Red Hat/Fedora

Even if you have no experience with Linux, you've probably heard of Red Hat—the most well-known commercial version of Linux. Red Hat has recently undergone some organizational changes. Free Red Hat Linux has been replaced by Fedora Core, released by the Fedora project, which is initiated, supported, and contributed to by Red Hat. Fedora is an open source developer project with public testing, participation, and feedback. Fedora includes only open source software. Information on Fedora is available at fedora.redhat.com. Red Hat now only sells Red Hat Enterprise Linux—commercial software appropriate for organization-wide use, emphasizing stability, reliability, and commercial support.

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