The Fedora Project is an open source project sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the Fedora community. 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. Fedora Core is a complete desktop and server operating system created entirely with open source software.

Fedora Linux
Fedora Linux was started by Warren Togami as a community for building high quality RPM packages for Red Hat Linux. As Red Hat started to build a community-based distribution, our goals were so similar that we decided to merge our projects. During the months it will take to fully merge the projects, we link to each others' web sites. Red Hat would like to thank Fedora Linux project developers for proposing the merger and committing time to making the merger a reality.

The Fedora Name
Fedora is now a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat will defend this trademark in order to protect the integrity of The Fedora Project. The rules for using the Fedora trademark will be generally more permissive than the rules for using the Red Hat trademarks. The separate name and trademark are necessary in order to have different rules for using the trademarks. The rules for using the "Fedora" trademark are available at http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/.

Fedora Core Lifecycle
Fedora Core is a rapidly evolving system which follows the latest technical developments. Fedora Core may not be appropriate for use in critical applications in your organization.

To learn more about the process, visit all the pages in this section.

How To Participate
There are many ways to participate in The Fedora Project.

Contributing code
Writing documentation
Translating documentation and software
Reporting bugs
Helping other users via methods such as IRC and mailing list

Review the schedule and read the guides in this section to learn how to participate. Address all development questions to fedora-devel-list@redhat.com for public discussion.

Roadmap for Participation
Fedora is an evolving project with initial infrastructure that will be built over a period of several months. That means that it will get easier to contribute directly to development over time. Here's the current status and rough plan.

Right Now
Filing bugs in bugzilla (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/) is the best way to get changes into packages. You can report problems, request enhancements, or submit fixes (generally in the form of unified diffs). You can also contribute by sorting through existing bugs in bugzilla, confirming their validity or requesting more information for them. You can particapte in the weekly Wednesday bug days on the #fedora-bugs channel on freenode IRC, as well.

You can also contribute packages using the process to the older Fedora Linux project with which the Fedora Project will be merging.