Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 11th Oct 2007 21:43 UTC, submitted by Jeremy LaCroix
The release candidate for Ubuntu 7.10 has been released. "The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.10 release candidate, which brings a host of excellent new features. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user. The final stable version will be released in October 2007."
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The single CD distribution idea existed long long back. I believe Mepis did it way before the rest and it might even not be the first and Fedora spins are not just single CD distributions.
Take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins and read the referneces to understand what spins are all about.
Edited 2007-10-11 22:58
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As someone involved with Fedora for a long time, I can say this and when I do I believe I am speaking for everyone in the Fedora community that I am happy that Ubuntu is taking things from Fedora like desktop effects preferences and system-config-printer and that they are interested in doing that more and we go out of our way including changing our infrastructure to enable them to do exactly that
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-August/msg022...
A number of innovations (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions) from Fedora constantly go into other distributions and Fedora has a strong upstream focus (http://fedoraprojecct.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream) that is specifically geared towards this. Just a while back I noticed that Mandriva's latest release had some Udev changes that they acknowledged as being from Fedora which is great.
The latest OpenSUSE, Debian etc ship Fedora's virtualization related tools too and practically everybody is including things like the HAL, DBus, NetworkManager etc along with recently Iced Tea which is a competely Free derivative of OpenJDK created originally for Fedora.
This is not a one way street. Ubuntu adopting system-config-printer got Fedora a number of bug fixes which saves time and effort for everybody. So take what you will and share the changes if you can. This is Free software at it's best. Have fun.