A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha
% q6 x8 p3 X7 O2 Zrelease of Fedora 9 happened!
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The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider
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8 I0 m4 i6 B6 v$ ia sanitised snapshot of Fedora's development branch, which sees rapid
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opportunity to provide feedback and bug reports to help ensure that the
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Some highlights of Fedora 9 Alpha:
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: {3 d3 D9 N8 m6 d* GNOME 2.21 Development Release
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* Firefox 3 Beta 2
+ Y. r. [- X2 r5 S- X. B! T8 @8 P- s* Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
& u) E2 S W: k) u4 G* Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems
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And numerous other improvements and enhancements.
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Getting it:
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+ ]. I8 V/ _ q& b0 [6 I1 DThe Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and
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via bittorrent.
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o1 p9 E' `7 _1 o, `For direct http access to a local mirror:
% N0 f1 \# S+ t! ` `% i$ @& e2 ahttp://download.fedoraproject.or ... eases/test/9-Alpha/
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$ R& p; z4 ^+ g0 ^+ s( c" TFor a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols
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they support:
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http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9-Alpha/
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For bittorrent:
$ D! Y% _, r0 P# E, T( `% Zhttp://torrent.fedoraproject.org/( a8 d, ?4 I* w) {8 v" \9 [
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More Information:
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For more information regarding the Alpha release, please visit the
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release notes page:
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes
