| Fedora项目是一份由Red
Hat策划的开放开发项目，它向普通参与者开放并由精英管理者领导，沿着一系列项目目标而前进。Fedora项目的目标是与Linux社区协作，只从开放
源码软件来创建一份完整的、通用的操作系统。其开发过程是以公开论坛的形式进行的。项目将按时间计划，每年作两到三次Fedora的发布，并提供一份公开
的发布日程表。Red
Hat工程组将继续参与Fedora的开发，并且将比以往更多地邀请和鼓励外界的参与。通过采用这样一种更加开放的过程，我们希望能提供一份更加符合自由
软件理念并且对开放源码社区更具吸引力的操作系统。 Jesse Keating has announced the availability of Fedora 9 Alpha, the first development release of Fedora 9: "A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha release of Fedora 9 happened!" The new release features Linux kernel 2.6.24, support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions in the Anaconda installer, faster X window system; GNOME 2.21 with GVFS and GIO as a replacement for GNOME VFS, KDE 4.0 as the default KDE with compatibility packages to ensure applications not yet ported to KDE 4 will continue to work, Firefox 3 Beta 2 with desktop integration, the new Places replacement for bookmarks and a re-worked address bar, PackageKit - a cross-distribution package management solution with a complete yum backend, and a number of other improvements. See the release announcement and release notes for a detailed list of new features. Download: Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-i686.iso (698MB, SHA1, torrent), Fedora-9-Alpha-Live-x86_64.iso (745MB, SHA1, torrent). KDE live CD/DVD images, as well as the traditional installation media are also available. |
