How often are Fedora releases?

Fedora creates two major OS releases every year, targeted for the fourth Tuesday in April and October.

Is Fedora Rawhide a rolling release?

Fedora Rawhide isn’t a rolling-release in the same capacity as Arch or openSUSE Tumbleweed, at least if you care about stability and using the system in a production environment. Rawhide just gives you a glimpse into the future of Fedora development, until it bites you.

Is Fedora and Red Hat the same?

Fedora is the main project, and it’s a communitity-based, free distro focused on quick releases of new features and functionality. Redhat is the corporate version based on the progress of that project, and it has slower releases, comes with support, and isn’t free.

Is Fedora a rolling distro?

What? If you’re using Linux for the first time, there’s a pretty good chance your OS is what’s called a “versioned release” distribution. Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Mint all release numbered versions of their respective operating systems. By contrast, a rolling-release distribution eschews versions altogether.

What is the support period for Fedora Linux?

Fedora provides approximately 13 months of support for each release. The N-2 release reaches End of Life four weeks after Fedora Linux N is released. See the sidebar for information about the current releases. Fedora’s approach involves two development releases, Rawhide and Branched . For more details, see the respective pages.

When will Fedora 9 (sulphur) be released?

Thomas Fitzsimmons updated the Fedora 9 release notes source pages to reflect that Fedora 9 would ship with OpenJDK 6 instead of the IcedTea implementation of OpenJDK 7. Fedora 9 (Sulphur) is due to release in May 2008. ^ “One Second X”. Fedora Project. Retrieved May 9, 2008. ^ “Fedora 9 (Beta) Release Notes”. Fedora Project.

Will Fedora 9 ship with OpenJDK 6 instead of IcedTea?

Thomas Fitzsimmons updated the Fedora 9 release notes source pages to reflect that Fedora 9 would ship with OpenJDK 6 instead of the IcedTea implementation of OpenJDK 7. Fedora 9 (Sulphur) is due to release in May 2008.

What is a branched release in Fedora?

All Fedora Linux releases are branched from Rawhide at the branch point before going through the Beta and GA (Final) milestones. For a time between GA and the next branch point, there is no Branched release.