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Fedora 21 Release Spins
Official Fedora Spins
| Name | Summary | Updated | Status | ISO? | Target size | Alpha | Beta | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desktop / Gnome spin | Default Desktop spin based on Gnome | 2011-10-24 | Approved for F18, Recurring | Yes | <= 1 GB | ? | ? | ? |
| Design Suite Spin | The Fedora Design Suite includes well-selected applications, fitting a variety of use cases. Whether you decide to work on publishing documents, creating images and pictures or even 3D content, the Design Suite has a fitting tool. | 2011-10-24 | Approved for F18, Recurring | Yes | <= 2 GB | ? | ? | ? |
| Fedora Jam Audio Spin | Fedora Jam is a full-featured audio creation spin. It includes all the tools needed to help create the music you want, anything from classical to jazz to Heavy metal. Included in Fedora jam is full support for JACK and JACK to PulseAudio bridging. | 2012-11-24 | Approved for F18, Recurring | Yes | < 4 GiB | ? | ? | ? |
| Electronic Lab Spin | Fedora Electronic Lab is Fedora's high-end hardware design and simulation platform. This platform provides different hardware design flows based on the semiconductor industry's current trend. FEL maps in three methodologies {design, simulation and verification} with opensource EDA software. | 2011-10-24 | Approved for F18, Recurring | Yes | < 4 GiB | ? | ? | ? |
| Games Spin | The Fedora Games spin offers a perfect show-case of the best games available in Fedora. The included games span several genres, from first person shooters to real-time and turn based strategy games to puzzle games. Not all the games available in Fedora are included on this spin, but trying out this spin will give you a fair impression of Fedora's abilities to run great games. | 2011-10-24 | Approved for F18, Recurring | Yes | < 4 GiB | Tested alpha TC6 on i686, live boot and hard drive install and boot. The image is currently a bit oversized, but that is acceptable for alpha. I did a quick test of Alpha RC1 and it seemed to work as a live image (no install testing was done), though rebooting hung. | ? | Between TC4 and RC1 the spin went oversize, but it still works and will fit on a common DVD. If there is an RC2 it should be back under size. The spin functions and installs to hard drive. |
| KDE | KDE based Desktop | 2011-10-24 | Approved for F18, Recurring | Yes | <= 1.4 GB | ? | ? | yes |
| LXDE Spin | The Fedora LXDE spin is meant to be a lightweight but yet complete desktop based on LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. | 2011-10-24 | Approved for F18, Recurring | Yes | <= 700 MiB | yes | yes | yes |
| MATE-Compiz Spin | The Fedora MATE spin is meant to provide users with a classic, lightweight and traditional looking desktop. | 2013-05-31 | Approved for F19, Recurring | Yes | <= 1.5 GB | yes | yes | yes |
| QA Test Day Spin | The purpose of this spin is to provide a model kickstart file to people organizing Test Days that can easily be tweaked for specific Test Days. | 2011-10-24 | Approved for F18, Recurring | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Robotics Spin | Create a spin that provides an out-of-the-box usable robotic simulation environment featuring a linear demo to introduce new users. Additionally we want to add as many robotics related packages to the spin to maximize out-of-the-box usable hardware and software. | 2011-10-24 | Approved for F18 | Yes | < 4 GiB | ? | yes (2014-10-24 compose tested) | Yes (RC4) |
| Fedora Scientific | Fedora Scientific spin aims to create a Fedora desktop based spin which will have a generic toolset for Linux users whose profession/studies involve scientific research. To learn more, see the documentation. | 2011-10-24 | Approved for F18 | Yes | ~3.3 GiB | Tested with F21 Alpha RC1. Results: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Packages_Testing | Tested with F21 Beta TC1. Results: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Packages_Testing | F21 TC2: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Packages_Testing#Fedora_21_TC2 |
| Security Spin | The Fedora Security Spin provides a safe test environment to work on security auditing, forensics, system rescue and teaching security testing methodologies in universities and other organizations. The spin is maintained by a community of security testers and developers. It comes with the clean and fast LXDE Desktop Environment and a customized menu that provides all the instruments needed to follow a proper test path for security testing or to rescue a broken system. The Live image has been crafted to make it possible to install software while running, and if you are running it from a USB stick created with the LiveUSB Creator's overlay feature, you can install and update software and save your test results permanently. Additional information is available at the Security Spin home page and its wiki page. | 2014-09-06 | Approved for F18, Recurring | Yes | <= 1 GB | yes | ? | ? |
| Sugar on a Stick Spin | Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) enables children to reclaim computers. SoaS aims to make it easy for children, parents, or local deployers to provide each student with a small device (USB stick or thumbdrive) that can starts any computer with the student's personalized Sugar environment. We would like to see Sugar's presence, journal, and clarity principles usable on any machine — at school, at home, and anywhere there is a suitable computing device. | 2011-10-24 | Approved for F18, Recurring | Yes | <= 700 MiB | yes | yes RC4 | yes RC5 |
| XFCE Spin | The Fedora Xfce spin showcases the Xfce desktop, which aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and user friendly. Xfce is a full fledged desktop using the freedesktop.org standard. | 2011-10-24 | Approved for F18, Recurring | Yes | 1GB USB | yes | yes | yes |