A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha
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: a% K' _: M! a% p4 kThe Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider
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community to become involved with the testing of Rawhide: representing
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next release is as good as possible.
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- ]) ^ j* B+ k7 U. l; WSome highlights of Fedora 9 Alpha:
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( c, t2 R9 Y* J2 ?' D* GNOME 2.21 Development Release
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* KDE 4.0
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* Firefox 3 Beta 2
9 ]" _) n) J2 v2 l' q5 K, E) u- m* Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
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* Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems
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* PackageKit
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And numerous other improvements and enhancements.
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1 X$ ?' ~6 M; P/ j( Y3 pGetting it:
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5 U `! n# h8 y# c' Z5 d) NThe Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and
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For direct http access to a local mirror:
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) ^) A) d u7 s/ w* m0 cFor a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols
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4 }. F( ?' Y# VFor bittorrent:
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More Information:
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+ j4 b9 l# o+ F2 B1 d7 ZFor more information regarding the Alpha release, please visit the
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes
