Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alpha Was Released

Linux Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alpha is finally released. It is the first alpha release of Fedora 9 with codenamed Sulphur. An alpha release is similar to what Debian calls testing. An alpha release represents a sanitized snapshot of Fedora's development branch, which sees rapid changes and it will become the next major release. Fedora 9 is available in variety of "spins" of custom boot images for everything from desktop installs to USB devices with improved networking and eyecandy .

This Fedora 9 Alpha release provides users a sneak peek into what to expect in the next major release of Fedora which is tentatively scheduled for late April. Here are some features improvements in Fedora 9. GNOME 2.21, KDE 4.0 as the default KDE desktop, Firefox 3 Beta 2, Anaconda installer improvements which now you can resize the Ext 2, Ext 3, and NTFS partitions among other things.

PackageKit in which this is to Fedora what Synaptic is to Debian based Linux distribution. PackageKit acts as a front end to Yum. The new Fedora 9 is decrease the startup time of X window system. It contains Linux kernel 2.6.24 and Ext 4 filesystem support. In which Ext4 is more scalable and better performing than Ext3.