What is Fedora Core?
Fedora Core is a new open source group project to create a distribution of Linux based on the old consumer version of Red Hat Linux. Since Red Hat no longer intends to sell to the consumer market and wants to focus instead on enterprise sales, they spawned this new project together with some people who were working on making software available for consumer Red Hat. It is called Core because it will form the core of the new Linux releases Red Hat will be selling (including the aforementioned enterprise version). It is free, it comes with some of the very latest software included (e.g. Gnome 2.4, Open Office 1.1, etc.
Fedora Core is a new open source group project to create a distribution of Linux based on the old consumer version of Red Hat Linux. Since Red Hat no longer intends to sell to the consumer market and wants to focus instead on enterprise sales, they spawned this new project together with some people who were working on making software available for consumer Red Hat. It is called Core because it will form the core of the new Linux releases Red Hat will be selling (including the aforementioned enterprise version). It is free, it comes with some of the very latest software included (e.g.