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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community to become involved with the testing of Rawhide: representing
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majority of systems, providing both an opportunity to get a look at
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what new features will be included in the next release and also an
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opportunity to provide feedback and bug reports to help ensure that the
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, L$ T% z6 A8 `0 k3 d5 ESome 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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* Firefox 3 Beta 2
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* Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
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ating and installing to encrypted filesystems
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* PackageKit
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* Kernel 2.6.24
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3 u9 o' o. g t" v+ gAnd numerous other improvements and enhancements.
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Getting it:
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The Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and
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For direct http access to a local mirror:
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http://download.fedoraproject.or ... eases/test/9-Alpha/
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For a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols
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For bittorrent:
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http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/2 C" ~5 f) |3 c
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For more information regarding the Alpha release, please visit the
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