Fedora 9 Alpha

Fedora 9 Alpha

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

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I know we’re a bit behind times at the moment, but I’ve been trialing Fedora 9 Alpha. Looking good so far

Here is the feature list for F9 and its current status

Complete	Name	Summary	Updated
00%	Bluetooth	Ongoing Bluetooth enhancements	2008-01-24
95%	Clock Applet	Improve the support for multiple timezones/locations in the clock applet	2008-01-15
95%	Dictionary Support	Fix the proliferation of dictionaries in Fedora	2008-02-18
70%	Full Virt Kernel Boot	Xen fully virtualized guests will be able to directly boot a kernel and initrd image and pass kernel boot args	2008-02-02
75%	ext4 filesystem	Add ext4 filesystem support	2008-02-07
85%	Encrypted Filesystems	Add built in encrypted file system support	2008-02-01
60%	Fast X start up and shutdown	Increase response time to 1 second from exec to accepting clients	2008-01-24
25%	Fingerprint Authentication	Make fingerprint readers as easy as possible to use for authentication	2008-02-01
90%	Free IPA	Make Identity, Policy and Audit centrally and more easily managed	2008-02-01
70%	gcc4.3	Update Fedora to gcc 4.3	2008-01-24
60%	gdm	Update to new upstream Gnome Desktop Manager (gdm)	2008-02-15
95%	Gvfs	Gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem with backends for things like sftp, ftp, dav, smb, obexftp, etc. It is the replacement/successor of gnome-vfs	2008-02-15
10%	Haskell Support	Provide good support for Haskell development and use, with a high number of quality libraries and tools available	2008-02-02
60%	Input Method Integration	Improve input method integration on the desktop so that input methods can be started, stopped, and switched dynamically.	2008-01-29
99%	jigdo	Provide jigdo support for obtaining Fedora	2008-02-21
45%	K12 Linux	Integrate LTSP from K12LTSP project into Fedora and merge enhancements upstream	2008-01-23
90%	KDE4	Replace KDE3.5 with 4.0 and upgrade modules	2008-02-07
60%	More NetworkManager	Expand the situations in which NetworkManager can be used and make it more robust	2008-02-11
76%	PackageKit	Provide alternative package management system	2008-02-01
75%	Partition Resizing	Partition resizing at install time	2008-02-01
30%	perl5.10	Update perl in Fedora 9 to 5.10.0	2008-02-04
80%	Pre Upgrade	Allow users to depsolve and download only the pkgs they need to upgrade their distro while using the older version	2008-02-01
82%	Presto	Add Yum support for deltarpms	2008-02-06
50%	Randr Support	Use the capabilities offered by the Xrandr X extension throughout the desktop	2008-02-15
70%	Second State Install Source	Move install selection to second stage of installer	2008-01-23
100%	Swfdec	Use Swfdec for flash support	2008-02-15
95%	TeXLive	Replace teTeX with TeXLive	2008-01-28
40%	Update X Server	Update X server to at least version 1.5	2007-11-19
70%	Upstart	Replacement for SysVinit that allows service management and event-driven initialization	2008-01-16
80%	Virtual Authentication	Extend remote authentication to use Kerberos and PAM	2008-02-01
80%	Virtual Manager PolicyKit	Enable virt-manager to run as a unpriveledged user	2008-02-01
25%	Virtual Storage	Add the ability to list, create and delete storage volumes from a remote host using libvirt	2008-01-24
30%	Xen paravirt_ops	Replacing the current forward-ported XenSource code on kernel-xen by a paravirt_ops based implementation, including dom0 suppor	2008-01-31