The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux , open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives. The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in building Fedora and will invite and encourage more outside participation than in past releases. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux , open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives. The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in building Fedora and will invite and encourage more outside participation than in past releases. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community.Comments and Reviews
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My main OS
Highly recommend.
High security compared to Ubuntu
Fedora prides itself in being an early adopter of new technologies and promoting open-source software.
Pros:
Easy to install
Easy to use package manager
Well integrated with GNOME
One of the first to include new updates in the Linux community
Cons:
Adding software that isn't open-source requires an extra step
Not Debian, so proprietary software that is only compatible with Ubuntu and Debian won't work
Debian/Ubuntu software that comes as a .deb file can often be made to work on other distros. Here's how. For a package called example.deb, open the terminal, go to the folder where example.deb is located and type:
A handful of files and folders will appear in that folder. One of them is likely called something like data.tar.gz. This is a compressed file which you can decompress using engrampa or whatever is your favourite Linux program for this.
In the decompressed version of that folder you'll find a bunch of stuff, and amongst it somewhere the binary (executable) program you want to run. Possibly in a subfolder called 'bin'. Double click that to start the program.
Reply written over 4 years ago
I did not know that, thanks!
Reply written over 4 years ago
I don't recommend it as a main os. Fedora is an open-source only OS and therefore has some problems e. g. with playback of videos files both local and online.
i am using Fedora for 2 yrs now, i didn't faced any issues with media playback, instead it's very capable to play, you just need to add right repos & codecs, that's it.
Reply written 9 months ago
Has or had some questionable decisions, has some limitations but overall good option.
Fedora is one of my favourite Linux distributions, but I wouldn't recommend for starting users because when you install for the first time, you need to install RPMFusion repositories, which can be difficult to install, you need to activate NVIDIA's codecs but it is easy to install from the Software Center. Also, you need to install OpenH264 to play videos in YouTube or the computer.
That's why I don't recommend for starters, but when you install all of these, you will be able to use Fedora, also, Fedora ships a new version every 6 months, and they work very close to the GNOME Project, with every version with the newest GNOME version.
If you don't want GNOME, Fedora has official spins for the most used desktop environments.
For all of these things I discussed, I give it 4 out of 5.
[Edited by htibr, November 10]
I used the desktop version of fedora.
I like it because, i never had issues with it while i head some with other linux distributions coghs Pop_OS, it supports dual booting, full disk encryption, alternative package managers such as snap, it runs out of the box with all the software for your needs (if you selected them at the install process), and comes with a reasonable pre installed gui design wich you can adjust as much as you like without any third party software not like other os totatly not thinking of windows right now, it got the capability to connect to your phone and your browser (wich makes enables a supper easy workflow), and the best is you NEVER got to pay anything the hole os is based on opensource or free software.
Well it is great, but i still got some issues like to be fair i used the beta net installer and i got some crashes while updating or installing additional programs (wich could be caused by some repo editing i did). so i got some other minimal issues and bugs wich were pretty rare but still in my opinion a way better os then the comercial options out there.
simple, straight forward replacement for windows