Omega 10 Desktop Linux

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

Touting my own horn. To be clear, this is a derivative and not a 
official project.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=omega_10_beta&...

Digg It:

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Omega_Fedora_remix_packs_multimedia

"The Red Hat community engineer behind the Fedora Games and Fedora Xfce 
media spins, Rahul Sundaram, had announced the release of Omega 10 Beta 
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 along with delivering other added functionality."

Rahul

[Tushar Neupaney]

Great going Rahul,

Hope this distro will create new communities of fedora lovers ....


On 30/09/2008, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  Hi
>
>  Touting my own horn. To be clear, this is a derivative and not a
>  official project.
>
>  http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=omega_10_beta&...
>
>  Digg It:
>
>  http://digg.com/linux_unix/Omega_Fedora_remix_packs_multimedia
>
>  "The Red Hat community engineer behind the Fedora Games and Fedora Xfce
>  media spins, Rahul Sundaram, had announced the release of Omega 10 Beta
>  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 along with delivering other added functionality."
>
>  Rahul
>
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[Satish Eerpini]

great work , ..... looking forward to testing it !! ,....
so to make it clear , ...... are u planning to release a version of
Omega for every Fedora ?
that had be great ,,..... i am ready to contribute if it needs help
,...... this kind of work would especially click in india , where the
internet (speed ) is bad and so people would love to have one dvd with
everything !! :-)

On 9/30/08, Tushar Neupaney <tushar.neupaney(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Great going Rahul,
>
>  Hope this distro will create new communities of fedora lovers ....
>
>
>  On 30/09/2008, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Touting my own horn. To be clear, this is a derivative and not a
> > official project.
> >
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=omega_10_beta&...
> >
> > Digg It:
> >
> > http://digg.com/linux_unix/Omega_Fedora_remix_packs_multimedia
> >
> > "The Red Hat community engineer behind the Fedora Games and Fedora Xfce
> > media spins, Rahul Sundaram, had announced the release of Omega 10 Beta
> > 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 along with delivering other added functionality."
> >
> > Rahul
> >
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[Rahul Sundaram]

Satish Eerpini wrote:
>  great work , ..... looking forward to testing it !! ,....
>  so to make it clear , ...... are u planning to release a version of
>  Omega for every Fedora ?
>  that had be great ,,..... i am ready to contribute if it needs help
>  ,...... this kind of work would especially click in india , where the
>  internet (speed ) is bad and so people would love to have one dvd with
>  everything !! :-) 
Yes, the plan is to do new releases in lock step with new Fedora 
releases following the development cycle as much as possible (ie) do 
alpha, beta releases etc. Since rawhide is frozen before test and 
general releases, doing a compose from there (and no mirrors), makes it 
possible for me to even release earlier to official Fedora releases. 
Note that the current release is a live cd and not a dvd. I am not 
planning to do other variants at the moment.

Rahul

[Frank Murphy]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 12:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>  Yes, the plan is to do new releases in lock step with new Fedora 
>  releases following the development cycle as much as possible (ie) do 
>  alpha, beta releases etc. Since rawhide is frozen before test and 
>  general releases, doing a compose from there (and no mirrors), makes it 
>  possible for me to even release earlier to official Fedora releases. 
>  Note that the current release is a live cd and not a dvd. I am not 
>  planning to do other variants at the moment.
>  
>  Rahul 
Where will regular update come from,
is there a yum system being put in place.

Frank


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[Rahul Sundaram]

Frank Murphy wrote:
>  On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 12:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  
> > Yes, the plan is to do new releases in lock step with new Fedora 
> > releases following the development cycle as much as possible (ie) do 
> > alpha, beta releases etc. Since rawhide is frozen before test and 
> > general releases, doing a compose from there (and no mirrors), makes it 
> > possible for me to even release earlier to official Fedora releases. 
> > Note that the current release is a live cd and not a dvd. I am not 
> > planning to do other variants at the moment.
> >
> > Rahul
>  
>  Where will regular update come from,
>  is there a yum system being put in place. 
It is just Fedora's updates.

Rahul

[Luca Foppiano]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 08:29 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  "The Red Hat community engineer behind the Fedora Games and
> Fedora
>  Xfce 
>  media spins, Rahul Sundaram, had announced the release of Omega 10
>  Beta 
>  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 along with delivering other added functionality." 
just few questions:
* Are you sure is necessary to have another distribution...quite equal
to another?
* does it legal and possible to declare that "is a fedora based"?I heard
something about this (I remember something about "sombrero" [1]).

Luca

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/299889/
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[Rahul Sundaram]

Luca Foppiano wrote:
>  
>  just few questions:
>  * Are you sure is necessary to have another distribution...quite equal
>  to another? 
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.

>  * does it legal and possible to declare that "is a fedora
> based"?I heard
>  something about this (I remember something about "sombrero" [1]). 
I never used the term "Fedora based" in my announcements.

Rahul.

[Luca Foppiano]

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.

>  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."

I'm trying to understand if and what are the advantages to have another
distribution. 

Luca
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[Rahul Sundaram]

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/msg00...

>  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

[Luca Foppiano]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 15:21 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  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. 
understand. 

>  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/msg00... 
ok, sorry I thought was your announcement.

>  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. 
uhm, I understand...but you didn't convince me ;-)

Luca
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