Linked by David Adams on Tue 30th Sep 2008 02:26 UTC, submitted by Rahul
The Red Hat community engineer behind the Fedora Games and Fedora Xfce media spins, Rahul Sundaram, announced the release of Omega 10 Beta, a remix of Fedora this past weekend. Omega is a desktop/mobile Linux distribution that is based upon Fedora but includes packages from the Livna RPM repository. The Omega 10 Beta release is roughly equivalent to the Fedora 10 Beta to be released tomorrow, but integrates multimedia support not found in Fedora.
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RE[2]: That's all we need... another distro
by sbergman27 on Tue 30th Sep 2008 14:23
in reply to "RE: That's all we need... another distro"
Member since:2005-07-24
But then again, some people get panick attacks when they are confronted with the choice in breakfast cereals at the supermarket...
Yeah, I always had trouble deciding between Quisp and Quake.
Actually, in a situation like this, where the changes are tiny and are what the users do anyway, it's the trademark issues that are responsible for any actual confusion. Instead of being able to call it something sensible like "Fedora+Multimedia 10", it has to be called "Omega 10", or "Pink Beret 10", or "Orange Sombrero 10". Ditto for applications like "Frost-Ferret".
So another respin may not be your cup of tea.
Definitely Lipton on that one! :-)
Edited 2008-09-30 14:35 UTC
RE[3]: That's all we need... another distro
by Rahul on Tue 30th Sep 2008 14:35
in reply to "RE[2]: That's all we need... another distro"
Member since:2005-07-06
There is a new set of trademark guidelines waiting on more community feedback and legal approval.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/New_trademark_guideline...
I suggested "remix" as a term for such derivatives and that has already been nominally accepted. When it gets published soon, we would be able to get better secondary branding. As the recent Firefox debates and others have shown, trademark protection while preserving the flexibility of free and open source software can be quite tricky at times. Hopefully the above guidelines represent a good balance.
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If it's binary compatible to Fedora 10, what is the harm? Sounds rather convenient to have Fedora + Livna in a compatible Distro. One less action to perform to get multimedia working. Just pop it in, install and run. Exactly what Linux "needs" to be "ready for the Desktop".
But then again, some people get panick attacks when they are confronted with the choice in breakfast cereals at the supermarket... So another respin may not be your cup of tea.