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
Embedded operating system Embedded operating system An embedded operating system is an operating system for embedded computer systems. This type of operating system is typically designed to be resource-efficient and reliable. Resource efficiency comes at the cost of losing some functionality or granularity that larger computer operating systems provide, including functions which may not be used by the specialized applications they run. Depending on the method used for multitasking, this type of OS is frequently considered to be a real-time operating system, or "RTOS". The hardware running an embedded operating system can be very limited in resources such as RAM and ROM, therefore