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278 Part III . Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution As of this writing, Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8, and 9 releases all have Fedora Legacy Project software repositories from which you can download available critical software updates. By following a few simple steps from the Fedora Legacy download page (www.fedoralegacy.org/download), you can use yum or apt tools to configure your system to automatically download and install selected packages. Fedora Legacy Project s Web site provides a lot of information, from a mailing list and IRC channel you can join to overview material you can read about the project. Fedora Software Repositories A ton of open source software is available in the world that is not included in Fedora Core. To coordinate the gathering and testing of open source, third-party software, the Fedora Extras Project (www.fedora.us) was formed by people outside Red Hat Inc. (with Red Hat s blessing). Unlike Fedora Legacy repositories, which consist of updates to software already in the Fedora distribution, the Fedora Extras Project encourages people to build their software into RPM packages that can easily be installed in Fedora Core and Red Hat Linux systems. Fedora Extras provides guidelines for producing these packages and then performs quality-assurance testing and security verification on them before adding them to the Fedora tree for anyone to download and use. To find sites that have packages included in Fedora Extras, check out the list of Fedora Extras mirror sites (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraMirrorList). The Fedora Channels page (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraChannels) also includes software channels available for Fedora (and other Red Hat Linux systems). Although there is great value in having a central organization coordinating and testing the software packages available for Fedora, the particular package you might want may not be available through Fedora Extras for one reason or another. Two other places you can check for RPM packages of third-party software available to use with Fedora are: . Fedora Tracker (www.fedoratracker.org) Use this site to search known repositories of Fedora third-party software for the packages you are interested in. You can search by package name, description, or Fedora release. The site offers clear descriptions of the different software packages available (more than 18,000 packages at the time of this writing, and many more are sure to be available by the time you read this). This site is not officially associated with the Fedora Project. . RPM Livna.org (http://rpm.livna.org) When Fedora.us merged with Red Hat Inc. to form the Fedora Project, some third-party software maintained by Fedora.us didn t meet Red Hat s standards for distribution. In particular, there are licensing and patent issues surrounding some multimedia players
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