Fedora (operating system)

**Fedora Linux** is a distribution (or _distro_) of Linux. It is developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora's mission statement is: "Fedora is about the rapid progress of Free and Open Source software."

Linus Torvalds, author of the Linux kernel, says he uses Fedora because it had fairly good support for PowerPC when he used that processor architecture. He became used to the operating system and continues to use it.

### Fedora Core 1 - 4

_Fedora Core 1_, codenamed Yarrow, was the first version of Fedora. It was released on November 6, 2003. Fedora Core 1 was based on Red Hat Linux 9 and shipped with version 2.4.19 of the Linux kernel, version 2.4 of the GNOME desktop environment, and version 3.1.4 of KDE (the K Desktop Environment).

_Fedora Core 2_, codenamed Tettnang, was released on May 18, 2004. It shipped with Linux 2.6, GNOME 2.6, KDE 3.2.2, and SELinux XFree86 was replaced by the newer X.org, a merger of the previous official X11R6 release, which additionally included a number of updates to Xrender, Xft, Xcursor, fontconfig libraries, and other significant improvements.

_Fedora Core 3_, codenamed Heidelberg, was released on November 8, 2004. This was the first release of Fedora Core to include the Mozilla Firefox web browser, as well as support for the Indic languages. This release also replaced the LILO bootloader with GRUB. SELinux was also enabled by default, but with a new targeted policy, which was less strict than the policy used in Fedora Core 2. Fedora Core 3 shipped with GNOME 2.8 and KDE 3.3. It was the first release to include the new Fedora Extras repository.

_Fedora Core 4_, codenamed Stentz, was released on June 13, 2005. It shipped with Linux 2.6.11, KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10. This version introduced the new Clearlooks theme, which was inspired by the Red Hat Bluecurve theme. It also shipped with the OpenOffice.org 2.0 office suite, as well as Xen, a high performance and secure open source virtualization framework. It also introduced support for the PowerPC CPU architecture, and over 80 new policies for SELinux.

### Fedora Core 5 - 6

The last two cores introduced specific artwork for that version. This is a trend that has continued in later Fedora versions.

_Fedora Core 5_, codenamed Bordeaux, was released on March 20, 2006. It introduced the Fedora Bubbles artwork. It was the first Fedora release to include Mono and tools built with it such as Beagle, F-Spot and Tomboy. It also introduced new package management tools such as pup and pirut (_see Yellow dog Updater, Modified_). This release replaced the old LinuxThreads, with the Native POSIX Thread Library.

_Fedora Core 6_, codenamed Zod, was released on October 24, 2006. This release introduced the Fedora DNA artwork, replacing the Fedora Bubbles artwork used in Fedora Core 5. The codename is derived from the infamous villain, General Zod, from the Superman DC Comic Books. This version introduced support for the Compiz compositing window manager and AIGLX (a technology that enables GL-accelerated effects on a standard desktop). It shipped with Firefox 1.5 as the default web browser, and Smolt, a tool that allows users to inform developers about the hardware they use.

None of these distributions are maintained by the Fedora Project.

### Fedora 10

Fedora 10, codenamed _Cambridge_, was released on November 25, 2008.

### Version history

|Color|Meaning||
| --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:Salmon;"|Red|Release no longer supported|
|style="background:#a0e75a;"|Green|Release still supported|
|style="background:SkyBlue;"|Blue|Future release|

|Project Name|Version|Code name|Release date|Kernel version|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="background:Salmon;"|1|Yarrow|2003–11–05|2.4.19|
|style="background:Salmon;"|2|Tettnang|2004–05–18|2.6.5|
|style="background:Salmon;"|3|Heidelberg|2004–11–08|2.6.9|
|style="background:Salmon;"|4|Stentz|2005–06–13|2.6.11|
|style="background:Salmon;"|5|Bordeaux|2006–03–20|2.6.15|
|style="background:Salmon;"|6|Zod|2006–10–24|2.6.18|
|style="background:Salmon;"|7|Moonshine|2007–05–31|2.6.21|
|style="background:Salmon;"|8|Werewolf|2007–11–08|2.6.23|
|style="background:Salmon;"|9|Sulphur|2008–05–13|2.6.25|
|style="background:Salmon;"|10|Cambridge|2008–11–25|2.6.27|
|style="background:Salmon;"|11|Leonidas|2009–06–09|2.6.29|
|style="background:Salmon;"|12|Constantine|2009–11–17|2.6.31|
|style="background:Salmon;"|13|Goddard|2010–05–11|2.6.33|
|style="background:Salmon;"|14|Laughlin|2010-11-02|2.6.35|
|style="background:Salmon;"|15|Lovelock|2011-05-24|2.6.38|
|style="background:Salmon;"|16|Verne|2011-11-08|3.1.0|
|style="background:Salmon;"|17|Beefy Miracle|2012-05-29|3.3.7|
|style="background:Salmon;"|18|Spherical Cow|Late 2012|3.6|
|style="background:Salmon;"|19|Schrödinger's Cat|2013-07-02|3.9|
|style="background:Salmon;"|20|Heisenbug|2013-12-17|3.11|
|style="background:Salmon;"|21||2014-12-09|3.17|
|style="background:Salmon;"|22||2015-05-26|4.0|
|style="background:Salmon;"|23||2015-11-03|4.2|
|style="background:Salmon;"|24||2016-06-21|4.5|
|style="background:Salmon;"|25||2016-11-22|4.8|
|style="background:Salmon;"|26||2017-07-11|4.11|
|style="background:Salmon;"|27||2017-11-14|4.13|
|style="background:Salmon;"|28||2018-05-01|4.16|
|style="background:Salmon;"|29||2018-10-30|4.18|
|style="background:#a0e75a;"|30||2019-04-30|5.0|
|style="background:#a0e75a;"|31||2019-10-22|5.3|
|style="background:SkyBlue;"|32||2020-04-21||

## Related pages

- List of Linux distributions

## Other websites

- Fedora Project homepage

## Infobox (os)

- **name**: Fedora Linux
- **logo**: Fedora logo (2021).svg
- **caption**: Fedora Workstation 35 — its default desktop environment (GNOME 41), Wallpaper (computing), background image, and applications
- **developer**: Fedora Project
- **family**: Linux (Unix-like)
- **working state**: Current
- **source model**: Open-source software, Open source
- **latest release version**: 42
- **marketing target**: Desktop computer, Desktop, Server (computing), server, Cloud computing, cloud
- **package manager**: RPM Package Manager, RPM (DNF (software), DNF), Flatpak, OSTree — graphical front-ends: GNOME Software, dnfdragora, KDE Discover
- **supported platforms**: * Primary: x86-64, armhf, aarch64
* Alternative: mips64el, mipsel, ppc64le, RISC-V, s390x
- **kernel type**: Monolithic kernel, Monolithic (Linux kernel)
- **userland**: GNU Core Utilities, GNU
- **ui**: GNOME Shell on Wayland (display server protocol), Wayland
- **license**: GNU GPL, GPL and various free software licenses, plus proprietary firmware files