Fedora is the community-maintained Linux distribution that’s the foundation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the leading commercial version of the open source OS. No surprise, then, that it has a tremendous following.

You can think of Fedora as a testing-ground for RHEL; it’s where you can find the latest cutting-edge features before they make their way out to the officially-supported distribution. That means it’s really best suited for hobbyists, but it’s also a good way to get the jump on the best that Linux has to offer.

The biggest change for this release is the inclusion of KDE 4, the most recent edition of the desktop software that powers Fedora. KDE 4 brings new icons and changes under the hood that should make Fedora run faster and use less memory than earlier versions.