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Fedora Core (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Fedora Linux) is an RPM-based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat, and derived from the original Red Hat Linux distribution.
The Fedora Project has the goal of building a complete, general-purpose operating system from free software. Fedora came about as a result of a new business strategy which Red Hat implemented late in 2003. The Project envisages that conventional Linux home users will use Fedora Core, and intends that it replace the consumer distributions of Red Hat Linux. (Red Hat has positioned Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a business-oriented Linux distribution, and it offers software support for that distribution.) Support for Fedora comes from the greater community.
Fedora Core 2 (FC2, release name Tettnang), reached release on May 18, 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co. It includes version 2.6 of the Linux kernelLinux mascot Tux created by Larry Ewing. In computing, the Linux kernel is a free Unix-like operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and subsequently improved with the assistance of developers around the world. It was originally developed, GNOME 2.6, KDEKDE K D esktop E nvironment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltech's Qt toolkit. It runs on most Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux, BSD and Solaris. There are also ports to Mac OS X using its X11 layer and Mic 3.2.1, and SELinux. This version also replaced XFree86XFree86 is a free and Open Source windowing system for bitmap displays implementation. It is based on the X Window System which runs under many Unix-like operating systems, and on Windows NT as part of the Cygwin environment. Until early 2004, it was almo with the XOrg Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11The XOrg Foundation Open Source Public Implementation of X11 (the XOrg Server is the official reference implementation of the X Window System. The current release is X11R6. 1, released 17 September 2004. It is open source and free software. The project is. This release occasioned many complaints because of its problems with installation while dual-booting with Windows XP (actually caused by an issue with the 2.6 kernel's handling of partitions).
Fedora Core 3 (FC3, release name Heidelberg), the current stable version, was released on November 8, 2004 for the i386 and AMD64 architectures. It includes version 2.6.9 of the Linux kernel, Xorg 6.8.1, GNOME 2.8 and KDE 3.3.0.