RPM Fusion was announced more than a year ago and is the attempt to merge several of the many existing 3rd party repositories for Fedora (Dribble, Freshrpms,. livna). The idea of the common repository is to enhance the compatibility as well as avoid duplication - in the former time many packages were provided by more than one repository. The aim of the new RPM Fusion is however just the same as it was for the original repos: provide high quality packages of software which cannot be part of Fedora due to licence/patent problems.

There was a lot of development going on in the background, but RPM Fusion wasn’t ready for Fedora 9 unfortunately - there was just too much to do:

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