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
Darwin (operating system) in Terminal will show the Darwin version number, and the command uname -v will show the XNU build version string, which includes the Darwin version number. Due to the free software nature of Darwin, there are many projects that aim to modify or enhance the operating system. OpenDarwin was a community-led operating system based on the Darwin system. It was founded in April 2002 by Apple Inc. and Internet Systems Consortium. Its goal was to increase collaboration between Apple developers and the free software community. Apple benefited from the project because improvements to OpenDarwin would be incorporated into Darwin releases;