From LQWiki

Fedora Core is the new name for the Red Hat Linux (RHL) series of distributions. Once Red Hat Linux reached version 9 (code-named "Shrike"), Red Hat decided that it was time to split their core product into two directions:

• Fedora, which would become a community-developed cutting edge R&D distribution where the latest and greatest Linux technologies would appear first. It focuses on the hobbyist and developer desktop (desktop Linux). An operating system built exclusively from free software and is available for free download.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is a less cutting-edge, more stable, better supported version of Linux based on snapshots of Fedora taken every so often (typically once every year or so). It is not free but is available at a cost of over $150.

Fedora continues Red Hat's tradition of building a super-modern, if slightly unstable, Linux desktop, and it is extremely popular. It is an excellent distro for newbies as long as they're willing to rough and tumble it with the Linux developers.

Contents 1 Miscellaneous 1.1 Fedora Core 3 - YUM configuration note 2 See also 3 External links

Miscellaneous

FC3 makes use of Project Utopia for autodetecting and autoloading hardware drivers.

Fedora Core 2 ("Tettnang") saw a somewhat buggy first implementation of the NSA's Security Enhanced Linux project however this was refined greatly for the release of FC3 and became the first major distribution to implement this finer-grained security model in any great detail.

Fedora Core 3 - YUM configuration note

The /etc/yum.conf file in Fedora Core 3 should typically contain a small set of general repository independent settings - to complement this, the actual repositories are now set up as separate files in /etc/yum.repos.d/

You can leave your alternative repositories (such as DAG etc..) in a disabled state by default with the:

enabled=0

option set in their respective repo files. You can then enable the repository when needed, with:

yum --enablerepo <your_repository_name> <your_command>

For example:

yum --enablerepo dag install rxvt

See also

• Fedora tips & tricks
• Yum

External links

• Fedora Project homepage (fedora.redhat.com)
• Fedora Project wiki (www.fedoraproject.org)
• Fedora Screenshots Tour (www.debianadmin.com)
• release notes (fedora.redhat.com)
• FedoraForum (www.fedoraforum.org)
• FedoraNEWS.ORG - "a public community news information site for Fedora Users" (www.fedoranews.org)
• Unofficial Fedora FAQ (www.fedorafaq.org)
• Keeping Fedora up to date with Yum (fedora.redhat.com)
• Fedora Core 2 review (www.madpenguin.org)

  from Madpenguin.org

• Fedora Core 3 - an overview by Warren Togami and Colin Charles (www.redhat.com)
• Officially recognized LQ Fedora forum (www.linuxquestions.org)
• Stanton-finley installation and configuration guide (www.stanton-finley.net)
• Some notes on using GNU's Java on FC4 (www.stanton-finley.net)