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[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:41:40 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> > Now both Fedora Core and Extras falls under the same legal and
> > idealogical design of being a platform made up completely of Free and
> > open source software. This leaves in some gaps like mp3 and DVD
> > decrypting capability (legal limitations) along with other proprietary
> > software managed by the Livna repository which is developed in sync and
> > compatible with Fedora but not officially supported by the Fedora project.
> > 
> > Hopefully that clears it up
> 
> Almost.
> (1) I take it that fedora.us is identical (or nearly identical?) 
> to Fedora Extras ?

No. It's just the predecessor. A community project where add-on
packaging activity started.
 
> In that case, would it not simplify life
> if the term fedora.us were dropped?

That's ongoing, step by step. Hence the changed main web page at
http://fedora.us
 
> (2) I gather that Livna is compatible (or almost compatible?)
> with the official Fedora repositories ?

It aims at providing add-ons, which work with Fedora Core and
Fedora Extras.
 
> So one might call Livna "Fedora Extra Extra" ?
 
It is a 3rd party project and independent from the Fedora Project.
What you call it is up to you. But it would be too confusing if
the project renamed itself to something with "Fedora" in the name.

-- 
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at users.sf.net>
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