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Fedora is an RPM-based, general purpose Linux distribution, 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 software." One of Fedora's main objectives is to not only contain free and open source software, but also to be on the leading edge of such technologies.
Also, developers in Fedora prefer to make upstream changes instead of applying fixes specifically for Fedora - this ensures that
updates are available to all Linux distributions. The latest release of Fedora is Fedora 8, which
was released on 8 November 2007. The Fedora Project was created in late 2003,
when Red Hat Linux was discontinued.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) would continue to be Red Hat's only officially supported Linux distribution, while Fedora was
to be a community project and distribution.
RHEL branches its releases from versions of Fedora. The name of Fedora derives from Fedora Linux, a volunteer project that provided extra software for the Red Hat Linux distribution, and from the characteristic fedora used in Red Hat "Shadowman" logo.
Fedora Linux was eventually absorbed into the Fedora Project.
Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat.
Although this has previously been disputed by the creators of the Fedora repository management software, the issue has now been resolved. Before Fedora 7, there were two main repositories -
the Fedora Core and Fedora Extras.
Fedora Core (also the name of the distribution) contained all the base packages that were required by the operating system, as well as other packages that were distributed along with the installation CD/DVDs.
Fedora Extras, the secondary repository that was included from Fedora Core 3, was community-maintained and not distributed along with the installation CD/DVDs. Since Fedora 7, the Core and Extras repositories have been merged, hence the distribution's dropping the Core from its name. Also prior to Fedora 7 being released, there was a
third repository called Fedora Legacy.
This repository was community-maintained and was mainly concerned with extending the life cycle of older Fedora Core distributions and selected Red Hat Linux releases that were no longer officially maintained.
Fedora Legacy was shut down in December 2006. One of the many security features in Fedora is Security-Enhanced Linux, a Linux feature that implements a variety of security policies, including U.S. Department of Defense style mandatory access controls, through the use of Linux Security Modules (LSM) in the Linux kernel.
Fedora is leading the way with SELinux-based distributions,
having introduced it in Fedora Core 2.
It was disabled by default, as it radically altered how the operating system worked, but was enabled by default in Fedora Core 3
and introduced a less strict, targeted policy.
Fedora also has methods in place to prevent buffer overflow exploits and root kits from functioning. Compile time buffer checks, Exec Shield and restrictions on how kernel memory in /dev/mem can be accessed help to prevent this.
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