RPM Fusion
| Company type | Software repository |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
| Founded | November 8, 2007 |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Products | Supplementary packages for Fedora Linux |
| Website | rpmfusion |
RPM Fusion serves as a software repository that provides supplementary packages tailored for Fedora Linux. This repository emerged from the consolidation of earlier sources—Livna, Dribble, and Freshrpms—that offered software excluded from Fedora due to its commitment to free software principles or potential legal constraints within the United States.
History
On November 8, 2007, the repositories Livna, Dribble, and Freshrpms combined to establish RPM Fusion, creating a single source for Fedora add-on packages. Although the initial intention was to have RPM Fusion ready to support Fedora 9, it was not finalized in time; consequently, Livna and other repositories continued supplying packages for that Fedora version. The integration process concluded fully on November 3, 2008.
Livna
The "Livna" repository—its name being an ananym of "Anvil"—was managed by French developer Damien Nadé. Even after its discontinuation in favor of RPM Fusion, Livna continued hosting libdvdcss because of ongoing copyright issues.
Dribble
Dribble specialized in multimedia applications, games, and emulators that were unavailable in either Fedora or Livna due to more stringent policies. It also encompassed a variety of other software categories.
Freshrpms
Initially created in 2000 by Matthias Saou for his own use, Freshrpms grew into a prominent third-party repository offering additional software packages compatible with Fedora Linux.