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This is a spin of Fedora that includes the Cinnamon Desktop Environment as the default as well as some other useful packages that don't come on the default live cd.
This is a spin of Fedora that includes the Cinnamon Desktop Environment as the default as well as some other packages to provide a more complete out-of-the-box desktop than the live CD does.
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This spin includes the Cinnamon Desktop Enviroment as the default.  It also includes LibreOffice and the libre-office-base package that don't come on the default Live CD.  Other pre-installed packages are Brasero, Gimp, the Geany text editor and some Nemo additions such as file-roller to better handle compressed files.   
This spin includes the Cinnamon Desktop Enviroment as the default.  It also includes LibreOffice and the libre-office-base package that don't come on the default Live CD.  Other pre-installed packages are Brasero, Gimp, the Geany text editor and some Nemo additions such as the file-roller package to make Nemo and Nautilus more functional.   


== Benefit to Fedora ==
== Benefit to Fedora ==


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Cinnamon gives Fedora users another option for an out-of-the-box desktop environment other than Gnome3.  It provides a Fedora-based alternative to other distributions such as Linux Mint. The Cinnamon spin also includes some of the packages that the base Live CD does not include. This gives the user a more complete desktop experience with less intial configuration and installation of additional packages required.   
Cinnamon gives Fedora users another option for an out-of-the-box desktop environment other than Gnome3.  It provides a Fedora-based alternative to other distributions such as Linux Mint. The Cinnamon spin also includes some packages that the base Live CD does not include, such as Libreoffice and Gimp. This gives the user a more complete desktop experience with less intial configuration and installation of additional packages required.   





Revision as of 21:01, 11 March 2014

Spin Name

Cinnamon

Summary

This is a spin of Fedora that includes the Cinnamon Desktop Environment as the default as well as some other packages to provide a more complete out-of-the-box desktop than the live CD does.

Owner(s)

  • Name: [[User:crokett| David Green]
  • email: crokett@gmail.com>

Detailed Description

This spin includes the Cinnamon Desktop Enviroment as the default. It also includes LibreOffice and the libre-office-base package that don't come on the default Live CD. Other pre-installed packages are Brasero, Gimp, the Geany text editor and some Nemo additions such as the file-roller package to make Nemo and Nautilus more functional.

Benefit to Fedora

Cinnamon gives Fedora users another option for an out-of-the-box desktop environment other than Gnome3. It provides a Fedora-based alternative to other distributions such as Linux Mint. The Cinnamon spin also includes some packages that the base Live CD does not include, such as Libreoffice and Gimp. This gives the user a more complete desktop experience with less intial configuration and installation of additional packages required.


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A modern Cinnamon desktop environment.

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