=== First

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We are committed to innovation.

We are not content to let others do all the heavy lifting on our behalf;
we provide the latest in stable and robust, useful, and powerful free
software in our Fedora distribution.

At any point in time, the latest Fedora platform shows the future
direction of the operating system as it is experienced by everyone from
the home desktop user to the enterprise business customer.
Our https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases[rapid release cycle] is a major enabling factor in our ability to innovate.

We recognize that there is also a place for long-term stability in the
Linux ecosystem, and that there are a variety of community-oriented and
business-oriented Linux distributions available to serve that need.
However, the Fedora Project's goal of advancing free software dictates
that the Fedora Project itself pursue a strategy that preserves the
forward momentum of our technical, collateral, and community-building
progress. Fedora always aims to provide the future, first.