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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