[fedora-india] Omega 10 Beta released

[Manilal K M]

2008/9/27 Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com>:
>
> We proudly present to you, dear users with Omega. Omega is a Linux based
> operating system suitable for desktop and laptop users. It is a Live CD
> for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems that includes a variety of
> free and open source software from Fedora and Livna repository. You can
> try it out on a computer or install it to the hard disk. This is a BETA
> release with a snapshot of the latest bleeding edge development packages
> for early testing and feedback. It is roughly similar to the upcoming
> Fedora 10 Beta release.
>
> Highlights
> ----------
>
> * GNOME 2.23 Desktop Environment
>
> * Firefox 3.0 Web Browser
>
> * A variety of media players including vlc, mplayer and xine
>
> * Extra Gstreamer and xine multimedia codecs
>
>
> Get Omega
> ---------
>
> ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/spins/omega-desktop-livecd-10-beta.iso
>
> You can verify this ISO image using SHA1SUM available at
>
> ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/spins/SHA1SUM
>
> Participate
> ------------
>
> If you have any feedback or wish to help, do let me know.
>
> Rahul
>
>
>
>
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AFAIK, all the above features listed are available in Fedora also.
Then why do we need another distro?
Is there something really special about it ?

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