Fedora

Fedora (in the past Fedora Core ) is a distribution GNU/Linux based on the system RPM and which is developed by the Projet Fedora and sponsored by Red Hat. This distribution wants to be to be an operating system complete and general and only made up of Free software and Open source. Fedora derives from the distribution Red Hat Linux and is intended to replace the version customer of Red Hat Linux which was intended to the end users. The support of Fedora comes mainly from the community. Although Red Hat uses many developers for Fedora, the company does not provide official assistance for the users lambda. The new versions of Fedora leave with interval approximately 6 to 8 months.

History

The Projet Fedora began at the end of 2003, when Red Hat Linux was abandoned. Red Hat thus advised with the users making a professional use of Red Hat Linux pass to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) while the users who made a personal use of it were advised to turn to Fedora. Since RHEL is the only distribution Linux for which Red Hat provides officially an assistance.

The various versions of RHEL being based on that from Fedora, several criticisms were emitted on the fact that the users of Fedora find being of beta testers of RHEL. (see Correspondences RHL/RHEL).

With the first exit of Fedora, Red Hat launched a tendency which was followed by several salesmen of distributions Linux: that to form a distribution for the community close to a commercial distribution, with the Community distribution being used as driving development process open to the commercial distribution.

Software deposits

Fedora Core

The distribution GNU/Linux Fedora Core, made up exclusively of free software, follows a mode of opened development, Community type.

Fedora Extras

Fedora Extras is a whole of software complementary to Fedora Core. This software can be recovered via various deposits in the form of packages RPM. The site FedoraTracker provides the necessary informations to configure the tools of installation YUM and APT. Other software of various sources is called Third party and are not guaranteed.

Alternatives & Legacy

  • Fedora Legacy aims to produce updated and corrective measures of safety for the distributions Fedora Core at the end of the lifetime.

The project Fedora Legacy stopped in January 2007 (see the advertisement here).

  • Fedora Alternatives indicates versions different from certain software.

Change

Beginning 2007, RedHat decided to amalgamate Fedora Core and Fedora Extras . This fusion is effective since the version 7 (which is thus entitled Fedora 7 and not Fedora Core 7).

The name

The name of the distribution comes from the project Fedora Linux (a project carried out by the voluntary ones having for objective to provide third software to the distribution Red Hat Linux) and hat worn by the silhouette of the logo of Red Hat (it is about a borsalino). Red Hat had some problems about the name Fedora with the creators of the management software of the Fedora deposit, because Fedora tried to deposit it like name of mark.

Fedora is sometimes called Fedora Linux although it is not its official name. The name Core makes the distinction between the principal Fedora packages and those of the project Fedora Extras, which bring additional packages to Fedora Core. The difference between these two deposits is that the Core deposit is managed by Red Hat and that the Extras deposit is managed by the voluntary ones.

A decision was made so that after Fedora Core 6, the two deposits are gathered in only one.

Thus since version 7, Core disappeared to become Fedora.

Versions

Fedora Core 1

The first version of Fedora Core left on November 6th, 2003, it was based on Red Hat Linux 9 and was provided with version 2.4.19 of the Noyau Linux, version 2.4.0-1 of the Environnement of office GNOME and version 3.1.4. - 6 of KDE.

Fedora Core 2

Fedora Core 3

Fedora Core 3 was used as a basis for RHEL 4.

Fedora Core 4

Fedora Core 4 is known to have been one of the distributions most used in company.

Fedora Core 5

Fedora Core 6

It was the first version of Fedora to be integrated, inter alia, the office 3D Compiz and the environment of Virtualisation Xen

Fedora 7

After eight month of development, the new major version of the Fedora distribution left on May 31st, 2007. Obviously, of pretty innovations made their appearance in addition to the traditional updates of the components:

Core 2.6.21 (new pile FireWire, new management system of energy, new management of the discs P-ATA, news crushes Wifi)

- Presence of Xen 3.1 and KVM
- A new graphic environment for SELinux
- Smolt (material report/ratio)
- GNOME 2.18
- KDE 3.5.6
- Compiz 0.3.6
- Integration of the “New” project (free pilot 3D for charts NVIDIA)
- Firefox 2.0
- Thunderbird 2.0
- OpenOffice.org 2.2
- KOffice 1.6.2
- The Gimp 2.2.14
- Development: Eclipse 3.2, Mono 1.2.3, Python 2.5

Fedora 8

Current version diffused under the name of Werewolf.

Fedora 9

The next version announced by Fedora for on May 1st, 2008.

Tools

RPM - RPM Package Manager

RPM is a management system (installation and desinstallation) of packages of Logiciel S developed by RedHat for its distributions Linux, and largely used or supported by a great number of other distributions.

YUM - Yellow dog Updater, Modified

Yum is a management system (remote loading and resolution of dependences) packages of Logiciel S developed by Yellow Dog making it possible to automate the resolutions of dependence of certain packages as well as the installation of the updates.

YUM is used with orders or an graphical interface: Yumex, Pirut or Kyum for example.

Some orders:

  • yum install nom_paquet : install a package (and dependences so necessary).
  • yum remove nom_paquet : désinstalle a package (and manages the dependant dependences).
  • yum check-update : seek the setting-with-day of the programs installed.
  • yum update : updates all the programs installed.

APT - Advanced Packaging Tool

APT is a management system (remote loading and resolution of dependences) packages of Logiciel S developed by Debian for its Linux distributions and used in other distributions based on Debian. APT brings a larger smoothness in the follow-up of the updates and the desinstallation, thanks to additional details of dependences, and more possibilities of personalization. APT rests on dpkg which is him even about equivalent with RPM. APT-RPM is a bearing of tools APT for the distributions based on RPM such as Fedora. The use of APT, since the last versions, is not recommended. The users are encouraged to use YUM in the place.

Distributions based on Fedora Core

  • Aurox, a multi-media directed distribution based on Fedora Core.
  • BLAG, a distribution concentrated on CD.
  • LinuxTLE, a distribution inhabitant of Thailand.
  • Yellow Dog Linux, a distribution linux for the computers equipped with processors PowerPC and for the PlayStation 3.
  • Yoper

External bonds

  • the project Fedora
  • the French-speaking Community Fedora Core (nonofficial)
  • FAQ nonofficial
  • To transform Fedora into Multi-media Fedora by Eric Raymond
  • Tutoriaux on Fedora Core 6

Simple: Fedora Core

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