First alpha version of Fedora 9 (codename Sulphur)

was released last night. "A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha release of Fedora 9 happened!" Among the numerous new technologies, improvements and enhancements found in F9 we can mention:

￭ GNOME 2.21 with GVFS
￭ KDE 4.0
￭ Firefox 3 Beta 2
￭ PackageKit
￭ Kernel 2.6.24
￭ FreeIPA
￭ Fast X

Also, the Anaconda installer received the following improvements:

￭ Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions.
￭ Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems.
￭ Improved Rescue Mode (FirstAidKit).
￭ Allow the user to set the install source during the second stage of installation.
￭ Use libblkid for filesystem probing.

Remember that this is an alpha release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only. Please report bugs to the Fedora Bug Tracker

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Release Schedule:

5 Feburary 2008 - Alpha release
13 March 2008 - Beta release
10 April 2008 - Preview release