Correct Name

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Feb 20 15:07:24 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 15:02 +0000, Andy Hudson wrote:
> This may sound like a daft question, but what is the official name of 
> Fedora? 
> 
> Is it Fedora Core Linux 3, or Fedora Core 3 Linux, or Red Hat Fedora 
> Core 3 Linux?
> 
> ie in the UK the full title of the Queen is Her Majesty the Queen of 
> Great Britain and Northern Ireland, whereas in the colonies shes just 
> the Queen of the UK ;)

A sensible abbreviation since "UK" means "United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland", does it not?

> Commonly I just refer to it as either Fedora or FC3 but I'm interested 
> to hear your thoughts.

Perhaps the definitive answer is given by:
$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)

Paul.
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