The Fedora Community
And why you should join it!

Present to you by:
Soroush Afzalian
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Introduction

What is Fedora?

Fedora is a Distro of GNU/Linux Operating System.

✅ 100% Free and Open
✅ Innovative
✅ Secure
✅ Stable

Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat.

Who is RedHat?

RedHat inc is an American multinational software company that providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.

✅ Founded in 1993
✅ Product: RHEL, Fedora & etc.

What is Operating System?

A Unix-like "Operating System" is a software collection of:

✅ Applications
✅ Libraries
✅ Developer Tools
✅ Kernel

Kernel is a program to allocate resources and talk to the hardware.

What is GNU?

GNU's Not Unix Is a project to provide
a complete Unix-like Operating System which is entirely based on FreeSoftware.

What is Free Sofware?

Free Software Is a matter of the users freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.

What is Linux?

Linux Is a kernel for GNU Operating-System, released in 1991 and licensed under GNU GPL later.

What is GNU/Linux?

GNU/Linux Is a term for a GNU
Operating-System which uses Linux as it's kernel!

What is a Distribution?

A GNU/Linux Distribution (Distro)
Is a collection of mostly Free software available for install or live run, plus a repository of other software packaged to be installed on system.

What is RHEL?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Is a GNU/Linux Distribution and developed by RedHat.

✅ March 2001
✅ Commercial LTS
✅ Based on Fedora
✅ Commercial Enterprise OS!

What is CentOS?

Community Enterprise OS
Also for people who need a free enterprise-class OS without the cost of certification and support.

✅ May 2004
✅ Long-term support
✅ Very similar to RHEL

Features Technical excellence:

Kernel, SELinux, Firewalld, NetworkManager, upower, KVM, virt-manager/libvirt, GCC, DNF, udisks, Gnome3, systemd, PulseAudio, AIGLX, Xorg, Wayland, Plymouth.

🔅 features become part of others!

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