A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha
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release of Fedora 9 happened!
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( k( F. {5 ^3 GThe 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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a sanitised snapshot of Fedora's development branch, which sees rapid
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next release is as good as possible.
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" g9 C8 C+ x' D+ v2 u) K1 HSome highlights of Fedora 9 Alpha:
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* GNOME 2.21 Development Release
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* Firefox 3 Beta 2
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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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& f) Y" h( z% I7 j1 Y4 Y0 U" O `Getting it:
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* N2 G( e# c0 E: q$ o: wThe Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and
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+ L4 \5 h y8 i9 ]# H- |For direct http access to a local mirror:
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a3 B1 y! h4 t2 x9 bFor 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/& e* }) w- ~, I/ o, `$ B! f- v2 K
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For bittorrent:
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$ r; q9 ^! i4 R: {! UMore Information:
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+ {& }& @7 Q8 S( ]) d% i* q4 X; cFor more information regarding the Alpha release, please visit the
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release notes page:
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes
