The Fedora project, backed up by Red Hat, has released Fedora 9, code-named Sulphur. Fedora is one of the biggest Linux distributions available today, and along with Ubuntu, Mandriva and OpenSUSE, the giants of the Linux community. With the latest version, the Fedora project decided to listen more to the users, and design an even broader distribution builder. You can now get Live CD/DVDs on an USB memory stick, and you can create them from Windows. Fedora 9 can be had with both Gnome 2.22, KDE 4.0.3 and with this version you can also choose the Xfce 4.4.2 environment.
The Fedora installer, Anaconda, has been updated so that you can change the size of ext2/3 and NTFS file systems, create and install encrypted partitions and improved rescue mode through FirstAidKit. Fedora 9 also supports ext4, which, among other things, is faster and can store more data than the previous versions of the ext file system.
Fedora 9 comes with Firefox 3 as the default browser, 2.6.25 kernel, OpenOffice.org 2.4, and the packet managers Pirut and pup have been replaced by PackageKit, which will now handle your software, both in the console and graphically. This is just a few of the changes and updates introduced in Fedora 9, the rest can be found in the release notes.
If you want to check out Fedora 9 you can either download a Live CD/DVD/USB image, either through jigdo or torrent, or just take the online tour. A number of spins will also become available later on.
