Jesse Keating has announced the availability of the beta release of
Fedora 9. Highlights: "GNOME2.22, with new features like a helpful world time clock, better filesystem performance, security improvements, power management at thelogin screen, the ability to dynamically configure displays, betterBluetooth integration; KDE 4.0.2, which includes a brand new desktopand panel with many new concepts; Firefox 3 Beta 5 featuring a nativelook and feel; support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitionsduring install; support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems; PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solutionwith a yum backend; kernel 2.6.25-rc5." Read the complete
release announcement for more details. The installation DVD and live CD images are available for download from Fedora
download mirrors or
via BitTorrent; quick links to the desktop live CDs for i386 and x86_64 architectures:
Fedora-9-Beta-Live-i686.iso (696MB,
SHA1,
torrent),
Fedora-9-Beta-Live-x86_64.iso (708MB,
SHA1,
torrent).
