Omega 10 Desktop Linux

[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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