Software Info

Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design Premium

2008-02-10T22:52:00.000-08:00

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing. It combines all-new versions of essential tools for professional page layout, image editing, illustration, and Adobe PDF workflows with new tools for producing engaging websites, interactive experiences, and mobile content--all in a unified, intuitive design environment.

From exploring design concepts to finessing production details, you can leverage the tightly integrated tools in Creative Suite 3 Design Premium to make even your most visionary ideas real--in print, on the web, and on mobile devices.

Deliver Innovative Ideas in Print, Web, and Mobile Design

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing. It combines all-new versions of essential tools for producing everything from professional page layouts to rich interactive experiences in a unified, intuitive environment.

Design with essential tools
Let your ideas take flight with Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, which equips you to craft your best creative work more easily and efficiently than ever before. From thinking through concepts to finessing production details, you can leverage the intuitive tools in Creative Suite 3 Design Premium to make even your most visionary ideas real. Creative Suite 3 Design Premium lets you stay true to your creative intent without making compromises along the way.

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Adobe Illustrator CS3

2008-02-10T22:49:00.001-08:00

Features

* The ideal solution to efficiently create sophisticated artwork and illustrations for virtually any medium
* Explore and apply color variations using dynamic new color controls
* Be more productive with new and enhanced features to get your artwork going
* Streamline your design workflows by moving easily between Illustrator CS3 and other Adobe applications
* Enhance your artwork with professional typography and transparent effects

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

2008-02-10T22:49:00.000-08:00

Features

* The ideal solution for quickly and easily designing, developing, and maintaining websites using both a visual design interface and a streamlined coding environment
* Create CSS-based web pages with comprehensive tools, including the CSS panel, layout visualization, the Style Rendering toolbar, Browser Compatibility Check, and prebuilt CSS layouts
* Build and maintain web applications using the latest development technologies, including Ajax, PHP, and Adobe ColdFusion
* Incorporate Adobe Flash Video into websites and applications with five clicks of a mouse
* Integrate XML data using a drag-and-drop workflow

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Upgrade [Mac]

2008-02-10T22:42:00.000-08:00

Features

* The ideal solution for professional, powerful photo editing
* Boost your productivity with a streamlined interface, enhancements to raw-image processing and asset management workflows, and more
* Experience unrivaled editing power with nondestructive filters, more precise color-correction controls, and more powerful cloning and healing tools
* Easily create rich composites using new tools for automatically aligning and blending layers and making quick selections
* Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, Web designers, and print service providers

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Adobe Photoshop CS3

2008-02-10T22:35:00.000-08:00

Adobe Photoshop CS3 software accelerates your path from imagination to imagery. Ideal for photographers, graphic designers, and web designers, the professional standard delivers new features such as automatic layer alignment and blending that enable advanced compositing. Live filters boost the comprehensive, nondestructive editing toolset for increased flexibility. And a streamlined interface and new timesaving tools make your work flow faster.

Work more productively
Take advantage of a wide range of improvements designed to boost your productivity. Experience native performance on Intel based and PowerPC Macs and on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Maximize your workspace with a streamlined interface, process raw images with increased speed and quality, and manage assets more efficiently in the revamped Adobe Bridge CS3. And enjoy complete compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software (sold separately), so the changes you make to an image in one product will automatically appear in the other.

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Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional

2008-02-10T22:34:00.000-08:00

Features

* Enable anyone using free Adobe Reader software (version 7.0 or 8) to participate in document reviews, fill and save electronic forms offline, and digitally sign documents.
* Combine documents, drawings, and rich media content into a single, polished Adobe PDF document. Optimize file size and arrange files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions, or orientation.
* Send documents for review and track which reviewers have contributed feedback. Compile comments into a single PDF document with one-button ease and sort them by author, date, or page.
* Create Adobe PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Office applications. Windows users can also create Adobe PDF documents from Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio, Access, Publisher, AutoCAD, and Lotus Notes.
* Combine multiple files as PDF documents in a searchable, sortable PDF package that maintains the individual security settings and digital signatures of each included PDF document.

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Microsoft Expression Blend

2008-02-10T22:30:00.000-08:00

Expression Blend opens the door to creating elegant and compelling user interface designs using a full spectrum of media types, including vector and pixel art, video, audio, text, 3D content, and animation. With it you'll work inside a rich, real-time design environment that's optimized for creative professionals to shorten the distance between idea and execution. Expression Blend also lets you add interactivity to your designs without writing code -- just add fully customizable controls, from simply-styled buttons to sophisticated custom list views. You can also easily connect interface elements to each other or to live data, and you can layout interfaces using containers that adapt your content and interface to various screen resolutions and form factors. Simply drag and drop to add developer-written custom code or controls to your application.

Deliver Better Experiences
The bottom line is that Expression Media will help you to deliver applications that are more usable and achieve greater end-user satisfaction and productivity. By leveraging the full power of the desktop and Internet, you can provide your audience with big-impact, high-performance user experiences that drive brand recognition and repeated use. And if the world is ultimately your goal, Expression Media lets you easily create localizable and accessible applications for global audiences.

Expression Blend is the professional design tool to create engaging, Web-connected, user experiences for Windows. Enhance your creativity and develop art projects for any medium. You'll produce images, videos and presentations that looks great and get attention, far more efficiently than ever.

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Microsoft Expression Web Professional Design Tool

2008-02-10T22:24:00.000-08:00

The Microsoft Expression suite of professional design tools and innovative technologies will take your creative possibilities to a new level. Whether you are designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop, or managing digital assets and content, Microsoft Expression applications will help. Microsoft Expression Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites that deliver superior quality on the Web.

Build and format views of industry-standard XML data using drag-and drop tools for quick visualization.

Design customized views of industry-standard XML data using powerful drag-and-drop tools, and see how your data will look within your CSS site design.

Create CSS-based, XHTML 1.0 Transitional-conforming Web sites by default. View larger.

Generate elegant, modern CSS layouts with state-of-the-art surface design tools. View larger.
New Era, New Tool
Microsoft Expression Web helps you to reduce complexity and ease data integration by using powerful design tools and task panes to quickly incorporate XML data. You can seamlessly integrate Web design and development teams with Expression Web and Visual Studio's superior support for XML, ASP.NET and XHTML. The software is also designed to help you unleash your creative ideas and bring your Web sites to life with sophisticated CSS design features. Visual designers, specialized task panes, and tool bars give you precise control of page layout and formatting. These superior tools will let you build dynamic, interactive pages that harness the power of the Web, and the built-in support for today's modern Web standards means that it's easier than ever to optimize your sites for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility. This all translates to superior performance with the same Microsoft passion about delivering the highest quality and standards possible.

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Microsoft Expression Studio

2008-02-10T22:22:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard

2008-02-10T22:20:00.000-08:00

Write Code Faster
At the core of all software solutions is the code that developers write. Visual Studio 2008 helps developers write code faster through a wealth of productivity-enhancing features, such as IntelliSense technology, auto-completion, auto-colorization, method lookup, syntax and type checking, code refactoring, code-snippet management, and many more.

Avoid Memorizing Syntax
Introduced by Microsoft more than a decade ago, IntelliSense technology in Visual Studio is a form of automated completion that displays a list of the members that are available for that class or object after a developer types a class or object name and a period. It speeds coding by reducing the number of keystrokes required and the need to reference external documentation. IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2008 adds support for JavaScript to provide the same benefits to Web developers, including those who are using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) programming techniques.

Write Less Code
Visual Studio includes prebuilt building blocks for native and managed code, such as Active Type Library, Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC), and the Microsoft .NET Framework. By taking advantage of these, developers can reduce the amount of low-level code they must write and instead focus on solving business problems. Visual Studio 2008 supports the .NET Framework version 3.5, which includes enhancements to the base class libraries, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Windows CardSpace--and delivers improved interoperability between native and managed code.

Handle Data More Productively
Programming against data sources has traditionally meant having to learn a new data access technology or paradigm for each data source. Language-Integrated Query (LINQ), a set of extensions to the C# and Visual Basic languages and the .NET Framework 3.5, enables developers to employ a consistent approach and write less code when querying and transforming object collections, ADO.NET, XML data, and relational data from Microsoft SQL ServerÐbased databases. Developers using LINQ benefit from design-time assistance in Visual Studio 2008--such as statement completion, smart compile auto-correction, and IntelliSense technology--enabling them to invest less time in learning how to access the data through syntax for languages like T-SQL or XPATH and instead focus on what to do with the data.

Use Integrated Tools
Visual Studio 2008 also enhances developer productivity by providing an integrated set of tools for activities other than writing code. The Visual Studio project system makes all aspects of a project easy to manage, from writing the first line of code through packaging finished software for deployment. During development, visual designers, server and data explorers, debuggers, automated build tools, background compilation, integration with source code control, an integrated Help system, and a range of third-party extensions for Visual Studio all come together to help developers remain focused on business needs and deliver faster.

Program in Multiple Languages
Visual Studio supports several of the world's most popular programming languages, including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, and JavaScript, making it useful to a broad range of developers and for a broad range of applications. Solutions for Visual Studio from more than 200 other companies add support for additional languages and a multitude of other capabilities, enabling developers to continue using the same familiar tools as they learn new languages, grow their skills, address unique business needs, and switch between projects

Manage Project Files and Jump-Start New Projects
The Visual Studio 2008 project system enhances productivity by tying together the tools and files for a project. When developers select a prebuilt project template, the project system customizes the Visual Studio UI to support the task at hand. (For example, if a developer chooses to create an application for Windows, the project offers a Windows form item.) The Visual Studio project system is compatible with Microsoft Expression design software, enabling developers to collaborate with UI and Web designers.

Target Multiple Versions of the .NET Framework
With previous versions of Visual Studio, developers could build applications that ran on only one version of the .NET Framework. Visual Studio 2008 provides the ability to target versions 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5 of the .NET Framework from within a single environment, with the editor, designers, and debugger intelligently adapting to the specified version. With this capability, developers can upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 and begin taking advantage of the new benefits it provides without having to upgrade their projects or have multiple versions of Visual Studio installed.

Build Higher-Quality Applications
With the trend toward test-driven development and the importance of quality and security in distributed applications, unit testing is now an integral part of many developers' tasks. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition includes integrated support for unit testing, which was previously available only in Visual Studio Team System products.

Build Software for Windows
Developers can use Visual Studio 2008 to program against core Windows APIs, Microsoft Foundation Classes, the .NET Framework, or any of several software development kits (SDKs), enabling them to use a single tool set to build system services, device drivers, utilities, games, desktop software, line-of-business applications, and more. Regardless of the type of software, Visual Studio helps developers deliver rich user experiences, connect applications and business processes, and accelerate solution delivery.

Deliver Rich User Experiences
Visual designers in Visual Studio 2008 enable developers to create rich, engaging applications based on Windows Presentation Foundation, the graphical subsystem in the .NET Framework 3.5 for taking advantage of today's modern graphics hardware. Developers also can build applications that take advantage of the more than 8,000 new native APIs in Windows Vista, and can take advantage of enhancements in MFC and Visual C++ to easily move applications to the new Windows Vista look and feel.

Build Connected Solutions and Streamline Business Processes
Developers can use the graphical designer and debugger for Windows Communication Foundation in Visual Studio 2008 to easily connect systems or applications, programming to a common API regardless of the underlying transports and protocols used. Similarly, tools for Windows Workflow Foundation enable developers to model real-world business processes in software by providing the means to easily visualize, create, edit, and debug both human and machine-based workflows.

Collaborate with UI Designers
Support for Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) in Visual Studio 2008 enables developers to collaborate and share design assets with designers who use Microsoft Expression Blend design software. The ability to transfer user interface design elements between the developer and the designer means that edits to either the code or UI can be made simultaneously without affecting layout or code adversely. The developer and designer work on their respective tasks without any dependency on each other, and their efforts are then integrated by simply sharing source files.

Build Specialized Software
Visual Studio 2008 supports more than just the development of ÒmainstreamÓ applications for Windows. When developing Windows drivers to support new hardware or targeting platforms such as the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system, hardware vendors, software vendors, and others can program directly against the Win32 APIs and take advantage of Microsoft-provided device driver and game development kits to ensure compatibility and accelerate solution delivery.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 Win/Mac

2008-02-10T22:19:00.000-08:00

New Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software is the professional photographer's essential toolbox, providing one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens.

Quickly download images from your camera to your computer. Automatically rename files, organize folders, and even add metadata to photos as you import them.

Work in the Library module to organize photos into collections, to browse, evaluate, and compare images, and to add keywords so that you can easily find your images.

Jump to the Develop module to make global adjustments to photographs, including correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, and color casts.

Assemble and output high-quality printed contact sheets and generate sophisticated online web galleries and slide shows for client presentation.
To develop Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe worked directly with professional photographers. View this short video to hear what photographers have to say about their new application.

Why Lightroom?

Perform nondestructive editing
Enjoy robust support for more than 150 camera raw formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won't alter the original data, whether you're working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file.

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Mandrakelinux PowerPack 10.0

2008-01-06T01:14:00.000-08:00

Mandrakelinux was created in 1998 with the goal of making Linux® easier to use for everyone. At that time, Linux was already well-known as a powerful and stable operating system that demanded strong technical knowledge and extensive use of the "command line". Mandrakesoft saw this as an opportunity to integrate the best graphical desktop environments and contribute its own graphical configuration utilities and quickly became famous for setting the standard in ease-of-use and functionality. PowerPack is Mandrakesoft's premier Linux desktop product. PowerPack includes thousands of applications--everything from the most popular to the most advanced. With PowerPack 10.0, Mandrakesoft offers all the power and stability of Linux to both individuals and professional users in an easy-to-use and pleasant environment. Thousands of new users are discovering Linux each and every day and finding it a complete replacement for their previous operating system. Linux as a server or workstation has no reason to be jealous of any other more established operating systems. Features include:

* OpenOffice.org, Adobe Acrobat® Reader®, Real Player™, and Flash Player™
* Organize personal data with Kontact and Evolution/Browse the Web with Mozilla and Konqueror
* Listen to audio CVs and music files with KsCD and Totem
* Discover Kdevelop--a full-featured and easy-to-use IDE
* Compile your source code GCC; debug your programs with GDB
* Choose your favorite editor: Emacs, Xemacs or Vim
* Open source applications include: Linux Kernel 2.4 and 2.6, KDE 3.2; GNOME 2.4, Xfree86 4.3, Glibc 2.3.3, GCC 3.3.2, CUPS, URPMI, and more

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Linux Toolkit V12/99

2008-01-06T01:10:00.000-08:00

Linux Toolkit V12/99

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OpenLinux eServer 2.3

2008-01-06T01:07:00.000-08:00

OpenLinux eServer 2.3 from Caldera Systems is a server platform that lets you easily deploy and manage business solutions. Packed with over 20 server-specific Internet applications, 10 major server products, and easy Web-based remote management, it's pretuned for server-specific hardware to save you hours of configuration and administration time.

OpenLinux eServer 2.3 gives you the following servers:

* Apache Web server
* File/print server
* Linux
* Unix
* Microsoft
* Mail server
* POP3
* IMAP4
* FTP server
* DHCP server
* DNS server
* Internet news server
* Mailing list server
* PPP dial-in server
* SQUID proxy server

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Linux-Mandrake Complete 7.0

2008-01-06T01:04:00.001-08:00

Whether you want to explore this popular operating system or you want Linux to muscle up the performance of your computer, Linux Mandrake Complete 7.0 gives you all the great Linux features you're looking for along with the integrated office solution of StarOffice. StarOffice includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentation and graphics, database, and more, all within the fast and reliable Linux environment.

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Redhat Linux 6.1 Operating System (Professional)

2008-01-06T01:04:00.000-08:00

The latest release of the award-winning Red Hat Linux operating system is a family of products that incorporate easy installation, software update information, and access, as well as improved system management capabilities to enable users to harness the power of Linux.

Owning Official Red Hat Linux 6.1 entitles you to a powerful combination of Linux products and services. You receive direct support from Red Hat and access to official updates via priority FTP--features available only to customers who purchase the official box set. Other benefits of purchasing box set are technical support on installation; support of other free (open source) software projects, such as GNOME, XFree86, and GNU tools; printed manuals and media; and tons of Linux applications on CD-ROM.

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Complete Redhat Linux 5.2 Operating System Deluxe Secure Server

2008-01-06T00:56:00.000-08:00

Complete Redhat Linux 5.2 Operating System Deluxe Secure Server

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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake (AMD64 Edition) [DVD] - Linux Operating System

2008-01-06T00:53:00.000-08:00

Ubuntu offers you a complete Linux-based operating system, including all the major applications you need to play and work. With a strong focus on a desktop that just works, Ubuntu is a great choice for home or the office.

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Linspire Linux 4.5

2008-01-06T00:52:00.000-08:00

Linspire 4.5 is a full featured computer operating system based on Linux that combines the feature equivalency and ease of Microsoft Windows XP with the security, power and stability of Linux. Linspire is also file-compatible with all common file formats, including Microsoft Office Documents.

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Linux for Windows

2008-01-06T00:50:00.000-08:00

Linux for Windows is based on one of those ideas that's either brilliant or moronic, depending on your point of view. Aiming to simplify the installation and use of the increasingly popular open-source operating system, Macmillan devised a version of Linux-Mandrake that operates as a Windows shell.

This concept makes installation much less dangerous: instead of repartitioning your hard drive, you create a giant (500 to 1500 MB) image file as a kind of fake partition, then run Linux as if it were a Windows program. In theory, this should make installation easier; unfortunately, the user has to learn just as much to get this version of Linux going as any other, and support is practically nonexistent in comparison with others like Red Hat. What do you do when installation stops dead in a fit of kernel panic? Good luck figuring it out, either from the skimpy docs or the Web.

This product may fill a niche for advanced users who either don't want to partition or need to train Windows users on Linux, but the rest of us should either stick with Windows or get one of the better-supported versions of Linux. --Rob Lightner

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SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3 Update

2008-01-06T00:49:00.000-08:00

I have been using SuSE Linux since version 7.3. I have upgraded the 7.3 to 9.0 the last time, now 9.3 looked very promising. Installation is a breeze. Lots of software including development tools, games, and server functionality. I have been a happy SuSE user for over four years now. I hope they keep up their good work since they got acquired by Novell and won't make major upsetting changes for their licensing and usage. Corporate greed, you never know...

I am an avid Microsoft developer, administrator, and user (MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA), but if you want to get into Linux world, I assure you that you would not be disappointed if you get SuSE Linux 9.3. As they say, "Have a lot Fun!"

Cheers!

- Baskin

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Suse Linux 9.0 Professional Edition

2008-01-06T00:46:00.000-08:00

The new generation of the SUSE LINUX operating system with applications for private users, experienced Linux users, and ambitious developers. There is a complete office suite that is compatible with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. SUSE LINUX Professional combines the advanced technology, stability, and security of Open Source technology with a huge number of applications for PC users.

Features:

* Easy to install alongside Windows
* Includes a host of powerful, useful, and fun applications
* MS Office compatible office suite
* Quick and easy Internet access
* Extensive collection of multimedia applications
* Protection against viruses
* Extensive server and network functionality

New features and technologies in SUSE LINUX Professional:

* OpenOffice.org 1.1 with improved compatibility, new export/import features, and a large thesaurus
* GIMP 1.3 (developer version) the fully revised version of the free image processing application (GIMP 1.2 is also included)
* Desktop publishing with Scribus 1.0
* The CD burning application k3b now also burns DVDs
* Video editing application MainActor 5 (demo version)
* Dynamic menus through vfolder technology
* Automatic system recovery
* NTFS resizer for the automatic installation alongside Windows
* Numerous new YaST server modules for the configuration of home networks (Samba, DNS, DHCP, Apache, NTP)
* Kernel 2.4.21 with many features of the upcoming kernel 2.6
* Test version of the new kernel 2.6 for kernel developers

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Mandrake Linux Standard Edition 8.2

2008-01-06T00:44:00.001-08:00

Mandrake Linux Standard Edition 8.2 features three CDs, plus a detailed installation guide. Based on the award-winning Mandrake Linux operating system, this package includes the main open-source and commercial applications available. Both beginners and experienced users will appreciate the easy-to-use graphical installer, which features automated hardware detection.

Create and edit office documents with OpenOffice.org 641c, or edit images and photos with the GIMP, powerful graphics manipulation software. Manage your digital camera with gPhoto. Create and listen to MP3 and Ogg files with Grip and XMMS, and burn your own CDs with gCombust. You can also surf the Web with Mozilla and Konqueror, and chat online and send instant messages with Jabber (AOL, ICQ, Yahoo, and MSN compatible).

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Linux Operating System Red Hat 5.2 [CD-ROM] (CD-ROM)

2008-01-06T00:44:00.000-08:00

The newest version (5.2) of one of the most popular linux products! It's a complete POSIX based operating system that can be used as a UNIX workstation for applications ranging from Internet servers to reliable workgroup computing. The following value added bonus products are included: Linux Applications CD and over 500 packages from Apache to X Windows. Also includes Netscape Navigator and Communicator.

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Fedora Core 6 "Zod"

2008-01-06T00:42:00.000-08:00

The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, and following a set of project objectives. The results from this project include Fedora Core, a complete, general-purpose operating system built exclusively from open source software.

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