A couple additions: On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 21:49 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > Jesse, look this over and correct as needed. > > = = = = = > > 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, DVD and on-air and satellite digital TV support, > YouTube searching, 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 > * Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install > * Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems * Live image improvements and persistence * FreeIPA, to help make managing auditing, identity and policy easier > * PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solution with a > complete yum backend, designed to unify different distributions' > software management with the latest technologies > * 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 both through our mirroring system and > via bittorrent. > > For direct http access to a local mirror: > http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/ > > For a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols > they support: > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9-Beta/ > > For bittorrent: > http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ > > More Information: > ============ > > For more information regarding the Beta release, please visit the > release notes page: > http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes > > > -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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