Matthew Miller, the Fedora project leader, has proposed separating the naming of the community and the Fedora distribution. The name Fedora is suggested to be used for the entire project and its associated community, while the distribution is planned to be called Fedora Linux.
The reason for the renaming is mentioned as the fact that the Fedora project is not limited to a single distribution but also develops the EPEL repository for RHEL/CentOS, documentation, websites, and various tools. Therefore, when referring to Fedora, the intention is for the entire project to be implied, not just one of its products.
The name change is proposed to take place in the Fedora 35 release, replacing the parameter ‘NAME=Fedora’ in the /etc/os-release file with ‘NAME="Fedora Linux"’. The parameter ‘ID=fedora’ will remain unchanged, meaning there will be no need to modify scripts and conditional blocks in spec files. Specialized editions will also continue to be delivered under the old names, such as Fedora Workstation, Fedora CoreOS, and Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop.
The idea of specifying Fedora GNU+Linux instead of Fedora Linux did not receive support, as extra words complicate perception, and despite the fact that the GNU project components are an essential part of Fedora Linux, the distribution is not limited to them and also includes many other packages. Furthermore, the use of the word 'Linux' for distributions has already become established and is a commonly accepted term.
Source: opennet.ru
