Fedora is an RPM-based, general purpose collection of software, including Linux kernel based operating system, developed by a community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free software and open source and content as a collaborative community.
One of the main goals Fedora does not only contain software distributed under a free license and open source, but also at the leading edge technologies such as Fedora developers prefer to make upstream changes instead of implementing specific improvements. for Fedora-this ensures that updates them available to all Linux distributions.
Compared with the more main stream system of non-Linux operating Fedora has a short life cycles. Version X is maintained until one month after version X +2 is released. With six months between releases, the maintenance period is 13 months is very short for each version This can cause problems should one wish to use a specific version of Fedora for product development (ie, embedded systems) where long-term support. more important than maintaining the forefront of the software revision.
In 2008, Linus Torvalds, author of the Linux kernel,
