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Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 29, 2023
Although Linux is often considered Windows' greatest rival, there's not a single definitive Linux operating system. Rather, there is a complex environment of several Linux-based OSes to choose from. For Linux users who prioritize professional software with the latest features, Fedora is the premiere Linux OS, and it's primarily used for workstations, servers, and more. Here's everything you need to know about Fedora.
If you're not super familiar with Linux, you might think it's just like Windows except open source, but that's not exactly correct. Instead, there are lots of Linux-based operating systems out there, and they can be completely different from each other. Linux-based operating systems are distributions, or distros, of Linux. And they distribute the Linux kernel, which is what defines a Linux OS as a Linux OS. The kernel is essentially the core of the operating system, but it's mostly under the hood and not something you interact with directly. It's the job of the distribution to add a front-end on top of the kernel so that users have something to actually use besides a basic command line terminal.
Ever since its initial release two decades ago, Fedora has been maintained by the Fedora Project, which has received open-source contributions from both the community as a whole as well as Red Hat, one of IBM's subsidiaries. There are five editions of Fedora: Workstation, Silverblue, Server, IoT (Internet of Things), and CoreOS. Plus, there are some purpose-specific versions via the Fedora Labs bundles. Fedora is also an upstream distro, or a distro that other Linux OSes take and use as a foundation. Notably, Fedora is the upstream distro of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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