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What does the term "Fedora Remix" mean?
== What is Pidora? ==
Pidora (Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix) is a software distribution based upon the [[:fedora:Architecture/ARM|Fedora ARM secondary architecture project]], which in turn is a part of the [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Project]. It includes some Pidora no longer contains software which cannot that can't be included in Fedora because , though there are still reasons why it is not licensed under any unable to be in Fedora. Due to the lack of kernel support in the licenses approved by the [http://opensource.org Open Source Initiative]Fedora kernel and it was built separate from Fedora. See the Fedora wiki [[:fedora:Remix|Remix]] page for information about Fedora Remixes.
The Remix was produced by the [[Main Page|Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology]] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
== What does the term "Fedora Remix" mean? ==
The term [[:fedora:Remix|Fedora Remix]] has a special meaning within the Fedora Project: it denotes a custom distribution of packages from the Fedora Project, optionally including packages which cannot be included in the main Fedora distribution because of licensing or other issues. In the case of the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix, the Pidora does not contain proprietary software provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the SOC vendor Broadcom cannot be included directly that is not allowed in Fedora([[:fedora:Licensing:Main#Binary_Firmware|Binary Firmware]]), however it will still remain a Fedora Remix.
In a practical sense, the Pidora 18 (Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix ) accesses all software package packages from repositories from created and managed in CDOT. These packages are all armv6, so they are not hosted by the Fedora ARM project as well as a set of repositories specific to the Project. Pidora 18 (Raspberry Pi, which are manged by Seneca. The Fedora Remix ) images are built all created from these repositories, and they using our kickstart: [[Pidora_kickstart|Pidora 18 Kickstart]]. These repositories are also accessed by used during yum for package update/installation/removal.
A Fedora Remix may use the [[:fedora:Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Secondary_Mark|Secondary Mark]], a trademark for identifying remixes. We have obtained permission to modify the colour of the lozenge in the Secondary Mark to match the maroon colour in the Raspberry Pi logo.
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