Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

BrianGKUAC writes "Fedora 9 has been released as of 10 AM Eastern Time this morning. Release notes can be found here. Some of the more interesting new features include a new package management system, which can be used as an alternative to pup and pirut, known as PackageKit. This release also includes GNOME 2.22 and/or KDE 4.0.3, and Firefox 3 beta 5. Overall, there are a lot of improvements worth looking at, and the Bittorrent seeds are already feeding the release fairly effectively."

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Hope my issues with Fedora are solved

[bogaboga]

I will recount my I had trouble with the last Fedora Distro.

I bought myself a second hand Samsung ML-2510 printer that Samsung touted as "supported" under some Linux kernel version and later.

I connect power cables, power it up and connect it via USB expecting some prompt but nothing! I check....nothing!

I attempt to use the included driver CD-ROM, so I load it, and nothing happens. This is as disturbing as it is amazing in this USB 2.0 world. Not being timid, I fire up the terminal, navigate to /mnt as suggested by Samsung and I see nothing in there! I note that Samsung might have made a mistake so I navigate to the actual device and there, I see some files. I follow the directions as if I were at /mnt earlier suggested by Samsung and the system fires up some "error 2. Unexpected end of command."

Not really being a Linux newbie, I fix that error and the system then complains of missing SANE, Ghostscript and CUPS packages. I install two of them and on trying again, the system complains of a wrong SANE version.

I then do what I will call an update via YUM to install the latest SANE then I try again. I succeed this time but my printer, which is still powered and connected, cannot be found on any usb ports! Restarting the system did not help at all!

What bothers me are the Linux zealots who think Fedora and Linux are doing wonders in today's world. If I were working on that "other" platform, I would not need any software downloads whatsoever, and the printer would be churning out print work in less than 12 seconds.

Guys, it's [still] pathetic in the Linux world and progress is very very slow. As usual, people are going to blame the distro in question as if that helps mitigate the problem Linux faces.

My verdict on the released Fedora will be out by the end of this week. I hope I will be [pleasantly] surprised.

FedoraSoft

[Frosty Piss]

It's been a long time since I've heard any excitment about Fedora. The Linux buzz has moved on while RedHat lives in it's own little world, no longer cutting edge and as stuffy as Microsoft...