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The goal of the Fedora Project is to build a complete, general purpose operating system from free software. Fedora was created as a result of new business strategy by Red Hat. Fedora is intended for use by conventional Linux home users, and is to replace the current consumer distribution of Red Hat Linux. Red Hat Linux Enterprise is to become a business oriented Linux distribution and comes with Red Hat based support. Support for Fedora is to come from the greater community.
Fedora Core 1 (codename Yarrow, release name Cambridge) was released on November 6, 2003. Improvements over Red Hat Linux 9 include automated updates with yum, improved laptop support with ACPI and cpufreq, prelinking for faster program start time, and kernels with the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL). An AMD64 version is currently in testing.
The current development version is Fedora Core 2 test1.
Red Hat has release schedules on their Web site.