Fedora is an open source project that provides a platform for developers to work on innovative and latest technologies. Users can use and test these latest features. The document discusses the history of Fedora starting in 2002, its support from Red Hat, why users choose Fedora like access to latest open source technologies, and the Fedora.Next initiative to address issues with the "one size fits all" approach by creating distinct base, workstation, server, and cloud editions.

1. Pravin Satpute
Presented by
Fedora project
Introduction to Fedora and Fedora.Next

2. Today's Topics
1. Introduction to Fedora
2. Fedora History
3. Why Fedora?
4. Fedora.Next

3. Fedora Introduction

4. Global project to create open source
distribution
Provides platform for developers to work on
innovative and latest technologies.
Users get chance to use and test latest
features.
Fedora Introduction

5. History

6. Started in 2002 by Warren Togami as “Fedora
Linux” to provide tested 3rd
party packages
repo to Red Hat Linux.
Later in 2003 absorbed into Fedora by
continuing its collaborative approach.
Fedora 7 merged core and extras repo.
Next major change in Fedora.Next happening
with Fedora 21.
History

7. Project supported
by Red Hat

8. Red Hat provides infrastructure and resources
to enable collaboration in Fedora.
Sponsors flock, FUDCon and FAD.
Mature developments from Fedora become
parts of RHEL.
Supprot from Red Hat

9. Why Fedora?

10. Using Fedora means using latest open source
technologies.
Follows “Upstream” first approach.
Rapid cycle of 6 months release. (Fedora 21 is
exception)
Why Fedora?

11. Fedora.Next

12. Earlier problem one size fits all.
More kind of just pulling upstream and nothing
from Fedora itself.
Fedora became one repositories for all kinda
packages.
Default user and default offering confusing
with pulling different packages.
Fedora.Next

13. Base
Environment and stacks
Workstation
Server
Cloud
Fedora.Next

14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_%28operating_system%29
http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-present-and-future-a-fedora-next-2014-update-part-i-why/
http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-present-and-future-a-fedora-next-2014-update-part-ii-
whats-happening/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics
References

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