Fedora Linux is a Linux distribution supported by the Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Its roots go to a volunteer project begun in 2002 by Warren Togami to provide extra, high-quality software packages for Red Hat Linux. In 2003 Red Hat discontinued its own boxed Red Hat Linux product and merged the volunteer effort into the Fedora Project, which produced the first release as Fedora Core in November 2003. Fedora offers recent software and quickly adopts new technologies, and it serves as a testing ground for features that later appear in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It uses the RPM package format and has GNOME as its default desktop. The Fedora name comes from the fedora hat in the Red Hat logo.
Before and after
- 11 December 2001China joins the World Trade Organization
- 13 December 20012001 Indian Parliament attack
- 2002Creation of Haiku
- 2002Construction of Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- 2002Creation of Fedora Linux
- 2002Release of OpenOffice.org
- January 2002Release of Azerbaijani Wikipedia
- 2002Release of Mozilla Firefox
- 20022002 becomes the warmest year on record
More in Science & technology
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- 1950Discovery of californium
- 1952Discovery of einsteinium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
- June 2002Discovery of oganesson
The era
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