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Fedora 9 Alpha Preview

On this Super Tuesday here in the United States, Red Hat has this morning released the first and only alpha release for Fedora 9. This ninth Fedora release, which has been codenamed Sulphur, will ship in April and go head-to-head against Ubuntu 8.04 LTS “Hardy Heron”, but what features can one expect in this forthcoming release?

Among the features being worked on are encrypted file-system support, updating the KDE spin to KDE 4.0, PackageKit integration, and switching to upstart initialization. In this article, we are taking a brief look at Fedora 9 Alpha and the features planned for Fedora 9.

EXT4 has been a work in progress for some time now, and further EXT4 work is landing in the Linux 2.6.25 kernel. Fedora 9 will integrate support for the EXT4 file-system and will be integrated into Red Hat’s Anaconda installer for new installations or converting an EXT3 file-system to EXT4

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Interview with outgoing Fedora Project Leader

Ran across this link on Linux.com.  It is a video interview with Max Spevack the outgoing Fedora Project leader.  Thanks Max for all you did and we wish you the best.

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