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Fedora is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat.[8] Fedora contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies.[9][10][11] Fedora is the upstream source of the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution.[12]

Since the release of Fedora 21, three different editions are currently available: Workstation, focused on the personal computer, Server for servers, and Atomic focused on cloud computing.[13]

As of February 2016, Fedora has an estimated 1.2 million users,[14] including Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.[15][16] he most recent release of Fedora Linux, Fedora 18, debuted in January 2013 and is nicknamed the "Spherical Cow." Fedora 18 utilizes GNOME 3.6.3 for its desktop interface and includes, among its other new features and additions, UEFI Secure Boot support, KDE 4.9, Xfce 4.10, improved Active Directory support, and the OpenStack Folsom open source cloud platform.

Fedora is an open-source operating system built over the Linux OS kernel architecture and developed by a group of developers and contributors under the Fedora Project.

Fedora is a free to use, customize and distribute. The operating system is integrated with packaged software and applications to provide enhanced abilities and functions. Fedora OS provides the same functionality, processes and usability as a typical operating system, and includes a suite of collaboration tools, office productivity applications, media playback, virus protection and other desktop application and services.

Fedora is generally released and updated every six months and provides only one month of support for the previous version, where each new release is built on top of the kernel or OS framework. Fedora-based variants are further published under different names and are commonly known as Fedora Spins. They include operating system such as Red Hat Linux enterprise edition, CentOS and XO.