Russian Fedora Remix
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Russian Fedora Remix is a remix of the Fedora
Fedora (operating system)
Fedora is a RPM-based, general purpose collection of software, including an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat...

 Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 distribution adapted for Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

. However, it is neither a copy of the original Fedora nor a new GNU/Linux distribution. The project aims to ensure that Fedora fully satisfies the needs of Russian users with many additional features provided out of the box
Out of the box
Out of the box is the term used to denote items, functionalities, or features that do not require any additional installation. In addition to being used for tangible products, the phrase is often used in a less literal sense for software, which may not be distributed in an actual box but offer...

 (e.g., specific software packages, pre-installed drivers for popular graphics processors, manuals in Russian).

History

The project was originally established by Arkady "Tigro" Shain under the name of Tedora. The main inspiration for this was Fedora 9 being very inconvenient for Russian users with the bug impeding the successful installation in case the packages were customized.

The project's official status was announced at the conference held in MEPhI on 20 November 2008. That dayTedora merged into the newly established Russian Fedora founded by Fedora Project
Fedora Project
The Fedora Project is an endeavor sponsored by Red Hat to co-ordinate the development of the Fedora operating system. Founded on September 2003 as a result of a merger between the Red Hat Linux and old Fedora Linux projects...

, Red Hat
Red Hat
Red Hat, Inc. is an S&P 500 company in the free and open source software sector, and a major Linux distribution vendor. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide....

, VDEL and VNIINS. The latter is now the project's technological center.

Starting with the 11th version the name of the project has been changed to Russian Fedora Remix to comply with the Fedora's regulations regarding the usage of the trademark.

The project's logo was established on 10 March 2010.

Releases

Release Date Status
Tedora 9 final release July 1, 2008 released
Tedora 9.1 release September 30, 2008 released
Russian Fedora 10 final release November 25, 2008 released
Russian Fedora 10.1 release February 24, 2009 released
Russian Fedora 10.2 release May 14, 2009 released
Russian Fedora Remix 11 final release June 9, 2009 released
Russian Fedora Remix 12 final release November 17, 2009 released
Russian Fedora Remix 13 final release May 25, 2010 released


New versions are planned to be released simultaneously with Fedora ones.

Tedora 9

The following are the general differences from Fedora 9:
  • The first release of Fedora 9 contained the bug which impeded the successful installation in the Russian language if the packages were customized. This problem was due to the error in the Russian translation of the Fedora installer Anaconda. The error also occurred during the installation in the text mode after the packages had been selected. Both bugs were fixed in Tedora.
  • SELinux was disabled by default.
  • The support for ReiserFS
    ReiserFS
    ReiserFS is a general-purpose, journaled computer file system designed and implemented by a team at Namesys led by Hans Reiser. ReiserFS is currently supported on Linux . Introduced in version 2.4.1 of the Linux kernel, it was the first journaling file system to be included in the standard kernel...

    , ext4
    Ext4
    The ext4 or fourth extended filesystem is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as the successor to ext3.It was born as a series of backward compatible extensions to ext3, many of them originally developed by Cluster File Systems for the Lustre file system between 2003 and 2006, meant to...

     and jfs
    JFS
    -Computing:* Journaling file system , a type of file system* JFS , a journaling file system by IBM* JFS , an OEM version of the Veritas File System, a journaling file system by Veritas...

     was introduced.
  • Tedora was distributed with the patched loader Grub to allow booting the system installed on ext4.
  • The installation disk included GNOME Desktop Environment, K Desktop Environment, XFCE Desktop Environment and IceWM Window Manager.
  • The repositories Fedora Updates, Livna, Tigro and Tigro Non-Free were used.
  • During the network installation the Tedora repository should have been used instead of the Fedora repository in order to receive the packages. This was due to the changed name of the distribution. For other repositories the tick in the package selection window was sufficient.
  • The font loader was added to the file /etc/rc.sysinit which solved the problem with the incorrect rendering of the starting phrase "udev".
  • Only European languages were included on the installation disk.
  • The keyboard layout "English (US)" is default for the Russian and Ukrainian versions. This allowed the easy creation of a new user profile during the first start of the system.
  • The packages could be installed directly from the installation DVD.
  • The keys of the Livna and Tigro repositories were automatically imported to PackageKit during the installation.
  • There were many programs in Tedora which were not included on the original Fedora DVD. Some notable ones are: XFCE desktop environment; window managers IceWM and fluxbox; full support of mp3, DVD, DivX and other US-problematic codecs; Flash-plugin which worked "out of the box" even under x86-64; Opera browser; VLC player; Compiz Fusion and Nvidia drivers.
  • In Tedora all fonts were rendered as they should. Some additional TrueType fonts were also added.

Russian Fedora 10

Russian Fedora 10 was released on 25 November 2008.
The following are the main differences from Fedora 10:
  • Support of all popular audio and video codecs. Many proprietary video card drivers were also supported.
  • XFCE
    Xfce
    Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris, and BSD – though recent compatibility issues have arisen with regard to BSD Unix platforms...

    , LXDE
    LXDE
    LXDE is a free and open source desktop environment for Unix and other POSIX compliant platforms, such as Linux or BSD. The goal of the project is to provide a desktop environment that is fast and energy efficient...

     and IceWM
    IceWM
    IceWM is a stacking window manager for the X Window System graphical infrastructure, written by Marko Maček. It was coded from scratch in C++ and is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License...

     were available from the installation medium.
  • SELinux was set to the Permissive mode by default.
  • RPM Fusion and Tigro repositories were used by default.
  • Different base installation modes were added: GNOME
    GNOME
    GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

     Desktop, KDE
    KDE
    KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

     Desktop, XFCE Desktop, etc..
  • Package installation from the medium.
  • KDM was used instead of GDM
    GNOME Display Manager
    GDM provides a simpler to use alternative display manager for the X Window System's XDM.The X Window System by default uses the XDM display manager. However, resolving XDM configuration issues typically involves editing a configuration file. GDM allows users to customize or troubleshoot settings...

     in case of KDE being the only installed desktop environment.

Russian Fedora 10.1

Russian Fedora 10.1 was released on 24 February 2009.
Improvements:
  • Problems when switching the keyboard layout were fixed. Layout indicators were added to GNOME and KDE.
  • PackageKit
    PackageKit
    PackageKit is an open source and free suite of software applications designed to provide a consistent and high-level front end for a number of different package management systems...

     allowed to install/uninstall programs from the installation disk without the internet access.
  • Folders were opened in the same window in Nautilus.
  • Accelerators of the GNOME Terminal menu were disabled.
  • The Tigro repository had been completely replaced with the Russian Fedora repository.
  • System installation bugs were fixed.

Russian Fedora 10.2

Russian Fedora 10.2 was released on 14 May 2009. The differences from the previous release are updated software and bug fixes.

Russian Fedora Remix 11

Russian Fedora Remix 11 was released on the same day as Fedora 11: June 9, 2009. The distribution was available on various media: installation DVD, LiveCD (KDE
KDE
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

, GNOME
GNOME
GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

 or Xfce
Xfce
Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris, and BSD – though recent compatibility issues have arisen with regard to BSD Unix platforms...

) and LiveDVD (KDE
KDE
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

, GNOME
GNOME
GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

, Xfce
Xfce
Xfce is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris, and BSD – though recent compatibility issues have arisen with regard to BSD Unix platforms...

 and LXDE
LXDE
LXDE is a free and open source desktop environment for Unix and other POSIX compliant platforms, such as Linux or BSD. The goal of the project is to provide a desktop environment that is fast and energy efficient...

). Two architectures were supported: i586 and x86-64.

Differences from Fedora 11:
  • The installation DVD contained only languages used in Europe and the Post-Soviet states.
  • Many keyboard layout switching improvements.
  • Multimedia codecs, network adapter drivers and NVidia graphic card drivers were added.

Russian Fedora Remix 12

Russian Fedora Remix 12 was released on 17 November 2009. As a result of the adoption of the new compression algorithm (XZ, the new LZMA
LZMA
The Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm is an algorithm used to perform data compression. It has been under development since 1998 and was first used in the 7z format of the 7-Zip archiver...

format) the installation DVD contained more packages compared to previous versions. All languages of the original Fedora were included on this DVD.

Russian Fedora Remix 13

The release of RFRemix 13 came out on 25 May 2010.

Apart from the usual set of changes like added multimedia codecs or additional desktop environments, RFRemix 13 has introduced the following features into Fedora 13 (only notable ones are listed):
  • Firstboot contains the special screen for changing some system preferences, for example, disabling IPv6, enabling ctrl+alt+backspace, choosing the login manager, and others.
  • The feature of setting up different key combinations for switching the keyboard layout for the Russian language.
  • Usage of Firefox 3.6.4 pre build4 which is believed to work stabler than 3.6.4 release.
  • SELinux is set to the Enforcing mode by default.
  • Updated Russian Fedora logos.

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