[dot] Fedora 7 Release Adds Installable KDE Live CD

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1180620522/

From: Kevin Kofler <>
Dept: shiny-like-the-moon
Date: Thursday 31/May/2007, @07:08

Fedora 7 Release Adds Installable KDE Live CD
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   The Fedora Project [http://fedoraproject.org] has announced
[http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-May/msg00009.html]
the immediate availability of their latest release, Fedora 7 (Moonshine)
including for the first time a KDE live CD/DVD showcasing KDE and  KDE
applications, which can also be installed to the hard disk, resulting in
 a regular Fedora installation with KDE.  Along  with other current
software, Fedora 7 includes KDE 3.5.6 [http://dot.kde.org/1169738902/].
Unfortunately, KDE 3.5.7 [http://dot.kde.org/1179831426/] was released
too late to  be included in Fedora 7, however it will be made available
as an update. The 32-bit version fits on a 700 MB  CD, the 64-bit
version needs DVD or special overlong CD media for space  reasons. KDE
is also included on the traditional installer DVD. KDE in Fedora 7
defaults to the default KDE look and feel, with Plastik as the widget
theme and CrystalSVG as the icon theme.
    Fedora 7, more screenshots at The Coding Studio
[http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/?linux_distribution_sm=Fedora%207%20%20RC2]

A lot of work has been  done to improve the KDE experience in this
release of Fedora. Thanks to the  merger of Core and Extras, the core
packages are now open to non-Red Hat  contributors, and Rex Dieter of
KDE-RedHat [http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net] fame is now 
co-maintaining the KDE packages with Red Hat's Than Ngo, bringing the 
packaging improvements from the KDE-RedHat project into the official
Fedora  packages. Work has also been done on KDM, including integration
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228111]  with
ConsoleKit [http://library.gnome.org/gdm/2.18/consolekit.html.en]  and a
new default theme, Fedora  Flying High
[http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=154550], with
support for face browsing (i.e. the user list with user  images), which
is now enabled by default. A KDE Special Interest Group
[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE]  has been created to work on
KDE and KDE applications in Fedora and maintains a  list of KDE-oriented
packages currently considered for inclusion into Fedora.  For the next
release, a plan [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KevinKofler/F8KDE4Plan]
to get  KDE 4 integrated is currently under discussion.

You may have noticed that there is no "Core" in the name this time. This
is  not an omission. Starting from this release, Fedora is no longer
split into  separate Core and Extras repositories. Instead, there is a
single collection  of packages, the Fedora Collection, from which
different "spins" are  produced, both traditional installer-based spins
and live CD/DVD spins. The  following spins will be of interest to KDE
users:

    * Fedora: the default installer-based spin, offering a package set
      comparable to the traditional Fedora Core.
    * KDE Live: a live CD/DVD spin based on KDE, using KDM as the
      display  manager and KDE applications such as Konqueror, KMail and
      KOffice as the  defaults. Alternatives such as OpenOffice.org or
      Firefox and other additional  software available from the Fedora
      Collection can be added after installation  to the hard disk.
    * Everything: not a real spin, but a Yum repository (also usable
      with  APT-RPM or Smart) containing the entire Fedora Collection.

     Note that only the installer-based spin can be used to upgrade from
a previous version of Fedora (without reinstalling). Live CDs or DVDs
can only be used for fresh installs (or reinstalls). Upgrades through
Yum, APT-RPM or Smart are possible, but strongly recommended against.

     Download the ISO through bittorrent
[http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/] or the download mirrors.
 [http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/]