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HAVE YOU HEARD OF FEDORA PROJECT? THE COOLEST LINUX DISTRIBUTOR
This article will try not to be another boring technical explainer you’ve come across online. So, I first heard about Fedora Project while looking for an open-source project to contribute to during my 2025 Outreachy initial application stage, and I was blown away by its simplicity. Yes, you read that right. Fedora Project is a community of users and developers that develops Fedora Linux in sponsorship with Red Hat. What makes Fedora Linux simple? You may ask. Well, Fedora Linux is a totally free, open-source operating system (Linux distribution) that gets new releases every 6 months, and the releases get updated for about 13 months. Fedora Project is strict with detailing and improving its user manual/documentation, which covers how to install and use Fedora Linux. Their Updates Policy is more liberal than the average Linux distributor; it covers all common update requirements for all Fedora releases while also allowing minimal disruption. Fedora is supported by a large community of users and developers, which fuels its rapid improvements. Why is Fedora Project cool? Apart from being a community that builds solutions tailored to users, the community also runs on Four Foundations: Freedom, Friends, Features, and First. The core of Fedora values is the freedom it provides to its users by making available to them free and open-source software and content. There is no community without friendship. Today marks three days since I have started contributing to the Fedora community, and I have been helped by strangers from different parts of the world, also vying for the same internship, in completing some of my tasks right from day one. They are also transparent with their feature development, and it is done in the open so that everyone can participate. Fedora Project is usually the first in releasing features that attend to users' needs, and this is due to their rapid release cycle, where it releases a new version of its operating system software twice a year and provides maintenance for them for up to 13 months. As a user, I would have found the constant updates frustrating, but Fedora Project also allows users to skip a release. That means you don’t have to update every 6 months, and you would still keep receiving updates on your existing Fedora Linux for the next 13 months. Okay, this brings me to the end of this informal explainer. Are you a 2026 Outreachy applicant reading this article? Well, hello from the future. If you want to understand Fedora, there is no better place to start than their website—after reading this article, of course. Good luck!
This article will try not to be another boring technical explainer you’ve come across online. So, I first heard about Fedora Project while looking for an open-source project to contribute to during my 2025 Outreachy initial application stage, and I was blown away by its simplicity. Yes, you read that right.
Fedora Project is a community of users and developers that develops Fedora Linux in sponsorship with Red Hat. What makes Fedora Linux simple? You may ask. Well, Fedora Linux is a totally free, open-source operating system (Linux distribution) that gets new releases every 6 months, and the releases get updated for about 13 months. Fedora Project is strict with detailing and improving its user manual/documentation, which covers how to install and use Fedora Linux. Their Updates Policy is more liberal than the average Linux distributor; it covers all common update requirements for all Fedora releases while also allowing minimal disruption. Fedora is supported by a large community of users and developers, which fuels its rapid improvements.
Why is Fedora Project cool? Apart from being a community that builds solutions tailored to users, the community also runs on Four Foundations: Freedom, Friends, Features, and First. The core of Fedora values is the freedom it provides to its users by making available to them free and open-source software and content. There is no community without friendship. Today marks three days since I have started contributing to the Fedora community, and I have been helped by strangers from different parts of the world, also vying for the same internship, in completing some of my tasks right from day one. They are also transparent with their feature development, and it is done in the open so that everyone can participate. Fedora Project is usually the first in releasing features that attend to users' needs, and this is due to their rapid release cycle, where it releases a new version of its operating system software twice a year and provides maintenance for them for up to 13 months. As a user, I would have found the constant updates frustrating, but Fedora Project also allows users to skip a release. That means you don’t have to update every 6 months, and you would still keep receiving updates on your existing Fedora Linux for the next 13 months.
Okay, this brings me to the end of this informal explainer. Are you a 2026 Outreachy applicant reading this article? Well, hello from the future. If you want to understand Fedora, there is no better place to start than their website—after reading this article, of course. Good luck!
