Fedora 9 Beta Preview
Paul W. Frields
stickster at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 15:35:25 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 19:43 -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 05:31 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > "X Server 1.4.1 still hasn't yet been released for X.Org 7.3, but Red
> > Hat's Adam Jackson is doing a splendid job with the X.Org 7.4 release
> > management and seeing that the final version will be ready to ship with
> > Fedora 9. X.Org 7.4 / X Server 1.5 contains new input hot-plugging
> > capabilities, the porting of drivers to using the new PCI setup
> > infrastructure (pciaccess), DRI2, and the start of kernel-based
> > mode-setting. The only X.Org video driver that looks like it will be
> > ready to ship with kernel-based mode-setting for Fedora 9 is the
> > xf86-video-intel driver."
> >
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora9_beta&num=1
>
> Good review, but this is a bit inaccurate:
>
> "... Red Hat has pushed out the beta release of Fedora 9
> (codenamed Sulphur) with many more features implemented and
> ready to be tested."
>
> At least, "Red Hat and the Fedora community have ..." would be more
> accurate. But since Red Hat is just a (really big) contributor to
> Fedora, saying Fedora community would be 100% accurate.
John Fontana at NetworkWorld, to whom I spoke yesterday, got it right:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032608-fedora.html
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