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OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19521/Fedora_9_Beta_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:29:13 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Comment by rodrigocc http://osnews.com/thread?306582 http://osnews.com/thread?306582 Shouldn't it be Firefox 3 Beta 4 instead of 5 ? Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rodrigocc) Comments looks like this.. http://osnews.com/thread?306593 http://osnews.com/thread?306593 http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.p... Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lqsh) Comments RE: Comment by rodrigocc http://osnews.com/thread?306597 http://osnews.com/thread?306597 Fedora is tracking the development snapshot on a daily basis that is closer to beta 5 actually. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments Openoffice 3 http://osnews.com/thread?306619 http://osnews.com/thread?306619 Too bad Openoffice 3.0 won't be ready for Fedora 9. Well, there is something to expect from Fedora 10. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pashar) Comments Redhat 9 to Fedora 9 http://osnews.com/thread?306643 http://osnews.com/thread?306643 I think it's cool that just a couple of years ago Fedora was just starting out after the discontinuation of Red Hat 9 and now is itself up to its own version 9. As an end user I think this is one distribution that works well and looks good! Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (thegnome87) Comments Not much new this time http://osnews.com/thread?306648 http://osnews.com/thread?306648 Fedora 8 had a TON of stuff to play with. This one has a couple but still more system improvements like xstartup being faster, ext4, encryp. things i dont really get to "play" with but welcome additions just the same.
Love this distro for tinkering daily. Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bitterman) Comments RE: Redhat 9 to Fedora 9 http://osnews.com/thread?306649 http://osnews.com/thread?306649 I agree with you that it works well and performs well. I am hoping that the rough edges of pulseaudio and the audio applications will be smoother with this release. I am using Fedora 8 on an old Athlon 1 Gig Hz chip and it works well. I have a dual boot of Windows XP on the same box and I only logged into it this year to pay the taxes with Turbo Tax since it has issues with Wine still.

I don't know if anyone has noticed this yet but Firefox 3 picks up the GTK theme correctly so the icons are real Gnome icons and not approximated skins. Nice touch thanks to the Mozilla folks working on the Linux build.Edited 2008-03-25 23:23 UTC Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments RE: Not much new this time http://osnews.com/thread?306651 http://osnews.com/thread?306651 Take a closer look. Fedora 9 integrates quite a lot of new features. You left a number of them:

Things where Red Hat developers are leading include:

* PackageKit - http://packagekit.org - A cross distribution front end for managing software.

* FreeIPA - http://freeipa.org/page/Main_Page. A turn key replacement for Active Directory

* A number of GNOME improvements including GVFS. Fedora 8 already had PolicyKit support that has improved with this release.

* NetworkManager 0.7 with a hell lot of new features and system wide static and wireless network management.

* Live CD persistence support

* Pre Upgrade - A live upgrade solution

* Xen Part virt_ops -

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops

Other than that, there is:

LTSP 5 integration. Probably will include a targeted spin for this.

KDE 4.0.x - Major new revision. A separate KDE spin as before.

Xfce 4.4.2 - Separate spin as part of the release this time.

Firefox 3.0

OpenJDK 6.0

Swfdec, a flash browser plugin

Even more is listed at

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments RE[2]: Redhat 9 to Fedora 9 http://osnews.com/thread?306654 http://osnews.com/thread?306654 buff: as many distros are now using PulseAudio and we've all been testing it and contributing patches, it should be a lot smoother in all upcoming distros (F9, Mandriva 2008 Spring, Ubuntu 8.04 etc) than it was in F8. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments RE[3]: Redhat 9 to Fedora 9 http://osnews.com/thread?306656 http://osnews.com/thread?306656 That is good to know people are polishing pulseaudio. I like the idea but it annoys me when it dies for unknown reasons and it often times makes a lot of static noise when volume goes to zero between songs. It also has conflicts with the Flash plugin too. I get more crashes now using Flash under pulseaudio. I sent Adobe a bug report. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments RE[4]: Redhat 9 to Fedora 9 http://osnews.com/thread?306658 http://osnews.com/thread?306658 In Fedora, you might want to try to update to the 0.9.8 which is rawhide currently that fixes a number of issues. For the flash plugin issue, make sure you follow

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Desktop.htm... Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments RE[2]: Not much new this time http://osnews.com/thread?306703 http://osnews.com/thread?306703 >Swfdec, a flash browser plugin

Until now i have always used gnash. Are there any rationale behind the decision to choose swfdec over gnash? Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pinky) Comments RE[3]: Not much new this time http://osnews.com/thread?306704 http://osnews.com/thread?306704

The player is routinely updated to support the latest features demanded by video players, resulting in most (including Youtube, Google Video, Lulu.tv, AOL video, and CNN video) working at any given time.

I can not think of any other legitimate use for Flash other than watching YouTube videos. LGPL-licensed, and works on FreeBSD and Linux. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sakeniwefu) Comments RE[3]: Not much new this time http://osnews.com/thread?306705 http://osnews.com/thread?306705 Swfdec uses gstreamer which allows you to install additional plugins easily. It is also provides hooks to make this easier for the end user. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments RE[3]: Not much new this time http://osnews.com/thread?306734 http://osnews.com/thread?306734 "Until now i have always used gnash. Are there any rationale behind the decision to choose swfdec over gnash?"

1. swfdec is now included in GNOME (specifically swfdec-gnome).
2. GStreamer-based (though I believe Gnash is also)
3. It has hooks to install missing codecs (via Codeina or Ubuntu's codec installer), which Gnash currently doesn't. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bpepple) Comments KDE .... http://osnews.com/thread?306747 http://osnews.com/thread?306747 Just played with FC9 beta today. The Gnome part seems to run very nice. But KDE 4.02 is not workable with me. If plasma crashes, kde refuses to start .... But I doubt I can blame that on Fedora. I really hope at least KDE 4.03 will be in updates when FC9 final is being released. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (handy) Comments RE[5]: Redhat 9 to Fedora 9 http://osnews.com/thread?306862 http://osnews.com/thread?306862

In Fedora, you might want to try to update to the 0.9.8 which is rawhide currently that fixes a number of issues. For the flash plugin issue, make sure you follow

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Desktop.htm...

any reason why there not using 0.9.9 PulseAudio? Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sabz) Comments New GDM http://osnews.com/thread?306863 http://osnews.com/thread?306863 New GDM im not to keen on but in time im sure i'll get used to it, Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sabz) Comments