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Official Fedora Spins
Name | Summary | Updated | Status |
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AOS Spin | Appliances are pre-installed, pre-configured, system images. This Spin is intended to make it easier for anyone (ISVs, developers, OEMS, etc) to create and deploy virtual appliances. The AOS (The Appliance Operating System) is a scaled down version of Fedora with a small footprint containing only the packages necessary to run an appliance. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
BrOffice.org Spin | Due to a brand layer introduced in OpenOffice.org 3.0, Fedora now has the BrOffice.org brand for the office suite, starting with Fedora 10. This spin is intended to be a Brazilian Portuguese localized spin that provides the legal brand for OpenOffice.org in Brazil. It will be based on Fedora 12 Desktop Spin. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
Education Spin | The purpose of this spin is to create a ready-to-go development environment for contributing to educational projects inside, but also outside of the Fedora ecosystem. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
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. Release Notes | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
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. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
LXDE Spin | The Fedora LXDE spin is meant to be a lightweight but yet complete desktop based on LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
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. | 2009-07-27 | APPROVED, recurring |
Upcoming Spins
Name | Summary | Status |
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Geo Spin | Fedora Geo Spin is a collection of mapping tools that run on Fedora. This includes tools for map making, integration into OpenStreetMap, and components that can be run on a GPS enabled device. | .ks goes to custom-kickstarts RPM package. No official release |
Haskell Spin | This spin provides GHC, libraries, cabal-install, Hugs and other related tools. It could be used in Uni CS labs, etc and by people who want a portable Haskell development environment. | .ks goes to custom-kickstarts RPM package. No official release |
Security Spin | Provides a fully functional LiveCD based on Fedora for use in security auditing, forensics, and penetration testing. | Not yet approved by Spins SIG at July 27th 2009, but wants to go the full 9 yards |