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Fedora 9 "Sulphur" Alpha Released

Posted by kdawson on from the they-really-spell-it-that-way dept.

JonRob writes "The first development snapshot of Fedora 9 (Sulphur) has been released, providing both a KDE and a GNOME live CD. This is the first of three test releases before the final version of Fedora 9 this April. The alpha features many changes including KDE 4 by default, GNOME 2.21.4, support for creation of encrypted partitions and for resizing EXT2/EXT3/NTFS partitions during install, speed improvements to X, the Linux 2.6.24 kernel, and much more."

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  1. The OS of the FUTURE!!! by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fedora 9: Sulphur Alpha
    Isn't this a new show on the SciFi channel?

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  2. it smells like sulphur by Reverend528 · · Score: 4, Funny

    of course, that's a sign that there are lots of daemons.

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