• Fedora is a popular open sourceLinux-based operating system.
• Fedora is designed as a secure, general purpose operating system. The operating system is developed on a six-month release cycle, under the auspices of the Fedora Project. Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat.
• According to the Fedora Project, Fedora is “always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.” Fedora is said to be the second-most commonly used Linuxdistribution, after Ubuntu. There are over a hundred distributions based on Fedora, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project’s XO operating system.

Source: Lucent’s Computer