I asked benny Vasquez, chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation ... to explain all the pieces—Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, CentOS Stream, Fedora, RHEL, Alma, Rocky, upstreams ...

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.

s Fedora trademark, currently pending review by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Fedora is Red Hat’s experimental Linux project that was launched as a community-developed alternative to Red ...