Another step forward in the search for the perfect operating system has come today, with the release of Fedora 8. While the Fedora distributions have not enjoyed the tremendous upsurge in popularity that Ubuntu has, it continues to build on a solid base of loyal users. And they should be, as Fedora continues to be the only distribution I have ever used over time that works on every system I’ve tried. Ubuntu can’t match that record.

Fedora is the launch pad for Red Hat distributions, so errors and disabling flaws get weeded out quickly by the developers, who work on a much different system than other groups.

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The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, 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 Core about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in building Fedora Core 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.

a clean system that works well from the start, with the ability to customize to your heart’s content

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[tags] Linux, Fedora, Red Hat, Secure Linux, open source software [/tags]