2008/3/25, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Ah, spring... when a young penguin's fancy lightly turns to thoughts > of... Beta testing! Yes, spring has sprung, and so has the Beta release > of Fedora 9! > > 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. This release is > great for early adopters and Linux enthusiasts! The Fedora 9 Beta boots > on the majority of systems, and gives you an idea of how the final > Fedora 9 will look and feel. Most importantly, we absolutely need > community assistance to check features and provide feedback and bug > reports, to help ensure that Fedora 9 is our best release ever. > > Some highlights of Fedora 9 Beta: > > * GNOME 2.22, with new features like a helpful world time clock, better > file system performance, security improvements, power management at the > login screen, the ability to dynamically configure displays, better > Bluetooth integration, improved podcast support, and many other > enhancements > * KDE 4.0.2, which includes a brand new desktop and panel with many new > concepts, integrated desktop search, a brand new visual style called > Oxygen, a new multimedia API called Phonon, and a new hardware > integration framework called Solid -- all integrated by Fedora's KDE SIG > * Firefox 3 Beta 5, featuring a native look and feel, desktop > integration, the new Places that replaces bookmarks, and a reworked > address bar i personally don't see the new firefox look and feel as a improvement > * Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install and ext4? wasn't that gonna be in as well? > * Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems > * PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solution with a > complete yum backend, designed to unify different distributions' > software management with the latest technologies This has my attention! could this eventualy replace the yum and apt-get (and ebuild etc) we know today? > * Kernel 2.6.25-rc5 > > And numerous other improvements and enhancements. > > The full release notes are available at: > http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes > > Getting it: > =========== > > The Beta release is available through the following download methods: > * (recommended) BitTorrent, an efficient and easy distributed > file-sharing system > * Jigdo, an alternative system that reduces download size in some > situations, or for people who can't use BitTorrent > * direct download from a mirror location near you > > To download, visit: > http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease > > > More Information: > ================= > > For more information regarding the Beta release, please visit the > release notes page: > http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes For the rest: Congratulations to the entire fedora team + copmmunity on the Fedora 9 beta release! I'm downloading it right now to test it out. I hope i can get my Nvidia drivers working. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
