Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> First Look at Sulphur, Fedora 9 - Encryption support, ext4 filesystem,
> kernel 2.6.25 and more!
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> | Fedora brings you the latest version of Perl, 5.10.0, with improvements
> | in the memory consumption area and some other changes. The unmaintained
> | TeX was replaced by TeXLive, which provides a complete TeX system with
> | all the major TeX-related applications, fonts, macro packages, etc.
> |
> | This said, we, here at Softpedia Labs, truly enjoyed the short look we
> | took at this edition of the Fedora Linux distribution, it really
> | impressed us with its new features and you should definitely give it a
> | try. For installation instructions, please follow our step-by-step
> | tutorial.
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> http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-Look-at-Sulphur-Fedora-9-85520.shtml
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> Recent:
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> Fedora 9 - Why it’s so awesome
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> | KDE4
> |
> | Although I do not use the KDE aside from a few choice apps, I think it
> | would be rather rude and inappropriate to neglect the awesome efforts of
> | the Fedora KFE SIG in making Fedora 9 the first major distribution
> | release to feature KDE4
> |
> | As I am not as familiar with this awesomeum as I am others, I will leave
> | the absorption of the full details as an exercise for the reader (note:
> | their release annoucement page is…yes, that’s right…awesome…).
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> http://www.basilgohar.com/blog/2008/05/12/fedora-9-why-its-so-awesome/
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> Fedora 9 - an OS that even the Linux challenged can love
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> | The new KDE look, dubbed Oxygen, is very slick, some might even say
> | beautiful. Fedora is the first major distro to ship with KDE 4 enabled
> | by default, but thankfully KDE 4 does support older applications that
> | haven't yet been ported. Such apps won't be able to take advantage of
> | the new features, but at least you can use them until new versions are
> | released.
> |
> | Fedora 9 also marks the first release under Paul Frields, Fedora project
> | leader at Red Hat, who took over for longtime Fedora maintainer Max
> | Spivak earlier this year. Fedora has also revamped its board slightly
> | making the distro a more community-managed affair. The majority of the
> | Fedora board is now made up of community elected members.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/12/fedora_9/page2.html
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> Fedora 9 Gives Ubuntu a Run For Its Money
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> | After playing with the release candidate for a week or so I’m happy to
> | report that Fedora 9 has made some significant strides and gives Ubuntu
> | a serious run for its money when it comes to user-friendliness.
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> http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/05/fedora-9-gives.html
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> Red Hat lives on the edge with Fedora 9
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> | To address KDE 4 demand--roughly a third of Ubuntu users prefer it to
> | the more widely used GNOME--Ubuntu programmers took a Fedora-like
> | approach. They're working on a KDE 4 version of Hardy Heron, but it
> | doesn't come with the support promised regular Ubuntu.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9942865-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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> Tip of the hat: Fedora 9 officially released
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> | Important architectural features—such as the PulseAudio sound server and
> | the PolicyKit secure privilege escalation system—that were first
> | included in Fedora 8 are now integrated in a more complete and pervasive
> | way.
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I expect to install Fedora 9 onto my laptop as soon as I can. Fedora 8 had
no problem with hardware recognition and installed without a sign of any
kind of trouble, and my wireless connection (using a Zydas chipset) was
recognised straightaway and has performed without a hitch.
Great stuff.
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