"Since its first version, in 2003, Red Hat's Fedora Linux has been the best place to track what's on the leading edge of Linux and open source software."
— Jason Brooks, eweek.com

"Fedora has [...] released an amazingly rock-solid operating system."
— Jack Wallen, TechRepublic.com

What makes Fedora great?

freedom

Freedom is key

Advancing software and content freedom is a key goal of the Fedora Project.

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friends

Our Community

People world-wide work together in Fedora to advance free software.

Discover your role in Fedora's community >

features

We share

Many features that benefit all Linux distributions start in Fedora.

See how we share our features for all to use >

first

The best tech

The future of Linux is built into Fedora.

Learn how Fedora innovates >

Fedora highlights

Your life on Fedora

Michel, Social Media & Web Researcher

Michel Alexandre Salim, originally from Indonesia, is currently pursuing his doctorate in Germany. His research group's focus centers around wikis and software development tools. Michel is a long-time Fedora user and he runs down his picks of the best social media and web development tools to use with Fedora.

What makes Fedora different?

We fight for software freedom

We try to always do the right thing, and provide only free and open source software. We will fight to protect and promote solutions that anyone can use and redistribute. To this end, we use only free and open source software to power the Fedora infrastructure itself. With this in mind, all of our developers are focused on working closely with upstream development teams, so everyone can benefit from our work and get access to our changes as soon as possible. Due to the huge amount of innovation that Fedora drives, this focus has had significant and long lasting effects.

Do it with Fedora

Have a photobooth party!

All you need is a webcam and Fedora, and you can do all sorts of cool photo tricks, including turning your friends into The Hulk. :) Take fun snapshots and videos!