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The Fedora operating system is an RPM-based, general purpose Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora's mission statement is: "Fedora is about the rapid progress of Free and Open Source software."
One of Fedora's main objectives is not only to contain free and open source software, but also to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Also, developers in Fedora prefer to make upstream changes instead of applying fixes specifically for Fedora — this ensures that updates are available to all Linux distributions.
Linus Torvalds, original creator of the Linux Kernel, says he uses Fedora because it had fairly good support for PowerPC back when he used that, and grew used to it.
The Fedora Project was created in late 2003, when Red Hat Linux was discontinued. Red Hat Enterprise Linux was to be Red Hat's only officially supported Linux distribution, while Fedora was to be a community distribution. Red Hat Enterprise Linux branches its releases from versions of Fedora.
The name of Fedora derives from Fedora Linux, a volunteer project that provided extra software for the Red Hat Linux distribution, and from the characteristic fedora used in Red Hat's "Shadowman" logo. Fedora Linux was eventually absorbed into the Fedora Project. Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat. Although this has previously been disputed by the creators of the Fedora repository management software, the issue has now been resolved.
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these are x86_64 editions, you only need to download one of these mirrors.
http mirrors:
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http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/...4-Live-KDE.isohttp://fedora.secsup.org/linux/relea...4-Live-KDE.isohttp://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedo...4-Live-KDE.isoftp mirrors:
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ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/rele...4-Live-KDE.isoftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/dist...4-Live-KDE.isoftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedor...4-Live-KDE.isoi686
http mirrors:
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http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/...6-Live-KDE.isohttp://fedora.secsup.org/linux/relea...6-Live-KDE.isohttp://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedo...6-Live-KDE.isoftp mirrors:
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ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/rele...6-Live-KDE.isoftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/dist...6-Live-KDE.isoftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedor...6-Live-KDE.iso