Re: Recommended memory size for F19?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> For seriously lightweight window managers, I've been using "vtwm" for
> years, still published by the Penguin Liberation Front and listed at
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/13029794/dir/mandriva_2010/com/vtwm-5.4.7-1plf.i586.rpm.html.

Be warned that PLF packages are NOT intended for Fedora.

> The Penguin Liberation Front has been a very useful resource, for years,
> of components whose licenses are confusing or problematic: the old "xv"
> and "twm" programs, "libdvdcss" for ripping DVD's, MPEG libraries, and
> Pine and daemontools before they had their licensing revised. I understand
> why those components can't always be included in a completely open
> distribution with US based resources and primary maintainers like Fedora.
> But man, they're useful if you can accept the licensing personally or
> you're in a country with sane laws about DRM.

For Fedora, there is RPM Fusion which provides such packages (and a separate
repository for libdvdcss at rpm.livna.org).

        Kevin Kofler

-- 
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel





[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux