use Fedora for developing the next generation of Linux. For Red Hat, Fedora's parent company, Fedora is its road-map for its market-leading Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It didn't start that way.

While the company’s red hat originally started out as a clip-art top hat, today the red fedora has a great deal of meaning for the company, said Chris Grams, director of brand communications and ...

Red Hat is changing course again with its free Fedora version of Linux, announcing Friday that it will turn over copyrights and development work to an outside entity called the Fedora Foundation.