The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released the Fedora remix designed for its Raspberry Pi microcomputer. The remix is a distribution comprised of software packages from the Fedora ARM project, plus a small number of additional packages that are modified from the Fedora versions or which cannot be included in Fedora due to licensing issues – in particular, the libraries for accessing the VideoCore GPU on the Raspberry Pi, according to the foundation.
The current version of the remix is based on Fedora 14. However, the foundation expects to announced a version based on Fedora 17 at the same time as the desktop version is launched. "The Fedora ARM project is hard at work building Fedora 17, which we hope to release concurrently with the PC versions in May. This should be the most complete Fedora ARM release produced to date. Students in the SBR600 course at Seneca College are working on an improved version of the Remix incorporating files from Fedora ARM 17, and this will also be released in May," it said. 
The Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix is available as an SD card image, which includes a little over 640 packages. It provides both text-mode and graphical interfaces (LXDE/XFCE) with an assortment of programming languages, applications, system tools, and services for both environments.
"There are over 16,000 software packages available from the Fedora ARM repositories which can be easily installed using the Internet to customise your system to meet your needs and interests (again, using either command-line or graphical tools)," according to the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
The Linux kernel provided in the Fedora Remix image is the Raspberry Pi 3.1.9 kernel from GitHub, with a combined Fedora/Raspberry Pi configuration file. This configuration includes the devices in the System-on-a-Chip, modular support for most USB devices and optional network features, and kernel features expected by Fedora packages, including IPv6.
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