Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha
| From: | Jesse Keating <jkeating-AT-redhat.com>(by way of Jesse Keating <jkeating-AT-redhat.com>) | |
| To: | fedora-announce-list-AT-redhat.com, fedora-devel-announce-AT-redhat.com, fedora-test-list-AT-redhat.com | |
| Subject: | Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha | |
| Date: | Tue, 5 Feb 2008 10:25:25 -0500 | |
| Message-ID: | <20080205102525.4748a9f5@redhat.com> |
A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha release of Fedora 9 happened! The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with the testing of Rawhide: representing a sanitised snapshot of Fedora's development branch, which sees rapid changes and will become the next major release, it should boot on the majority of systems, providing both an opportunity to get a look at what new features will be included in the next release and also an opportunity to provide feedback and bug reports to help ensure that the next release is as good as possible. Some highlights of Fedora 9 Alpha: * GNOME 2.21 Development Release * KDE 4.0 * Firefox 3 Beta 2 * Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install * Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems * PackageKit * Kernel 2.6.24 And numerous other improvements and enhancements. Getting it: ========== The Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and via bittorrent. For direct http access to a local mirror: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releas... For a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols they support: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9-Alpha/ For bittorrent: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ More Information: ============ For more information regarding the Alpha release, please visit the release notes page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
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Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha
Posted Feb 6, 2008 14:38 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]
I like the Faster X work they're doing. I'm curious about xkbcomp and the "Forking xkbcomp is a terrible idea" remark. Does anyone here know what they mean?
Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha
Posted Feb 6, 2008 19:13 UTC (Wed) by ofeeley (guest, #36105) [Link]
Xbcomp is reputed, by its main developer Daniel Stone, to be a slow, horrible mess which needs to be rewritten so that it's part of the server. There are X Developer Summit 2007 slides that talk a bit about it here: http://www.fooishbar.org/talks/xds2007-input.pdf I don't know how much of that proposed work has been done, but the need for it seemed to be confirmed during OLPCs investigations into how long it took to improve boot speed. They found that xkbcomp was sucking up 1.5s due to generating a new map each time, which would then be deleted.
Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha
Posted Feb 7, 2008 4:04 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]
xkbcomp was being forked and run multiple times, each time recomputing a bunch of a data and otherwise wasting time. The work only needs to be done once.