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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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 9? Sulfur? by bmo · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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