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Fifteen Years of Fedora

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15 years... seems like both a long time and not long ago at all. I remember quite fondly using Fedora Core 2 and enjoying it, it was the natural path from Red Hat Linux after all.

Congratulations to Fedora! I admit that you are not my preferred distro any longer, but I am still quite happy that you have made it this far, and I hope that you have many years to come.

I've been a big fan of the RedHat line, Yellowdog included, and Fedora has made for an even better experience. From "Core 1" to here it's been quite an experience.

Thanks for pushing the bleeding edge for fifteen years!

I hope there hasn't been much blood in all of that. Sometimes we err on that side, but overall, the intention is to provide an integrated operating system that leads but doesn't actually cause injury!

When systemd dropped it was a bit of bloody mess, but Fedora people have had years to get used to it.

Always interesting to see what's next. Fedora 29 just shipped:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/29/ChangeSet

RIP Fedora PPC.

I started on Fedora Core 4 as a tween, and finally became a packager this year. Its been a fun journey and I'm looking card to the next decade!

I also started using Fedora on Core 4 :)

IBM's Fedora doesn't seem like something that will survive 10 years?

Seriously I can't even think of a worst company to buy Red Hat for Fedora then IBM.

Oracle or Microsoft could be worse

Microsoft?

That would be on my top 3 to buy list.

Oracle already has their own Redhat knockoff they would have to put work into making the product which is something they would not want to ever do. Also Oracle would send Fedora out to the ethers anyways.

Got it attached to some local Linux magazine - juggling installation CDs was "fun"; I really liked Bluecurve theme - it really fit those times and while it was cartoonish it was giving more pleasant vibes than plastic XP Luna

Nice! Fedora was one of the first distros I used all those years ago, before switching to openSUSE and later Ubuntu/Debian.

I didn't realise that when I started using it in high school, it was still a relatively young distro (2006-7)!

I did expect there to be a bit more about the history and development in the article though. After the heading "A history lesson" I was expecting it to trace through some major changes in the past 15 years.

Fedora Core had a history as Redhat Linux (not Redhat Enterprise Linux), with nine major releases. I left rpm based distributions with FC1 (only to return in the 20-something releases).

You know, the Wikipedia page for Fedora could really use some help. Both

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(operating_system)

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Project

There _is_ a lot of interesting history, both technical and in the project structure and culture.

I'd update the page myself, but, you know. :)

I remember using Fedora Core 1 and being really excited about it (it was free! no more begging my parents to drive me to CompUSA)

That was literally half a lifetime ago.

Been using Fedora since Fedora Core 5... it sure has come a long way since then

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