Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Is Out

Fedora 9 has officially released, I plan to post a Dell XPS M1330 install (upgrade possibly) guide shortly.

http://fedoraproject.org/

Some highlights in this release:

• PackageKit replaces pirut as the package management frontend to yum. PackageKit's goal is to provide a standardized interface for installing and updating packages, abstracting the user from the actual (yum, apt, etc...) software used by the system
  
• NetworkManager improvements (it's also configured to start by default, which wasn't the case in F8) such as Ad-Hoc networks (form a wireless network with other nearby wireless clients) and support for PolicyKit
  
• Gnome 2.22, which uses the new Gnome Display Manager, rather than gdm
  
• KDE Desktop 4.03 with the promise that version 4.1 will be available via the normal update repo later this year when it is release upstream
  
• Firefox 3 (well, it's really Firefox 3 beta5)
  
• OpenJDK6 as the default Java
  
• Improved speeds for startup and shutdown of X (the project claims approx 1 second for each)
  
• Drive encryption and ext4 file system support