Fedora.

Fedora is a Linux based operating system, a suite of software to run your PC. You can run Fedora along with your existing Operating System or replace your existing one with it. Being a Linux based operating system, it inherits all the properties. It is free, Open source and you can distribute to anyone you wish.

Fedora is 100% Open Source. Fedora is completely free and open source. Its underlying source code is available for you to study, modify, change. You can even distribute the distribution with the changes you made to it as far as you keep it open source and dont charge for it from anyone. Its free and should always be. 

Thousands of free apps. Fedora is loaded with thousands of open source and free software for you. It includes fedora Game spin which has bundles hundred of free and open source good games for someone who is really a fond of gaming. The basics softwares are already included like mozilla firefox as a web browser, open office as a replacement of Microsoft Office, and MySql as a Database server.



Virus and spyware free. Yup. No need of buying an antivirus and keep updating it for life time. Its is as secure as any other distributions of linux and no extra care is needed to protect oneself from any virus or spyware. It is Secure.!!


World Wide Community. Fedora is contributed by programmers all over the world. It is build by a global community of contributors. Since people like you and me developed this, so there is some chance of suiting our own needs. There is a local site for different regions developers. fedoracommunity is where you can visit your region and communicate to your region contributors.


A powerful OS. Fedora was created to be user friendly. Yet, it contains all the powerfull-ness of Linux. It is a powerful as any other distros and supports both graphical mode and command line.

Free to use. Free to share. You can share a copy of Fedora with your friends, neighbors, to even unknowns. There is no restriction on sharing as far as the sharing is free and you dont charge for it from anyone.

Fedora desktop.

Beautiful artwork. Fedora is designed user friendly. There are beautiful graphical works, themes and wallpapers soothing your eyes. Although its not as competent as Microsoft, but still its close to it. And for a geek who have lost interest in the same look for all windows version starting from vista, its surely a better idea to switch to Fedora. Have a change.

How to Download: 

You can download Fedora from the website. http://fedoraproject.org

Or,
For a Intel Compatible PCs 64 bit, here is the download link. Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.

What will you need: 
A blank CD/DVD or a 1GB+ usb stick.
A 400MHz or faster processor.
Atleast 768mb of RAM. (1GB is recommended.)
10 GB of Hard Disk space.

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How to Install. Download a ISO copy of Fedora from Fedora website or from the above mentioned link.

Using USB stick.
> Download the LiveUSB Creator program for Windows from http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator.

> LiveUSB Creator can create live USB media either from an image file that you downloaded previously or it can download an image file from the Internet. Either:

 ...click the Browse button under the Use existing LiveCD label, browse to the location where you previously downloaded a Fedora Live ISO file, and select that file.

...select a Fedora Live ISO file from the drop-down menu that LiveUSB Creator presents under theDownload Fedora label. Note that image files are large and that it is probably impractical to use LiveUSB Creator to download an image file if you do not have a broadband connection to the Internet.

>Click Create Live USB.

Using CD/DVD. 
burn your ISO image on a CD/DVD using any CD/DVD burning software. If you have windows you already have it in default. Use the CD/DVD to run Fedora on your system.

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Open Source Revolution.