Submitted by “It’s been almost two months since Fedora 9 Alpha was released, which we subsequently previewed. Now with the release of Fedora 9 just being 35 days out, Red Hat has pushed out the beta release of Fedora 9 (codenamed Sulphur) with many more features implemented and ready to be tested. We have taken the time to explore the features of Fedora 9 and the progress that has been made.”
She/he made some screenies and rotated the release notes a bit. Nothing if the X-Server starts really faster. Maybe she/he should have compared it with F8.
http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.p…
bit late posting these shots..
I don’t know why these people go to the trouble of tediously taking all these screenshots for each and every alpha, beta or RC. For one thing, Gnome hasn’t changed all that much since version 2.x emerged so when you compare say Fedora 6 with Fedora 9 alpha, all you’re really comparing, apparently, are default desktop themes. While improvements to Gnome have been slow but steady, it would be more helpful to potential users to compare screenshots that clearly indicate the improvement (i.e., policykit in Gnome 2.22 or its newly activated compositing effects.) Just throwing out a bunch of screenshots starting with boot up and going through the menus to shutdown isn’t very helpful, unless you consider gratuitous eye candy helpful. That rant aside, it looks as though Fedora 9 is shaping up to be a great release! I’ll be anxious to see how it compares to SUSE’s upcoming 11 release as well as the much ballyhooed ‘Buntu 8.04 LTS.
These are shots of the Beta that was just released