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| == RPM Fusion launched == | = RPM Fusion launched = |
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| The RPM Fusion team is proud to announce the public availability of our repositories: | The RPM Fusion team is proud to announce the public availability of our repositories that provide software which the Fedora project cannot provide as easy-to-install RPM packages. |
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| * "free" for Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines) which can't be included in Fedora because it might be patent encumbered in the US * "nonfree" for non-free software, that is everything else which can't be in free; this includes software with public available source-code that has "no commercial use"-like restrictions |
== What applications can be found in the RPM Fusion repositories == |
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| We provide support for all 'current' versions of Fedora including devel, for i386, x86_64, ppc and ppc64. | The RPM Fusion project provides a variety of different applications: |
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| All users that installed Livna properly (e.g. by installing the livna-release package) will get RPM Fusion free and nonfree repositories enabled automatically. This also means that Livna will not be maintained any more and it is superseded by RPM Fusion. | === Sound and Video / Multimedia applications === We have all that is needed to play all kinds of media files, such as MP3 or unencrypted DVDs and ship additional multimedia applications such as MPlayer, VLC and Xine. === Kernel Drivers === We offer the ATI and Nvidia closed-source drivers in a Fedora-compatible RPM package for users whose video cards are not yet fully supported with the stock open source drivers. === Games === Bub's Brothers, Secret Maryo Chronicles, UFO: Alien Invasion, Wörms of Prey, xrick, GLtron and others! === Emulators === We offer emulators for most retro platform: VICE for Commodore 64 and other vintage Commodore 8 bit computers; E-UAE for Amiga; Nestopia, FCEUltra for NES; ZSNES and Snes9x for Super NES and many many others! == More Information == RPM Fusion provides packages for all Fedora releases that are supported by Fedora project, which includes the development branch "rawhide". We have two separate repository lines: * "free" for Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines) which the Fedora project cannot ship * "nonfree" for redistributable software that is not Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines); this includes software with publicly available source-code that has "no commercial use"-like restrictions |
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| RPM Fusion is a project started by the Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna teams. It aims to bring together many packagers from various 3rd party repositories and build a single add-on repository for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. | RPM Fusion is a project started by the Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna teams. It aims to bring together many packagers from various 3rd party repositories and build a single add-on repository for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We hope to attract new Fedora packagers and hope that other 3rd party repositories will join us. |
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| We hope to attract new Fedora packagers and many other 3rd party repositories. | Are you interested? Do you want to help? Don't hesitate and subscribe to our mailing lists at http://lists.rpmfusion.org or meet us in the #rpmfusion channel on freenode. |
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| You are welcome to join us at: http://rpmfusion.org |
Do you find problems? Fill bugs at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/ |
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| The RPM Fusion Team. | === A note for Livna users === All users that installed Livna properly (e.g. by installing the livna-release package) will get RPM Fusion free and nonfree repositories enabled automatically. All packages in Livna that are superseded by packages from RPM Fusion will soon be removed from the Livna repositories. == Final notes == Thanks for you interest in RPM Fusion. The RPM Fusion Team (http://rpmfusion.org) |
RPM Fusion launched
The RPM Fusion team is proud to announce the public availability of our repositories that provide software which the Fedora project cannot provide as easy-to-install RPM packages.
What applications can be found in the RPM Fusion repositories
The RPM Fusion project provides a variety of different applications:
Sound and Video / Multimedia applications
We have all that is needed to play all kinds of media files, such as MP3 or unencrypted DVDs and ship additional multimedia applications such as MPlayer, VLC and Xine.
Kernel Drivers
We offer the ATI and Nvidia closed-source drivers in a Fedora-compatible RPM package for users whose video cards are not yet fully supported with the stock open source drivers.
Games
Bub's Brothers, Secret Maryo Chronicles, UFO: Alien Invasion, Wörms of Prey, xrick, GLtron and others!
Emulators
We offer emulators for most retro platform: VICE for Commodore 64 and other vintage Commodore 8 bit computers; E-UAE for Amiga; Nestopia, FCEUltra for NES; ZSNES and Snes9x for Super NES and many many others!
More Information
RPM Fusion provides packages for all Fedora releases that are supported by Fedora project, which includes the development branch "rawhide".
We have two separate repository lines:
- "free" for Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines) which the Fedora project cannot ship
- "nonfree" for redistributable software that is not Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing Guidelines); this includes software with publicly available source-code that has "no commercial use"-like restrictions
Please read our wiki page about how to enable these repositories: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
RPM Fusion is a project started by the Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna teams. It aims to bring together many packagers from various 3rd party repositories and build a single add-on repository for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We hope to attract new Fedora packagers and hope that other 3rd party repositories will join us.
Are you interested? Do you want to help? Don't hesitate and subscribe to our mailing lists at http://lists.rpmfusion.org or meet us in the #rpmfusion channel on freenode.
Do you find problems? Fill bugs at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/
A note for Livna users
All users that installed Livna properly (e.g. by installing the livna-release package) will get RPM Fusion free and nonfree repositories enabled automatically. All packages in Livna that are superseded by packages from RPM Fusion will soon be removed from the Livna repositories.
Final notes
Thanks for you interest in RPM Fusion.
The RPM Fusion Team (http://rpmfusion.org)