Free fedora core software for linux

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.

rinse software was born out of a frustration with the currently available solutions for installing minimal copies of RPM-based distributions.
The need to perform simple chroot() installations of other distributions is not common, but the ability to do such a thing is very useful when it comes to testing new tools, and working towards the creation of new Xen guests.
The following distributions are supported:
- Centos 4 & 5
- Fedora Core 4, 5, 6 & 7
I plan to support OpenSUSE in the near future.
Enhancements:
- This is primarily a bugfix release, which restores the ability to install new distributions of Centos 4 & 5.

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

Qjackctl software is a simple Qt application that can control the JACK sound server daemon, specific for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure.
Written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer.
Provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way control of the status of the audio server daemon. With time, this primordial interface has become richer by including a enhanced patchbay and connection control features.
Bugs:
Probably plenty still, but qjackctl its now considered on beta stage already. It has been locally tested since JACK release 0.98.0, on SuSE 9.1, Mandrake 10.0 and Fedora Core 1, with custom 2.4 kernels with low-latency, preemptible and capabilities enabling patches. As for 2.6 kernels, the capabilities patch may also apply but the emergence of the Realtime Linux Security Module (LSM) and Ingo Molnars Realtime Preemption kernel patch its being now recommended for your taking benefit of the realtime and low-latency audio pleasure JACK can give.
Enhancements:
- An immediate showstopper crash upon client start was irradicated, which was affecting those with the system-tray icon disabled, as is the default (thanks to Ken Ellinwood for first reporting this sloppy one).

The eLearning XHTML editor (eXe) is a web-based authoring environment designed to assist teachers and academics in the design, development and publishing of web-based learning and teaching materials without the need to become proficient in HTML, XML or complicated web-publishing applications.
The Web is a revolutionary educational tool because it presents teachers and learners with a technology that simultaneously provides something to talk about (content) and the means to hold the conversation (interaction).
Unfortunately, the power of this hypertext medium is constrained in educational settings because the vast majority of teachers and academics do not have the technical skills to build their own web pages, and must therefore rely on the availability of web developers to generate professional looking online content.
Version restrictions:
- Traditionally web-authoring software entails a steep learning curve; it is not intuitive and the applications were not designed for publishing learning content. Consequently teachers and academics have not adopted these technologies for publishing online learning content. eXe aims to provide an intuitive, easy-to-use tool that will enable teachers to publish professional web pages for learning;
- Currently, learning management systems do not offer sophisticated authoring tools for web content (when compared to the capabilities of web-authoring software or the skills of an experienced web developer). eXe will develop a tool that provides professional web-publishing capabilities that can be easily referenced or imported by standards compliant learning management systems;
- Most content management and learning management systems utilize a centralized web server model thus requiring connectivity for authoring. This is limiting for authors with low bandwidth connectivity or no connectivity at all. eXe will be developed as an offline authoring tool without the requirement for connectivity.
- Many content management and learning management systems do not provide an intuitive wysiwyg environment where authors can see what their content will look like in a browser when published, especially when working offline. eXe will mimic wysiwig functionality enabling users to see what the content will look like when published online.
Enhancements:
- Recent versions of eXe have added the ability to embed images and media (audio and video files) into the iDevice template structure.
- Images and media can be used not only in the main field of each iDevice, but in the subfields like "Feedback" as well.
- There have been many bugfixes over the past few months.
- RPMs for Fedora (both Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7) are being built again.