Luca Foppiano wrote:
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Fedora already has different spins - xfce, kde, games, developer live cd
and others. I maintain a couple of them even. This is essentially
similar but rebranded since it used packages outside of the official
Fedora repository.
Spins belong to Fedora, maintains the same policy and the same rules.
AFAIK Omega ship proprietary codec and non-free packages. is this true?
If yes, I don't think official fedora spins ship that packages.
There is no proprietary codecs or non-free codecs in Omega. Some of them
are potentially patent encumbered (only if you are in a region that
considers software patents as valid) but nothing proprietary. Like I
already mentioned, this is rebranded only because it includes third
party software packages. The point is that it is not entirely different
distribution. It is 100% compatible with Fedora.
I never used the term "Fedora based" in my announcements.
Is this phrase not the same?
"Omega is a desktop/mobile Linux distribution that is
based upon Fedora but includes packages from the Livna RPM repository."
This is a quote from a article and not the announcement. The
announcement is at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-September/msg00015.html
I'm trying to understand if and what are the advantages to have another
distribution.
Like all the different spins, this is just a matter of convenience. Many
of the Fedora users go to a third party repository like Livna to get
additional software. This live cd reduces that hassle and makes things
easier. Also for people who are relying on media (CD/DVD) instead of
Internet connection for software, this live cd is more useful.
Rahul
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