Rounding out the fall releases from the big cheeses in Linux comes <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fedora" title="Fedora" rel="homepage" href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 12. <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora is a popular <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux distribution funded by <a href="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat, the most profitable Linux <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ae3af5" title="Company" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company">corporation active today. Fedora usually sits within the top three or four most popular distributions at <a href="http://distrowatch.com">distrowatch.com.

Much of the company and community work that goes into Fedora will find its way into <a href="http://www.redhat.com/rhel/">Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the commercial Linux version used by governments and <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000004e02d" title="Business" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business">businesses around the world. You might compare the relationship between Red Hat and Fedora to <a href="http://www.novell.com/linux/">Novell and <a href="http://www.opensuse.org/en/">openSUSE.

For this reason, Fedora is a well respected and highly popular distribution, even if their development may skew towards the enterprise. Thus Fedora might be considered geared for the more experienced and power user. While many aspects of this <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/united_states" title="United States" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20%28United%20States%29&t=h">American-based <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/operating_system" title="Operating system" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system">operating system are quite user-friendly, other areas might require some prior Linux knowledge to fully appreciate.

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