Almost here, KDE 4, FF3, regular updates like this.
Anyone here use it or know much have any opinions?

Don't know much about it. Anything interesting/new about it?

KDE4, Firefox 3

Though I'm not interested in KDE.

Yes, but what's actually special about them?

Well ff3 uses so much less memory, but thats for Windows too

Feature list: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList

I've been using an old version of Debian for a couple of days and it seems pretty good... well, at least on the Optiplex SX280 I was running it on. I tried it on my home PC (custom build) and it fails miserably. I guess that's the price I pay for using obscure hardware (budget K8T800 VIA motherboard in this thing).

Although, I am still really looking forward to Fedora 9. It seems like it has been planned much better, and they have pretty much met all of their targets for this release. They probably did some reshuffling with their project leader or something because Fedora 6 and 7 were pretty awful from that POV.

I prefer Fedora over Debian for the fact that it is RHEL5 at its heart. And that means security. Fedora could be a taste of things to come in the latest RHEL6. But then I prefer Debian (and even Ubuntu) to the renowned stability.

Ubuntu HH (Hardy Heron) is going to be released in 7 days, also.

Uuh, its just been delayed... my sigs gone back up to 26 days :S

I spoke too soon!

Yea, but we still know that it's gonna be good though. Wasn't Fedora 7 delayed until the end of May last year anyway, so we're still getting it early.

What happened to Fedora 8?!

Because you're seemingly going from 7 to 9

Fedora 8 was released in November, I'm just referring to fedora 7 because it was delayed by just about a month!

It is a shame that they have delayed Fedora again with Fedora 9. This always happens

I'll be checking out Ubuntu next week when it is released. I'll be testing it on my Debian Optiplex SX280... I'll let you know how it goes.

Looks like Dell are already prepared for Fedora 9: http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/fc9/i386/

It was released today.

Let me know what you think!

I won't be trying it as I don't see any compelling reasons to use it instead of Ubuntu - after all Ubuntu is actually a lot faster than Fedora...

http://fedoraproject.org/

I don't know how fast F9 is... but the torrents as fast as to be expected...

And for some reason they've brought back the CD install

Torrenting all 8 of the ones I want...

Excellent! Though when I say Ubuntu is faster I mean because of dpkg and apt-get in place of rpm and yum.

So what's it like then Si?

Bad! It won't install Anaconda keeps crashing.

I'm seeing if LinuxQuestions can help me!


Edit: Textual Installer seems to be working atm, we'll see how that goes

Update: Won't install the "valid" disc is broke.

I'll just FTP the whole lot and network install it ¬¬

Bad start

Turns out it was a bad disc, burnt it onto another and it's working perfectly.

Posting more soon!

Need screenshots

I tried out Fedora 9 yesterday!

My experience was... awful. I couldn't install it.

The situation was that I had permission to use 1 CD only. Knowing that I'd need at least 2 CD's to get a base installation (versus Ubuntu's 1 CD) I decided to download the netinst Internet based installation CD.

Update: Fedora 9 actually required 3 CD's for a standard installation, even without any office and productivity software. This is bad.

Little did I realise how terribly documented this method of installation is. I managed to find a repository and get in to a graphical installation screen where it continued to formatting my hard drive, partitioning it, etc. then brought up an error message to say that it was sorry it can't find any packages and it needs to quit.

I'm taking a couple of CD's in to work today so that I can get the first 2 CD's for a base installation and will let you know how the OS performs compared to Ubuntu 8.04. The system is a Dell Latitude D505 P-M 1.4GHz with 40GB HDD and 256MB RAM. It's also up for sale if you want it for £50.

The whole installation/package management stuff in Fedora 9 is horrible, hopefully theyll get their act together for fedora 10. Put it this way, I've had to reinstall it, just so I could select packages in an "easier" way.