Fedora (Indonesian: fedɔ ː rə) (previously called Fedora Core, sometimes also called Fedora Linux) is an RPM-based Linux distribution developed by yum and the Fedora Project is supported by a community of programmers and sponsored by Red Hat. The name comes from the character Fedora fedora used in Red Hat logo. In release 1 to 6 of this distro called Fedora Core which then turned into Fedora on release to-7. Fedora Linux is recognized globally as a distro is a pioneer in the use of latest technology and is a distro that is used by Linus Torvalds.
One of the main vision of Fedora do not just contain software licensed under an open source and free software, but also a cutting edge technology. The developer ma
kes Fedora more significant changes than just fix especially for that update Fedora can be used by all Linux.
Compared to most non-Linux operating system, Fedora has a short life cycle. Version X is maintained only one month until the X version 2 was launched. With only 6 months difference, and only a 13-month treatment period each version. This can bring problems that may be using some version of Fedora for the development of products (ex, embedded systems) where the long-term support is more important than maintaining the software revision the most sophisticated
In 2008, Linus Trovalds, owner of the Linux kernel, says he uses Fedora because Fedora has a pretty good support for the PowerPC processor architecture, which he felt every time.
According to DistroWatch, Fedora operating system is the third most popular in June 2011, behind Ubuntu and Mint, and the distribution of the most popular Linux RPMs.
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