5 Reasons to Love Fedora 9
The final release of Fedora 9 has been delayed by two weeks, so I thought I’d take this chance to look at what you can expect from Fedora 9 and why you should be excited!
New Desktops
Fedora 9 ships with GNOME 2.22 and KDE 4.03 by default, and while KDE 4.0x has received a lot of attention and buzz in the free software world, this GNOME release is also very exciting.
Softpedia called it “A truly amazing desktop!”, and with features like Cheese, the new international clock and integrated window compositing they could be right. One significant feature that has appeared in this release that has come from active Fedora developer Alexander Larsson is the improved file management abilities provided by GVFS, allowing the queuing of file transfers and increased resilience to failures. Also new in GNOME for Fedora 9 is integration of support for the X RandR extension: this allows a user to do many things, including drag and drop configuration of multi-head monitor set-ups. This particular feature landed too late to make it upstream for the 2.22 release, but it will be included in the next up-stream release; it has already been taken up by other distributions too, so great work Søren! If this feature interests you, check out this cool video on John Palmieri’s blog that shows it in action.
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