Fedora 7 Chosen as LiveContent CD Platform

The Fedora 7 Linux distribution has been chosen as the platform for the Creative Commons LiveContent CD, an initiative to showcase free, open-source software and Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content.

The LiveContent CD is the result of collaboration across a number of organizations, including Red Hat, which is providing in-kind engineering support via Fedora 7, as well as software applications including OpenOffice, The Gimp, Inkscape, Firefox, multimedia viewers, open document templates and others from the community.

Worldlabel.com, a member of the Open Document Format Alliance, is supplying ongoing support for the development and distribution of the LiveContent CD.

Fedora 7, which is the result of community-based open-source collaboration, has a new build capacity that allows for the creation of custom distributions and individual appliances.

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