Hi Fedora fellows!
My name is Jesús Franco, and i'm a Fedora contributor from México city.
I'm working with Fedora from 2 years ago and GNU/Linux systems since
2006. I'm not not technical developer not designer, merely a translator
and ambassador who focus on software and culture freedom.
I've become interested in a remix of Fedora based just on FaiF software.
Please correct me if i'm wrong but i think the kernel is the only tiny
piece of software it's non free. I'm not saying redistributable, but free
as in freedom.
There is a project called Blag who includes the kernel-libre provided by
Linux-libre project (maintained for Alexandre Oliva, engineer at Red
Hat), and another "purified" software like icecat instead of upstream
firefox. IMHO, it's not necessary a whole new project just to provide to
users worried about non-free blobs in the kernel a kernel-libre. It's
easy and straightforward to do it in Fedora as it is now.
However i'd like to provide (under the umbrella of Fedora and as an
alternative as part of my Fedora ambassador activities) a remix based in
just free software, providing tools like ffmped, mplayer or similar
covered with patents and available in rpmfusion-free repo. Similar to
Omega remix by Rahul Sundaram.
Another question is the visual identity, i've heard some complains about
the displacement of nodoka as default theme of Gnome. I'd like to include
in a remix as default theme too, among another "freedom brands" like
libreoffice, and focus my remix in the latinamerican locales. Thus
hopefully letting more space to include office and graphics apps. I think
in liveUSBs of 1GB size, more than a classic remix of <700 MB.
This is my general introduction, i'll slice this into smaller and
specific questions of how to do thing 1, thing 2, and so on. I'll document
too, everything in our common wiki for reuse for anyone who can be useful.
Best regards.
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Salud, tierra y libertad
Jesús Franco Fedora Ambassador and translator.
http://identi.ca/tzk