Outline

 What is Fedora?
 Foundation
 Features
 Fedora users
 Behind Fedora
 User Interfaces
 Fedora Development tools
 Benefits & Disadvantages
 Security features of fedora
 What is Fedora?

 100% Free, Legal, Redistributable OS

 Has over 25,000 Contributors

 Includes the Latest Upstream Developments

 Is a Stable, Secure, Powerful and User-Friendly OS

 Has Over 10,000 Packages

 Translation(80+ languages)

 Worldwide ambassador and marketing

 Four Foundations of Fedora

1. Freedom
2. Friends
3. Features
4. First
 Some Features of Fedora

Fedora 11 Fedora 15 Fedora 21

Fast Boot The GNOME 3 desktop Fedora 21 Cloud

environment

Ext4 file system by default Better power management Fedora 21 Server

Better graphics Better End-User Software Fedora 21 Workstation

Synaptics touchpad Dynamic Firewall

improvements

much more secure Virtual Desktop Support

 Who usesFedora?

 Over a hundred derivative distributions

 RHELand OLPC
 Even some Robots do
 Many universities and institutes in WestBengal
 A. Mani
 Roadrunner, the number one Supercomputer in the world
 Millions of other users
 kernel.org
 Sourceforge.net
 NASAsystems...alot
 Foss.in
 Wikipedia.org (roughly 85% of servers)
 Many universities and Web hosting companies
 User interface of fedora

Welcome Screen and Language Selection

 Fedora DevelopmentTools

Virt –builder DevAssistant

Eclipse Docker-Fedora
 Enhanced security features

 Innovation

 Reliability

 Graphical tools

 Automatic Updates

 Educational software

 Large development community

 Handles any fileformat

 Modular design throughAPI

 Batch import/export of metadata

 Long setup time
 Requires additional tools for discovery
 No standard model for multi-file objects
 Fedora’s own server, so we can collaboratively work in real time
 Fedora Build System to build your software across multiple
architectures
 The skills and experience of hundreds of fellow Fedoracontributors
 Limitless work so Limitless opportunity
Firewall by default:
Easy and painless administration:PolicyKit
 SELinux
 Full Disk and File Level Encryption
 Virtualization and Sandboxing
 Restricted Kernel Memory Access
References website:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/say-hi-to-linuxs-future-fedora-21-is-here/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/fedora-15s-five-best-features/

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2481975/open-source-tools/fedora-11-s-best-five-features.html

http://benefitof.net/benefits-of-fedora/

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Features?rd=Security/Features

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora//html/Installation_Guide/sect-installation-graphical-mode.html