The Fedora Legacy project was a community-supported open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 project to provide security and critical bug fix errata package updates for versions of Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux, assembled by the company Red Hat, was a popular Linux based operating system until its discontinuation in 2004.Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994...

 and Fedora Core

Fedora (operating system)

Fedora is a RPM-based, general purpose collection of software, including an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat...

 no longer officially supported by Red Hat

Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....

. When it shut down, it was providing updates for Red Hat Linux 7.3 and 9, and Fedora Core 3 and 4. Support for Fedora Core 1 and 2 were discontinued when Fedora Core 6 Test 2 was released. Fedora Legacy announced that they would stop providing updates for Red Hat 7.3 and 9 by the end of 2006, and only focus on Fedora Core 3 and 4. Then, on December 31, 2006, the Fedora Legacy project was shut down.

External links

• The Fedora Legacy Project web site