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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."

4 of 218 comments (clear)

  1. Beta software in a production release? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Why would you bundle beta software (Firefox 3 Beta 5) with a production OS?

    1. Re:Beta software in a production release? by Nos. · · Score: 1, Redundant

      1. Fedora is not a production OS
      2. FF3 is due out in the near future, so F9 will have the current release then, as opposed to the old version 2.

  2. PackageKit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Does not replace yum.

  3. dundant again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "10 AM Eastern Time this morning"

    As opposed to 10 AM Eastern Time this evening?