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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. Encrypted root support in anaconda. by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 5, Informative

    That right there is the NUMBER ONE reason to get it if you have a laptop. It's been a long time coming and it is sorely missed.
    Now you too can reap the benefits of transparent encryption enforced at boot on your portable device, wrapped up in a package that is easy to set up.

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    1. Re:Encrypted root support in anaconda. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      It's been trivial to create encrypted partitions in Debian for quite some time. The option has been part of the installation process since Etch. Debian also has the big advantage that it's not Suse.

  3. Re:Wireless by 1_brown_mouse · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Is this a deliberate naming convention? by rudlavibizon · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sulfur doesn't smell like rotten eggs, hydrogen-sulfide does

  5. Re:I know it's nice to be on the bleeding edge... by cbart387 · · Score: 4, Informative

    For me the quicker starting/stopping of X sounds nice (provided by google since Fedora's server is overloaded right now). An interest of mine is in Operations Research and I typically turn off X when running simulations to remove some of the variability. It'd be nice to have a quicker response from X. I'm not sure if that's on everyone's list though ...

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  6. 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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  7. Re:filesystems by businessnerd · · Score: 2, Informative

    Generally, xfs and others like reiser are supported by default, but you have to "unlock" them at install time. To do this, when you first boot up the install disk, instead of just hitting Enter to launch that graphical installer (anaconda) you have to type in "linux xfs" or insert another fs of choice in the place of xfs. Not sure why they do this, but it is nice to know that it is available "out of the box".

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  8. Re:Compaq DL380 with Raid by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would you use Fedora for a production server?
    Fedora has too short of a supported life for a server. I would recomend CentOS if you want a Red Hat like server install.

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  9. That's way below what they expect to perform well. by jensend · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been trying different Linux releases since 6 or 7
    Presumably you mean different Fedora releases since Fedora 6 or 7?

    You'll note that their target machine for X11 2d desktop performance is a 1.7GHz Pentium M with a Radeon 7500, which they say is "not fast and therefore a good target for tuning." I miss the days when you could expect- out of the box- to get good desktop performance on your 400MHz Pentium II and have a ~1.5GB install footprint (or less if you bothered deselecting stuff you didn't need on install). Now endless tweaking and tuning and putzing with stuff is required to get poor (rather than abysmal) performance on something 2-3 times that fast using 2-3 times the space. There's really been about as much proportional bloat in Linux distros since the RH 6.x days as there has been in corresponding Windows versions up to Vista.

  10. 9? Sulfur? by bmo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought Fluorine was 9. Sulfur is 16, last I checked.

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