Fedora Jam KDE Live is an easy-to-use, free and open source GNU/Linux distribution, a spin (remix) of the widely used Fedora operating system tailored specifically for musicians and audio enthusiasts, allowing them to easily produce digital music.
Distributed as 32 and 64-bit Live DVDs
Fedora Jam KDE Live CD is distributed as two Live DVD ISO images, offering complete support for the 64-bit, as well as the 32-bit architectures. It can be installed on a local or external drive, or used directly from the live media.
Boot options à la Fedora Linux
Being derived from Fedora, the distro offers a boot menu that it identical in look and functionality with the one of the official Fedora Live DVDs. It allows users to try the operating system without installing it (live mode), as well as to test the RAM or boot an existing OS from the local disk.
Uses the beautiful KDE desktop environment
The distribution uses the beautiful KDE desktop environment, which features a traditional and familiar layout, comprised of a taskbar (panel) located on the bottom edge of the screen, as well as a Desktop Folder widget on the desktop.
Comes pre-loaded with a wide range of music-related apps
The operating system contains various open source audio creation applications, such as Audacity, Ardour, Frescobaldi, Musescore, and Qtractor, as well as the PulseAudio, ALSA and Jack sound servers. The latest LV2/LADSPA plugins are also included.
Among other open source applications that are included in Fedora Jam KDE Live CD, we can mention the Mozilla Thunderbird email and news client, Internet DJ Console graphical Shoutcast and Icecast client, Mozilla Firefox web browser, the entire Calligra office suite, Sieve mail filtering scripts editor, as well as all the standard KDE applications.