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fodmaplast Friday at 1:39 PM5 repliesview on HN

To avoid misunderstandings, this repository is about a project at Cornell University named the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (FEDORA), not a Red Hat one.


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jasoneckertlast Friday at 2:52 PM

It took me far too long to figure this out from their site, but when I did, the project looked far less interesting.

For a while there, I thought the "been in existence for 20+ years and our users represent an engaged, supportive and invested global community of users focused on sustainability and growth" was the Fedora Project extending their expertise in file organization and distribution to other use cases.

But on the bright side, I now have a link I can use to confuse my students with (to keep them out of their comfort zone and promote deep research).

macintuxlast Friday at 1:46 PM

And predates Fedora by about 6 years.

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actionfromafarlast Friday at 4:05 PM

And they have Fedora Slack(ware)!

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RickJWagnerlast Friday at 1:59 PM

Thanks for that explanation. Totally threw me for a minute.

j45last Saturday at 2:11 AM

Didn't think about the Linux distro at all because the software was clearly described as otherwise.