Pungi is a program for making spins of
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, from the release 7 upwards. Pungi is mainly a distribution compose tool. Pungi consists of multiple separate executables backed by a common library.
Origin of name
The name Pungi comes from the instrument used to charm snakes. Anaconda being the software Pungi was manipulating, and anaconda being a snake, led to the referential naming.
The first name, which was suggested by Seth Vidal, was FIST, Fedora Installation
Tool. That name was quickly discarded and replaced with Pungi.[{{Cite web, title=About Pungi — Pungi 4.2.9 documentation, url=https://docs.pagure.org/pungi/about.html#origin-of-name, access-date=2021-07-06, website=docs.pagure.org]
References
External links
Pungi page at Fedora project
Fedora Project
Free software programmed in Python
Software using the GPL license