Fedora Project

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The organization of the Fedora Project

The Fedora Project is the organization responsible for producing the Fedora Core (FC) Linux distribution and Fedora Extras, along with a variety of other projects. It is the result of a merger between the Red Hat Linux (RHL) and old Fedora Linux projects in September 2003, and is officially sponsored by Red Hat, which has many employees working on the project's code. The Fedora Linux project developed Extras packages for older Red Hat Linux distributions (RHL 8, RHL 9, FC 1, FC 2) before it became part of the Fedora Project.

The discontinuation of Red Hat Linux in favor of Fedora Core caused a controversy in the Linux community. Many thought that Red Hat was simply dropping its established user base and moving on to the enterprise market, leaving existing users with no upgrade option. The situation has since become somewhat less confused, although this misconception is still common amongst some.

The Fedora Project Board is comprised of both community and Red Hat members, and is responsible for the direction of the Fedora Project. Red Hat at one point created a separate Fedora Foundation to govern the project, but after consideration of a variety of issues, cancelled it in favor of the board model currently in place. [1] [2]