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<H1 class=center><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=568393712-04112003>This is
an alternative to Red Hat Linux End-of-Life, announced by Red
Hat.</SPAN></FONT></H1>
<H1 class=center><FONT face=Arial size=3>What is The Fedora Project?</FONT></H1>
<P><FONT face=Arial>The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and
community-supported open source project. 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. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>The goal of </FONT><A
href="http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/terminology.html"><FONT
face=Arial>The Fedora Project</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial> is to work with the
Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system
exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The
project will produce time-based releases of </FONT><A
href="http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/terminology.html" #core?><FONT
face=Arial>Fedora Core</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial> about 2-3 times a year with a
public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to
participate in the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more
outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux. By using this more
open process, we hope to provide an operating system that uses free software
development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.
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