Fedora (operating system) Fedora (operating system) Fedora is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora is the upstream source of the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. Since the release of Fedora 21, three different editions are currently available: "Workstation", focused on the personal computer, "Server" for servers, and "Atomic" focused on cloud computing. , Fedora has an estimated 1.2 million users, including Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel. Fedora has a reputation
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