open Source software."
Purpose and audience
Fedora aims to provide a platform where new ideas and software can be integrated and tested while remaining fully open source. The distribution is commonly chosen by organizations that need a modern, safe operating system and is deployed by a variety of companies and governments.
Development and releases
Work on Fedora is coordinated by volunteers and contributors from multiple backgrounds, including individuals and corporate engineers. The project focuses on incorporating recent upstream innovations and providing a consistent, community-driven release process that helps feed improvements back into the wider free-software ecosystem.
Notable users
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, has reported that he has used Fedora. He chose it in part because of its historical support for PowerPC processors when he worked with that architecture, and he remained a user thereafter.