Fedora Design Suite Live For Linux

Fedora Design Suite Live is an open source and free operating system based on the latest Fedora technologies and built around the stylish and compelling GNOME desktop environment. Intially developed for the Fedora Design Team, the distribution aims to help artists of all kind to freely express their artistic visions.

It can be downloaded from the dedicated download section (see above) as two Live DVD ISO images of approximately 1.5GB in size, allowing users to deploy them on USB flash drives of 2GB or higher capacity, or burn them onto blank DVD discs.

The most important feature of a Live CD is that users can try the operating system without installing anything on their computers. It is also possible to start an existing OS from the first disk or run a memory diagnostic test.

The Live CD comes with many useful and open source applications, which can be used for multimedia production and publishing. An interesting feature is that all applications are organized into categories, such as Accessories, Games, Graphics, Internet, Office, Programming, Sound & Video, Sundry, System Tools, Utilities, and Other.

Among the pre-installed graphical applications, we can mention GIMP image editor, Inkscape vector graphics editor, Scribus desktop publishing software, Synfig Studio 2D animation software, Phatch batch image processor, Dia diagram creator, Blender 3D animation renderer, Darktable RAW image editor, Entangle tethered shooting utility, and the entire Hugin suite.

Default applications include the FileZilla file transfer client, Mozilla Firefox web browser, Bluefish HTML editor, Empathy instant messenger, LibreOffice office suite, Evolution email and calendar client, Totem video player, Brasero CD/DVD burning software, Cheese webcam viewer, Audacity audio editor, PiTiVi video editor, and Rhythmbox music player.

No matter if you want to create CD sleeves, design websites, build GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) for applications, create desktop backgrounds, flyers and posters, the Fedora Design Suite Live CD is here to help you achieve all this and much more with minimum effort and without having to pay for expensive products.