Fedora

What is Fedora?

Fedora is a well known open source Linux-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 supported by Red Hat.

According to the Fedora Project, Fedora is “in every case free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.” Fedora is supposed to be the second-most commonly used Linux distribution, 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.

What Makes Fedora Different?

Fedora Is Completely Free

Every component in Fedora from the kernel to the included apps is open source. If you’re wondering what open source actually means, it’s when a software’s code is publicly accessible by anyone. The reason we have lots of Linux distributions (distros) is due to the fact that Linux is open source.

Fedora Is Easy to Use

There are a lot of Linux distros that appeal to beginners, and Fedora is one of them. Its software center provides access to many popular apps like Slack, Steam, Firefox, etc. If you don’t find an app, it could be available for Fedora but isn’t listed in the store.

Security

Fedora Linux uses Security-Enhanced Linux by default, which implements a variety of security policies, including mandatory access controls, which Fedora adopted early on. Fedora provides a hardening wrapper, and does hardening for all of its packages by using compiler features such as position-independent executable (PIE).