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<img src="/images/intro-computer.png" width="101" height="60" alt=" " style="float:left;margin:0 15px;"><h1 class="center">What is The Fedora Project?</h1>
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The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and
community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground
for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products.
It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.
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The goal of
<a href="/participate/terminology.html">The Fedora Project</a>
is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose
operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be
done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases
of
<a href="/participate/terminology.html"#core">Fedora Core</a>
about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule. The Red
Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of
Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside
participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux.
By using this more open process,
we hope to provide an operating system that uses free software development
practices and is more appealing to the open source community.
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To learn more about the process, refer to <a href="/about/">About</a>,
the <a href="/about/objectives.html">Objectives</a>,
and the <a href="/about/faq/">FAQs</a>.
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<h1>Test Release Available!</h1>
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A Fedora Core test release (codename Severn) is now
available. As shown on the <a href="/participate/schedule/">schedule</a>, the
test release 1 testing period will last from July 21 to mid September.
Everyone is encouraged to download it and participate by either submitting
bugs or submitting fixes. All bugs, requests for enhancements, and fixes
should be submitted via
<a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/">Bugzilla</a>.
Please keep up to date via
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<a href="/download/rhn.html">RHN</a>.
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Read the <a href="/docs/severn-announce.html">announcement</a>. To learn what has changed and been improved, read the
<a href="/docs/release-notes/"><code class="citetitle">Release Notes</code></a>.
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Another objective of The Fedora Project is to be widely available and freely
redistributable.
Each release of Fedora Core will be available for free download
via FTP and other distribution mechanisms (for example, BitTorrent). Anyone interested
in using, developing, testing, or evaluting Fedora Core is encouraged to
<a href="/download/">download</a> the latest version (or the
latest test release if available) and try it.
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<h1>The New Name</h1>
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The Red Hat Linux Project, as this used to be called, is merging with
the <a href="http://www.fedora.us/">Fedora Linux project</a>.
We had so many common goals that to work apart would be a waste of effort.
We have months of effort before we can have a unified infrastructure,
so we still have two different web sites, two sets of documentation, and
so forth, but we will be unifying our work over time. Red Hat would
like to thank Fedora Linux project developers for proposing the merger
and committing time to making the merger a reality.
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Red Hat would also like to thank the <a href="http://www.fedora.info/">
Fedora</a> project at UVA and Cornell for cooperating with us in the use
of the "Fedora" name.
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<h1>Red Hat Enterprise Linux</h1>
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The Fedora Project is one of the sources
for new technologies and enhancements that may be incorporated
into Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the future. Red Hat Enterprise
Linux is the solution that provides a robust, stable operating system
supported by Red Hat, Inc. and a wide variety of independent
software vendors (ISVs). For production use, support, service
level agreements (SLAs), and ISV support, we proudly ask that
you look at <a href="http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/">Red
Hat Enterprise Linux</a>.
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<h1>Projects</h1>
<p>Find out more about our various projects. <ul>
<li><a href="/projects/anaconda-installer/">Anaconda Installer</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/artwork/">Artwork</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/config-tools/">Configuration Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/desktop/">Desktop</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/docs/">Docs</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/qa/">QA</a></li>
<li><a href="/projects/translations/">Translations</a></li>
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<h1>About the Project</h1>
<p>Read about the project, the release, this website, and more things related to Fedora Core. <ul>
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<li><a href="/about/history/">History</a></li>
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