Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 25th Mar 2008 16:37 UTC
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[2]: Not much new this time
by pinky on Wed 26th Mar 2008 13:46
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RE[3]: Not much new this time
by sakeniwefu on Wed 26th Mar 2008 14:02
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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.
RE[3]: Not much new this time
by Rahul on Wed 26th Mar 2008 14:17
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RE[3]: Not much new this time
by bpepple on Wed 26th Mar 2008 16:20
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"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.
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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