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Fedora 9 Sulphur Released!

get.fedoraproject.org — KDE4, persistent USB key support, updated packages, FreeIPA support are just a few of the major changes in this release. Get it while its hot!

Who dugg this? Made popular May 13, 2008

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  • doDugg, on 05/13/2008, -1/+31Work perfectly. My First Fedora 9 Screenshot (with Fluxbox) :
    http://screenshot.planet-libre.org/albums/Fluxbox/ ...
  • WebSmith, on 05/13/2008, -1/+25I've been running the preview of Fedora 9 on several machines (including my desktop and MacBook Pro laptop), and it's been rock solid. I've been running the bleeding edge Red Hat/Fedora releases since RH 4.2, and this is by far the best release I have ever seen.
  • mooninite, on 05/13/2008, -1/+21What??????

    1) Go to adobe.com
    2) Click on Adobe Flash 9 RPM.
    3) Go to youtube.com

    Are you THAT incompetent? You don't get FLASH out of the box with Windows. Good lord.
  • mmcgrath, on 05/13/2008, -0/+18Side note to Nvidia: Thanks for doing a half assed job supporting Linux. You make your money from hardware, not software. Open that crap up!
  • ralph123, on 05/13/2008, -0/+19Well, as a fellow ubuntu user I can only say that idiots like you are making me ashamed for using this fine distro.

    Comparing synaptic (which is a graphical frontend to apt) with RPM (which is a package format like deb) is just so incredibly stupid it defies believe.
  • mooninite, on 05/13/2008, -1/+17You have no idea what you are talking about.

    Synaptic is a front end to DEB packages. DEB and RPM packages are similar in practice.

    RPM has similar front ends. Yum is one. PackageKit (big feature in F9) is another. The days of "RPM hell" have LONG been over.

    Good lord I hate people.
  • gregdek, on 05/13/2008, -0/+17If you're running F7 or F8, give the new Preupgrade feature a try. No downloading ISOs, no downtime for your box. Just run preupgrade which will download all of the new packages and anaconda in the background, and then you'll be ready to reinstall. Check the Fedora Planet or google "fedora preupgrade" for more info.
  • Elvaanish, on 05/13/2008, -0/+12KDE 4 wasnt really ment to be your main desktop enviroment, stick with 3.5 til 4.1 comes out. 4.0 is kind of a pseudo beta, so its going to be lacking on any distro.
  • Mechanicat, on 05/13/2008, -2/+18Why did they call it sulphur?
  • calcium20, on 05/13/2008, -1/+12google is your friend
    http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs24/f/2008/002/6/2/Pep ...
  • joebaloney, on 05/13/2008, -4/+16Hopefully KDE4 is more usable than in Ubuntu 8.04.
  • rahulsundaram, on 05/13/2008, -0/+10http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Names
  • inactive, on 05/13/2008, -2/+10fluxbox is a gem
  • 4DFX, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7Try both and decide what works best for you.
  • closer9, on 05/13/2008, -0/+11Good luck getting hardware video working properly if you have a Nvidia card. Fedora 9 uses a brand new version of Xorg and Nvidia doesnt have drivers out for it yet.

    To get it kinda working, you need to downgrade your Xorg RPM to the Fedora 8 version.
  • openguru, on 05/13/2008, -0/+8Your desktop wallpaper is nice. Can you please share it with me ?
  • crownedgriffin, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7Never fear. My FiOS is now working on the torrent. Upload speeds are already skyrocketing.
  • xenocoder, on 05/13/2008, -3/+11Very nice, trying all the major releases but have to say this blows the brown right out of the water... Yum seems quicker
  • Blafhert, on 05/13/2008, -2/+9It took some time, but download rates are OK now.

    Dig me down.
  • thecodingstudio, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Screenshots by TCS
    http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/sc ...
  • rahulsundaram, on 05/13/2008, -2/+7Yep. Fedora look and feel out of the box is way nicer. Yum performance is remarkably better.
  • lyzz, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5It does have the 2.6.25 kernel which does have the ath5k driver. Try the live cd out; it *should* work.
  • Raphyy, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Can anyone link me to the default fedora 9 wallpaper? It looks so awesome
  • joelav22, on 05/13/2008, -1/+9Does anyone know if it FULLY supports wifi (i.e. WEP and WPA without supplicants) out of the box on Atheros wireless chipsets? Ubuntu still sucks at that.
  • mmcgrath, on 05/13/2008, -1/+6That is on purpose and makes a statement. Perhaps Fedora isn't the right Distro for you or, alternatively, check out some of the 3rd party addons.
  • rahulsundaram, on 05/13/2008, -1/+5Actually Fedora repository has synaptic too. So the frontends can be just the same.

    # yum info synaptic
    Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
    Available Packages
    Name : synaptic
    Arch : i386
    Version : 0.57.2
    Release : 16.fc9
    Size : 1.6 M
    Repo : fedora
    Summary : Graphical frontend for APT package manager.
    URL : http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/
    License : GPLv2+
    Description: Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It
    : provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with
    : a GUI front-end based on Gtk+


    #
  • crownedgriffin, on 05/13/2008, -1/+5http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/sc ...
  • rahulsundaram, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Pretty good I would say ;-)
  • init100, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Are you saying that wpa_supplicant doesn't count as a full implementation? Why not?
  • mojoe176, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5I'm downloading the iso right now. I must say I am very excited to take a crack at the new fedora, i have not used fedora since F5. Should be loads of fun!
  • greydonkey, on 05/13/2008, -1/+5The correct spelling is Sulphur.
    The repellent viral infection that is 'us-en' should be banned.
  • skyshock1, on 05/13/2008, -3/+7Smells bad?
  • king_aaronj, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5who cares? It's just a project name. Why would Microsoft name a project "Longhorn"?
  • greydonkey, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Ignorance is bliss.
  • The3rdjj, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5the direct download is faster then torrent, for me at least.
  • king_aaronj, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5why do you diss the penguin?
  • FapCommander, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4They didn't spell it wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur#Spelling_and_e ...
  • LegendX, on 05/13/2008, -1/+6hmm Ubuntu or Fedora...which to choose...
  • MacEnvy, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Yep, I'm currently reading 728 seeds and 5453 peers. Saturating my download bandwidth, actually. Not too shabby.
  • utore, on 05/13/2008, -2/+7Downloading the iso now to run in vbox? How does it look so far?
  • init100, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Thank you for a reasonable response. It isn't every day that I read comments from Ubuntu users that aren't totally dissing everything else than their beloved Ubuntu. They are usually like "Fedora sucks because it isn't Ubuntu", or "Anyone still uses Fedora? I thought that everyone had moved to Ubuntu. Ubuntu FTW!", not to mention the RPM-related "RPM = dependency hell", or the apples-to-oranges comparison "Synaptic/Apt is much better than RPM".
  • mooninite, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3A nVidia rep stated that they will release a version that works with the beta X.org server, but there has been no mention of an ETA for the actual driver. Hopefully it will surface in a month or two. I'll be on Fedora 8 until then. :(
  • radicalfix, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3I tried both before, I must say that I love Fedora more, just no reason.
  • init100, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3"What i NEVER understand: why should it be "legal" to download certain codecs manually and "illegal" if the same thing was done automatically?"

    There is no difference in legality. The difference is that if it would be done automatically, Red Hat would carry a legal liability. But since it requires manual setup of third-party repositories, Red Hat is in the clear and the liability is with the user.

    This is primarily because of software patents. Red Hat is based in the US, which has them, and thus must protect itself from liability. Users in the US, and countries with similar laws, can choose to either abstain from getting the legally questionable packages, or commit patent infringement and get them anyway. Users in other countries can legally install those packages and do not have to care about silly US laws.
  • The3rdjj, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3The penguin will eat your soul
  • ryanlerch, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F9Themes/Wav ...
  • Shootfast, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Yeah but if everyone does that, it rapes the server. If everyone torrents, it's just as quick and saves bandwidth
  • skyshock1, on 05/13/2008, -1/+4KDE 4.0 = busted. Use 3.5.*
  • inactive, on 05/13/2008, -2/+5I have never had a good experience with fedora when compared to any other distrobution. My first experience, fedora kept changing every port for every server type application for no reason. the next version would randomly like and dislike hardware. Then i gave Gentoo a shot and i will never move to anything else
  • inactive, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Did you wait in line at 2am in front of an Apple store?
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