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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:What did they break now? by ThePhilips · · Score: 0, Troll

    RH never made a secret that Fedora is essentially a test bed for their commercial offering RHEL.

    It would sound like rants, yet, the only people I know using Fedora are using it "unwillingly:" because their companies run RHEL, because their partners are using RHEL, because they need need to be compatible to RHEL, etc. I know nobody who uses Fedora because s/he likes it.

    Fedora isn't bad at all. Yet, rough edges of corporate leadership are sticking out all over the place.

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