About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Mandriva Linux, Red Hat Linux, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenSUSE, SUSE Linux distributions, CentOS, ALT Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, Russian Fedora Remix, PCLinuxOS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ark Linux, Red Flag Linux, EnGarde Secure Linux, SME Server, Inquisitor, Tinfoil Hat Linux, Karoshi, Scientific Linux, Hanthana, Rocks Cluster Distribution, Unity Linux, Granular Linux, Berry Linux, Kororaa, BLAG Linux and GNU, Fuduntu, Vine Linux, Linpus Linux, Turbolinux, Commercial products based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fermi Linux, Caixa Magica, MythDora, ALinux, Linux XP, YOPER, Aurora SPARC Linux, Linkat, Oracle Linux, Trustix, Ojuba Linux, TinyMe, Asianux, Xange, CAOS Linux, White Box Enterprise Linux, Turkix, Miracle Linux, MCNLive, Mayur Linux, Sam Linux, WinLinux, Co-CreateLinux, Atomix, Fedora AOS, K12LTSP, Annvix, EduLinux. Excerpt: Fedora (pronounced ) is an RPM-based, general purpose collection of software, including an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community. One of Fedora's main objectives is not only to contain software distributed under a free and open source license, but also to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora developers prefer to make upstream changes instead of applying fixes specifically for Fedora-this ensures that their updates are available to all Linux distributions. Compared to more main stream Non-Linux operating systems Fedora has a short life cycle. Version X is maintained until one month after version X+2 is released. With 6 months between releases, the maintenance period is a very short 13 months for each version. This can lead to trouble sho...
