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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. Re:Wireless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have had no problems with wireless using the ndiswrapper.

    http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

    The switch on the side of my laptop that turns it on and off has caused me more grief for a while than any driver issue. Some of us have wireless cards that have native Linux drivers, but Fedora lacks support for them. For example, my PowerBook has a broadcom. Ubuntu supports it with open drivers out of the box. OpenSUSE is the same way. My main desktop is supported by Madwifi. Fedora lacks support, though you can add it manually (pain in the ass). Ubuntu supports it out of the box, as does OpenSUSE. My ThinkPad has an Intel 3945. Fedora lacks support for it, but you can install it manually (pain in the ass). Ubuntu supports it out of the box, as does OpenSUSE.

    Some of them can be supported via a third party repo (livna) that's incompatibility with the repos that have the software you actually want (rpmforge).

    Would it kill them to have a unsupported repo that contains nothing but drivers? Ie, nVidia, wireless, and fully in sync with the constant kernel updates?

    I don't feel like using a Windows driver on Linux when there is a Linux driver available.