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Fedora Core Live-Spin is a Live CD based on Fedora Core.

The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of CD and DVD ISO Live-Spins. These Live-Spins are live, bootable, ready-to-use ISO images of Fedora Core with no need for installation.

Official Fedora Live images are something we all have been looking forward to seeing in the Fedora Community. Kadischi will be the tool to create such live images. Fedora Unity has recently joined forces with Kadischi to help provide testing and to release live images which we are calling "Live-Spins."

The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of a new Live-Spin CD and DVD ISO image of Fedora Core 5. These Live-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora Core 5 and all updates released as of August 21st, 2006. They are available for the i386 architecture via BitTorrent starting Monday, August 28th, 2006 via BitTorrent.

The Fedora Core 5 CD image features a 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 kernel and GNOME 2.14.3, along with applications such as xchat, gftp, OpenOffice.org 2.0.2, and other utilities. The DVD image includes roughly "everything but the kitchen sink."

Also available at this time are "pristine" FC6T2 Live ISO images from the initial FC6T2 release.

The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives.
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum.
The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule.
The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in building Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than in past releases.
By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community.
Main features:
- Support for the PowerPC (PPC) architecture.
- GCC 4.0
- GNOME 2.10
- KDE 3.4 includes new accessibility features. You can manage these new features in KDS Control CenterRegional & AccessibilityAccessibility.
- Native Eclipse 3.1M6 (part of a free Java stack)
- MySQL 4.1
- PHP 5.0
- Xen 2 (virtualization to run multiple versions of an OS)
- GFS 6.1-0.pre22 (cluster file system)
- Evince 0.2.1 (universal document viewer)
- GDM 2.6 - Includes early login capability
- SELinux This release includes coverage for 80 new daemons by the targeted policy. There are changes to the handling of Booleans. The targeted policy is enabled by default.

Fedora Package Menu is a service menu for easy installation of downloaded RPMs.

Requires sudo and good configuration of sudo.

Fedora Frog application is a GUI install script that jumps your Fedora Core 5 to life in no time...
Main features:
- Install extra repositories [RPMForge]
- Note: Not all repositories are mutually compatible. See the Warning mixing repositories
- Install GUI frontend for yum [yumex]
- Install commonly needed multimedia codecs
- Install DVD playback capability
- Install Java JRE and its plugin for Firefox
- Note: You will have to accept Suns licence
- Install Macromedia Flash plugin for Firefox
- Note: You need to restart Firefox after installation
- Install extra fonts (including msttcorefonts)
- Install graphics drivers for nVidia and ATI cards
- Note: You should restart your computer after the installation
- Install Gnome Configuration Editor
- Install numlockx to turn on NumLock on startup
- Set up Gnome to open System Monitor every time you push Alt-Ctrl-Del
- Disable CD blocking in CD-ROM
- Set up Nautilus to open new folders in the same window
- Install rar archiver
- Install Adobe PDF reader
- Note: This is not necessery to read PDF documents, you can read them using Evince too.
- Install Gwenview and digiKam imageviewers
- Install XMMS (analog of Winamp)
- Install amaroK media player
- Install stream directory browser Streamtuner
- Install CD ripper Grip
- Install Xine, VLC, Mplayer multimedia players
- Install RealPlayer 10
- Install Skype
- Install Thunderbird e-mail client
- Install Liferea RSS reader
- Install Opera web browser
- Install CD/DVD burning utility K3b
- Install FTP utility gFTP
- Install File share utility DC++
- Install P2P BitTorrent client Azureus
- Install P2P eMule Client aMule
- Install P2P Gnutella Client LimeWire
- Install KDE Edutainment programms
- Install Photo-realistic nightsky renderer Stellarium
- Install Some additional games
- Install Alacarte Gnome menu editor
- Install Shortcut to browse files as root
- Install Some desktop backgrounds, icons, themes and screensavers
- Note: Try changing your desktop background and look in Theme Details of System -> Preferences -> Theme
- Install fortune and make Gnome Fish-applet to use it
Note: It is recomended to run update before you run Fedora Frog
Usage:
xterm -e ~/.frog/frog.run
Enhancements:
- Added xine-lib-extras and xine-plugin to Xine install.
- Main frog welcome screen revised to use dialog command.
- Adjusted dependencies so that removing Amarok does not remove xine-libs which forces removal of xine.
- Made "ynq" proc case statement instead of if-then-else

Fedora Rescue CD is a rescue CD for Fedora Core based systems.

The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.

The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule.

The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux.

By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system that uses free software development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.

Fedora Digital Object Repository is an open source software which gives organizations a flexible service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering their digital content. At its core is a powerful digital object model that supports multiple views of each digital object and the relationships among digital objects.
Digital objects can encapsulate locally-managed content or make reference to remote content. Dynamic views are possible by associating web services with objects. Digital objects exist within a repository architecture that supports a variety of management functions. All functions of Fedora, both at the object and repository level, are exposed as web services. These functions can be protected with fine-grained access control policies.
This unique combination of features makes Fedora an attractive solution in a variety of domains. Some examples of applications that are built upon Fedora include library collections management, multimedia authoring systems, archival repositories, institutional repositories, and digital libraries for education.
Enhancements:
- This is a significant release of Fedora that includes a complete repackaging as a proper Web application.
- A new installer application makes it easy to setup and run.
- It now uses Servlet Filters for authentication.
- The Fedora repository can also be configured to calculate and store checksums for content.
- The RDF-based Resource Index has been tuned for better performance.
- A new high-performing RDBMS-backed triplestore has been developed that can now be plugged into the RI.