Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alpha

Izhar Firdaus Follow Support Feb 06, 2008 · 1 min read

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Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alpha is out for developers, early adopters, and those who can't stand to wait.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-February/msg00072.html

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

* Support for resizing ext2,ext3 and NTFS partitions during installation
* Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems
* Faster and more efficient yum dependency resolver
* PackageKit
* FreeIPA, an integrated solution combining Linux, Fedora Directory Server, FreeRADIUS, MIT Kerberos, NTP, DNS and providing web and commandline provisioning and administration tools.
* GNOME 2.21 Development Release
* KDE 4.0
* Firefox 3 'Minefield' (nightly builds)
* Kernel 2.6.24
* ... And Many More~ ...

Rel notes:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes

Test status are being tracked here :
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/9/AlphaTreeTesting

Written by Izhar Firdaus Follow Support

I'm a system architect, data engineer and developer advocate with passion in Free / Open Source software, entrepreneurship, community building, education and martial art. I take enjoyment in bridging and bringing together different FOSS technologies to help businesses and organizations utilize IT infrastructure to aid and optimize their business and organizational process.