Red Hat releases Fedora 7

Red Hat releases Fedora 7

Red Hat has released the latest version of their Fedora operating system. The company said that Fedora 7 has been designed in such a way that it would allow open source community tools to build customized Linux distributions.

The company has also now opened all the Fedora operating system packages to the community. Red Hat said that this new development would give Fedora community more influence over the development of the operating system.

Greg Dekoenigsberg, community development manager at Red Hat spoke about Fedora 7: “If you want an OS that is nothing but a database and the things required to support that database, then you don’t have to add support for Firefox or for games.”

He added: “The goal of Fedora 7 was to build a single repository of Fedora packages that are not separated by ‘Red Hat maintained’ and ‘community maintained’. The thing that made that possible is that we now have a set of completely open-source build tools to build Fedora or any derivative of Fedora.”

Dekoenigsberg further spoke about the increasing competition from Ubuntu: “Our goals are to some degree different. The aim of the Ubuntu Project seems to be to provide a high-degree of polish to the typical Windows, non-savvy end user. They do a good job of that but they are willing to make sacrifices to that end that we are not willing to make.”

Checkout: Fedora 7