The beta version of Fedora 9 has been released. It comes with GNOME 2.22, KDE 4.0.2, Firefox 3.0 beta 5, PackageKit, Kernel 2.6.25-rc5, and much more. "The Beta release is the point at which we really want and need the wider community's help with testing. Beta is a point of much greater stability in Fedora's development branch, but some fixes continue to occur to improve usability, performance, and stability."
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Member since:2005-07-06
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
Member since:2005-07-15
Member since:
2005-07-06
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.