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Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

Posted by timothy on from the well-this-one-isn't-debian-based dept.

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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  1. So by sveard · · Score: 4, Funny

    What smell is that? :p

  2. You forgot the most important feature... by eck06 · · Score: 4, Funny

    - Uses seeding with openssl

  3. Seed, damn you! by bignetbuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    download pegged at 892KBps. An hour to snatch the DVD ISO!

    SEED, you bums! SEED!

    1. Re:Seed, damn you! by Dog-Cow · · Score: 4, Funny

      Some Debian guy removed the seed code so Red Hat would be slower!

  4. Now why did I ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is sure to be a stinker of a release...

    Sorry couldn't resist...

    *waits for -1 mod points*

  5. Marketing 101 by AssTard · · Score: 0, Funny

    Rule 38: Don't nickname your product after something really stinky.

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    Asses are for crapping, not screwing.
    1. Re:Marketing 101 by creepynut · · Score: 5, Funny

      "AssTard", you make an excellent point! Thank you for your input!

    2. Re:Marketing 101 by TBerben · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't you mean 'output'?

  6. Re:Konsole disimproving? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a sysadmin and use KDE all day long... Oh, come on, we're supposed to believe THAT? If you were a REAL sysadmin, you'd use twm at most! And you wouldn't ADMIT to having X11 installed at all! You'd talk about how console mode lets you do everything faster, and how bloated X11 is compared to X10...

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  7. Re:Will not install on Samsung hard disks by Peter+H.S. · · Score: 2, Funny

    The "/" character kills the installation.

    So disappointing yet so simple to have fixed before release. Yeah, too bad no one with a affected Samsung HDD bothered to try one of the release candidates and file a bug report.

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    Regards
  8. Re:Beta software in a production release? by ettlz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny thing though, it never crashes.
    You should tinker with the kernel features more. ;)
  9. Re:Will not install on Samsung hard disks by kriston · · Score: 2, Funny

    I actually did test them.

    Something changed or regressed on the way to the final release.

    Someone said "I thought we fixed that" on IRC when I asked about it.

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    Kriston

  10. Re:Beta software in a production release? by shentino · · Score: 3, Funny

    Firefox...Sulphur... ...Yup, this release is going to bomb

  11. Does YouTube work? by rrohbeck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Remember, YouTube no workee, wifey not happy.
    Or something like that.

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