Fedora 9 release!

Announced the release of a new version of the operating system, Fedora Linux 9. This event, I waited a month. I’ll check on the Fedora community tracker for a new version and start downloading!

The most important changes are:

Desktop:

* GNOME 2.22 with the Cheese video capture and editing utility, improved support for network file systems, support for the Google online calendar;
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* KDE 4.0.3, Xfce 4.4.2, Openoffice.org 2.4;

* LiveUSB release for download from Flash media. A utility for fast conversion of a LiveCD image into a LiveUSB suitable for working with USB Flash: "./livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 1200 / path / to / iso / path / to / stick";

* Improved package management tool PackageKit, replacing Pirut. The main goal of the PackageKit project is to create a single, unified shell for installing and updating packages for all Linux distributions. PackageKit uses standard tools for package management - yum, apt, conary, box, alpm, smart, pisi, zypp, etc. Formally, PackageKit is an abstract layer for D-Bus, which allows the user to manage packages through an API independent of the distribution kit and the system architecture;

* Network Manager NetworkManager is now able to configure connections to CDMA and GSM networks, can create ad-hoc Wi-Fi access points;

* Unified spell check dictionary;

* From the interface of the installation of multimedia codecs Codeina (CodecBuddy) removed links to paid Windows Media, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 codecs developed by Fluendo. The list contains only a free MP3 codec;

* Firefox 3 beta 5 with support for native GTK;

* TeTeX package replaced with TeXLive.

System:

* Ext4 file system (experimental support);

* Open Source implementation of Java OpenJDK 6, IcedTea is no longer supplied;

* Anaconda installer improvements:

Ability to resize ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions;

Creating and using encrypted partitions during installation;

Improving the mechanisms for working with the yum repository at the installation stage;

Changing the order of operations, partitioning is now done before selecting packages;

A certain amount of code has been moved to the second stage of the installation, which makes it possible to improve support for operations such as restoring a broken package load over the network, editing the list of repositories, using a proxy and choosing a suitable mirror from the list. From the user's point of view, porting the code to the second stage is mostly pleasing to increase the flexibility of error handling, which now does not terminate the installation (for example, when a damaged packet is received);

Possibility of pre-upgrade (pre-upgrade), which only downloads user-installed packages that require upgrades, and not the entire distribution, as it was before;

Instead of kudzu, hardware evaluation using HAL and udev is used;

* FreeIPA included in the package to create
a centralized system for identifying users, setting access policies and auditing;

* The initialization system is translated to use Upstart, instead of (SysV) init;

* Kernel 2.6.25.x;

* Kernel crash dumps can be automatically transferred to www.kerneloops.org , to fix bugs;

* Reduced the start and stop time of the X.org server;

* Updated Perl to version 5.10, promises to accelerate its work;

* Expanded the number of livecards delivered (spin-s):

Fedora Live - the main GNOME LiveCD;

Fedora KDE Live is an optional KDE based LiveCD;

Fedora XFCE Live - optional LiveCD based on XFCE 4.4.2;

Fedora Games Live - LiveCD with a selection of gaming applications;

Fedora Developer Live - LiveCD with a selection of software for software developers;

Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) - LiveCD with a selection of software for electronic engineers.

Fedora Game Live - LiveCD with a selection of game programs.

In addition, the Fedora 9 repository of the rpm.livna.org repository, containing multimedia codecs and applications missing from the standard package repositories, was announced. To connect the repository, you need to run: "su -c 'rpm -ivh rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm '".

Attention. Anakonda has an error: when using the Russian-language interface in the installer, the installation program crashes when trying to change the list of default packages. In addition, there are problems with spell checking in some applications (Evolution).