Outline
 What is Fedora?
 Foundation
 Features
 Fedora users
 Behind Fedora
 User Interfaces
 Fedora Development tools
 Benefits & Disadvantages
 Security features of fedora
 100% Free, Legal, Redistributable OS
 Has over 25,000 Contributors
 Includes the Latest Upstream Developments
 Is a Stable, Secure, Powerful and User-Friendly OS
 Has Over 10,000 Packages
 Translation(80+ languages)
 Worldwide ambassador and marketing
What is Fedora?
Four Foundations of Fedora
1. Freedom
2. Friends
3. Features
4. First
Some Features of Fedora
Fedora 11 Fedora 15 Fedora 21
Fast Boot The GNOME 3 desktop
environment
Fedora 21 Cloud
Ext4 file system by default Better power management Fedora 21 Server
Better graphics Better End-User Software Fedora 21 Workstation
Synaptics touchpad
improvements
Dynamic Firewall
much more secure Virtual Desktop Support
Who uses Fedora?
 Over a hundred derivative distributions
 RHEL and OLPC
 Even some Robots do
 Many universities and institutes in West Bengal
 A. Mani
 Roadrunner, the number one Supercomputer in the world
 Millions of other users
 kernel.org
 Sourceforge.net
 NASA systems...a lot
 Foss.in
 Wikipedia.org (roughly 85% of servers)
 Many universities and Web hosting companies
User interface of fedora
Welcome Screen and Language Selection
Fedora Development Tools
Virt –builder DevAssistant
Eclipse Docker-Fedora
 Enhanced security features
 Innovation
 Reliability
 Graphical tools
 Automatic Updates
 Educational software
 Large development community
 Handles any file format
 Modular design through API
 Batch import/export of metadata
 Long setup time
 Requires additional tools for discovery
 No standard model for multi-file objects
 Fedora’s own server, so we can collaboratively work in real time
 Fedora Build System to build your software across multiple
architectures
 The skills and experience of hundreds of fellow Fedora contributors
 Limitless work so Limitless opportunity
Firewall by default:
Easy and painless administration: PolicyKit
SELinux
Full Disk and File Level Encryption
Virtualization and Sandboxing
Restricted Kernel Memory Access
References website:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/say-hi-to-linuxs-future-fedora-21-is-here/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/fedora-15s-five-best-features/
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2481975/open-source-tools/fedora-11-s-best-five-features.html
http://benefitof.net/benefits-of-fedora/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Features?rd=Security/Features
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora//html/Installation_Guide/sect-installation-graphical-mode.html

Fedora os presentation