Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Mar 2008 16:37 UTC
Fedora Core 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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RE: Redhat 9 to Fedora 9
by buff on Tue 25th Mar 2008 23:20 UTC in reply to "Redhat 9 to Fedora 9"
buff
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2005-11-12

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

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RE[2]: Redhat 9 to Fedora 9
by AdamW on Wed 26th Mar 2008 00:43 in reply to "RE: Redhat 9 to Fedora 9"
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2005-07-06

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.

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RE[3]: Redhat 9 to Fedora 9
by buff on Wed 26th Mar 2008 01:12 in reply to "RE[2]: Redhat 9 to Fedora 9"
buff Member since:
2005-11-12

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.

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