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Fedora 9 Sulphur Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Fedora on 13 May 2008 at 03:12 PM EDT. Add A Comment

For the Fedora users out there, Red Hat has this morning announced the release of Fedora 9, which has been codenamed Sulphur. Fedora 9 features KDE 4.0, GNOME 2.22, NetworkManager 0.7, PackageKit integration, install-time encryption support through Anaconda, EXT4, OpenOffice.org 2.4, Upstart replacing the /sbin/init daemon, and all of this is backed by the brand-new Linux 2.6.25 kernel. The release notes for Fedora 9 can be read here and the mailing list announcement here.

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