A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha
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The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider
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' J& B1 u1 Z2 N4 imajority of systems, providing both an opportunity to get a look at
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opportunity to provide feedback and bug reports to help ensure that the
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Some highlights of Fedora 9 Alpha:
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* GNOME 2.21 Development Release
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* KDE 4.0
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* Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
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* PackageKit
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* Kernel 2.6.24
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And numerous other improvements and enhancements.
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Getting it:
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. x- C L4 ]+ C- I4 oThe Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and
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via bittorrent.
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4 m) E% G3 ]: x% KFor direct http access to a local mirror:
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& h( m& }' a1 }, xFor a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols
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they support:
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http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9-Alpha/
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More Information:
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For more information regarding the Alpha release, please visit the
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release notes page:
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