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Subject:    Re: Fedora 9 Beta Preview
From:       "Paul W. Frields" <stickster () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-03-27 15:35:25
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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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