“Since its inception in November 2003, Red Hat’s community Linux
project has been called Fedora Core; starting with version 7, it
will be known simply as Fedora.“The name change comes as the project merges the effort of its
Fedora Core, Fedora Extras and Fedora Legacy efforts. Core produced
the core operating system, Extras dealt with packages not included
in Core and Legacy provided support for older version of Fedora.
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