Hi everybody, Fedora-9 was released today (actually yesterday) at 17:00 local time. Lior Kaplan took the challenge and the isoc mirror is currently pulling the bits (takes time as all mirrors are heavily loaded). When it all ends, we'll have F9 and updates for F9 and F8 (well if he'll manage to squeeze enough bits).
This mirror is now registered as an official public Fedora mirror, limited to clients connecting from Israel (determined through GeoIP). This limitation is because its connection *outside* of Israel is very slow. Meanwhile you can use http://fedoraproject.org, where you can also get a torrent (at least until our mirror finish syncing). [start the download now, so while you continue to read, the bits will be moving] While visiting this front page, you may want to select 'he' for language -- yes we started to push some more Hebrew support into Fedora. Although the release notes were not ready for this deadline, some packages did and also (small) parts of the website. Obviously, this is possible only because most of the translation is already done by our loyal upstream translators -- Thank you all the translators for Mozilla, KDE, GNOME... Thanks to Mark Krapivner I found out that Fedora and Ubuntu have more common packages than the upstream. He sent me translations for system-config-samba and system-config-kickstart which I always considered a Red-Hat/Fedora specific software. This is very good and happily there are many more new packages crossing the lines between distros -- some examples Ubuntu picked from Fedora are NetworkManager and PulseAudio; on the other hand Fedora picked upstart from Ubuntu for Fedora-9. [did I mention your download should be underway by now?] F9 Highlights (brief, since I'm tired): * Anaconda installer can resize NTFS and ext2/3 Let's the install parties begin... * Live-USB OS + user data persistence on the same DOK. - Non-destructive, you can take a used DOK with enough free space, the files remain intact (no partitioning, blah, blah). - The Live-USB can be built even on Windows!! No more excuses: https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator Build it now and put it in your wallet. * X.org 7.4 this means: - External monitor hotplugging - Kernel based modsetting (Intel chipset), flicker free and *fast* switching during boot, vt switching, user switching, etc. * KDE-4.0.3 for us KDE lovers (OK, and GNOME-2.22 for them ;-) * NetworkManager-0.7 ease the pain: - Finally handle static connections as well. Stop fighting between legacy config and NetworkManager. - Backend to read legacy configs (in Fedora /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/....) - Multiple interface handling (so now it can route between your laptop wifi and its lan connection). - Enabled by default on new installs. - GSM/CDMA (cellular modem) support * OpenOffice.org-2.4 Oops, Crap!!! it still have the arabic/hindi digits bug. However the fix should be in the first update (openoffice_org-2.4.0-12.9.fc9) Bugzilla entry to follow: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445953 OK, so it wasn't short, your Live-CD should have finished downloading, NO? Bye, -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 'Open Systems' means no fences. And no fences means no use for Gates. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
