Since then, it has been adopted by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, CentOS, and many other RPM-based Linux distributions, including Yellow Dog Linux itself, where it has replaced the original YUP utility.

* OpenLDAP Derived from the original University of Michigan reference LDAP implementation ( as are the Netscape / Red Hat / Fedora / Sun JSDS servers ) but significantly evolved.

Due to the unmaintained state of the original Jigdo code — the GUI client does not support multi-image templates, meaning the command-line tools are required — Fedora has been developing a Python-based GUI, called pyJigdo.

One can distinguish between commercially backed distributions, such as Fedora ( Red Hat ), openSUSE ( Novell ), Ubuntu ( Canonical Ltd .), and Mandriva Linux ( Mandriva ), and entirely community-driven distributions, such as Debian, Mageia and Gentoo.

A number of Linux distributions use installers written in Python: Ubuntu uses the Ubiquity installer, while Red Hat Linux and Fedora use the Anaconda installer.

Fedora, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat, is the free version best suited for home use.

Red Hat Linux 9, the final release, hit its official end-of-life on 2004-04-30, although updates were published for it through 2006 by the Fedora Legacy project until that shut down in early 2007.

This was changed in late 2003 when Red Hat Linux merged with the community-based Fedora Project.

The new plan is to draw most of the codebase from Fedora when creating new Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions.

The Fedora and Red Hat Projects were merged on September 22, 2003.

* Fedora Project – History of Red Hat Linux

Various other commercial vendors had released free versions of their distributions, such as SUSE, which released OpenSUSE, and Red Hat, which released Fedora.

OpenLDAP also supports SLAPI, the plugin architecture used by Sun and Netscape / Fedora / Red Hat.

While many plugins written for Sun / Netscape / Fedora / Red Hat

In Fedora, updates are provided by Red Hat's free yum and Advanced Packaging Tool repositories.

On June 18, 2008 Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst announced plans for the RHN Satellite software to be open-sourced following the Fedora / RHEL model.

** Fedora ( operating system ), a Linux distribution sometimes referred to as " Red Hat ".

* A codename of an early beta version of Fedora ( operating system ), then known as Red Hat Linux 9. 0. 93

It has been used in Red Hat Linux since version 8. 0, and Fedora Core.

The Fedora Project is an endeavor sponsored by Red Hat to co-ordinate the development of the Fedora operating system.

Founded on September 2003 as a result of a merger between the Red Hat Linux ( RHL ) and old Fedora Linux projects.

The project consists, not only of Red Hat employees, but community members worldwide which make up 75 % of all contributors within the Fedora Project.

When Red Hat decided to split Red Hat Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL ) and a community-based version, the name Fedora was eventually selected, it left the existing small business and home users with some uncertainty about what to do.

* Neil Steinberg, Hatless Jack — The President, the Fedora and the Death of the Hat, 2005, Granta Books

* ASPLinux, Russian Fedora Core-based GNU / Linux distribution

Thus, the Debian Project is an independent decentralized organization ; it is not backed by a company like Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, and Mandriva.

** Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO, Linux Documentation Project.

Irssi was written primarily to run on Unix-like operating systems, and binaries and packages are available for Gentoo Linux, Slackware, SUSE ( openSUSE ), Frugalware, Fedora, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Arch Linux.

Maatkit is included with several GNU / Linux distributions such as CentOS and Debian and packages are available for Fedora and Ubuntu as well.

It is planned for Wayland to eventually replace X in Ubuntu and Fedora, two well-known GNU / Linux distributions.

Installation programs for the Arch, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Kate OS, Mandriva, Slackware, Ubuntu, VectorLinux and Zenwalk Linux distributions all offer XFS as a choice of filesystem, but few of these let the user create XFS for the / boot filesystems due to deficiencies and unpredictable behavior in GRUB, often the default bootloader.

Despite this restriction, gnuplot is accepted and used by many GNU packages and is widely included in GNU / Linux distributions including the stricter ones such as Debian and Fedora.

Linux is available in multiple distributions, the more popular being Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE.

In free community supported GNU / Linux distributions, Fedora was one of the earliest adopters, including support for it by default since Fedora Core 2.

Gambas 2. 7. 0 running on Fedora Linux with Blackbox

* Adios Live CD, a Linux distribution based on Fedora Core

Since the release of Fedora 9 Alpha, all future release of Fedora will provide Jigdo as an alternative download method for people without BitTorrent access.

The feature-limited version can be used widely like MySQL, Eucalyptus and Fedora.

In 2005, a custom version of Fedora Core 3 was introduced, followed by Fedora Core 5 in 2006.

On June 2008, it was announced that IcedTea6 ( as the packaged version of OpenJDK on Fedora 9 ) has passed the Technology Compatibility Kit tests and can claim to be a fully compatible Java 6 implementation.

He helped to develop the modified version of Fedora Core Linux that ran on the new laptops, handled all integration and community work with the OLPC project, and unveiled the laptop in a video on Friday, June 2, 2006 .< ref >