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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: What software is missing in the Fedora repository?
From:       Giuseppe Fuggiano <giuseppe.fuggiano () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-05-21 7:23:08
Message-ID: 4A15015C.60403 () gmail ! com
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Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am doing a quick survey for software that you use on a regular basis
> that is not available via the Fedora repository. Software that you
> suggest should be free and open source, free of patent and other legal
> issues.
> 
> Tell me the home page of the software and give me a brief description on
> what it does.  Bonus points if you can see in Google for "software-name
> fedora package review" to figure it if it is already in the Fedora
> package review queue. If you know of RPM packages in other distributions
> for the software your are suggesting, that information is useful as well.

Name: OpenAFS

Home page:  http://www.openafs.org/

Description:
AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon 
University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc 
Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server 
architecture for federated file sharing and replicated read-only content 
distribution, providing location independence, scalability, security, 
and transparent migration capabilities. AFS is available for a broad 
range of heterogeneous systems including UNIX, Linux, MacOS X, and 
Microsoft Windows.

Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System

RPMs:  http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=openafs

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