Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation
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·December 12, 2025fodmap
jasoneckert
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).
macintux
And predates Fedora by about 6 years.
cevn
I was ready to be mad in the comments, now I'm mad but in the other direction.
phkahler
Right or wrong, who owns the trademark?
fodmap
Both. '...all parties settled on a co-existence agreement that stated that the Cornell-UVA project could use the name when clearly associated with open source software for digital object repository systems and that Red Hat could use the name when it was clearly associated with open source computer operating systems.'
tsak
The hat!
> The term fedora was in use as early as 1891.
RickJWagner
Thanks for that explanation. Totally threw me for a minute.
cramcgrab
Wow. Java 11. Looks like a great project for an update. Anybody know where we can get a group of CS students to update the code with a modern toolset? Used to be MIT, Clarkson, Cornell, Berkeley, RIT, etc cranked this stuff out.
treesknees
https://fedorarepository.org/232540-2/
> Upgrades for over 40 dependency libraries, including upgrading Java 11 to Java 21.
null
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.