Fedora 9 Beta

Jesse Keating has announced the availability of the beta release of Fedora 9. Highlights: "GNOME 2.22, with new features like a helpful world time clock, better file system performance, security improvements, power management at the login screen, the ability to dynamically configure displays, better Bluetooth integration; KDE 4.0.2, which includes a brand new desktop and panel with many new concepts; Firefox 3 Beta 5 featuring a native look and feel; support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install; support for creating and installing to encrypted file systems; PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solution with a yum backend; kernel 2.6.25-rc5." Read the complete release announcement for more details. The installation DVD and live CD images are available for download from Fedora download mirrors or via BitTorrent; quick links to the desktop live CDs for i386 and x86_64 architectures: Fedora-9-Beta-Live-i686.iso (696MB, SHA1, torrent), Fedora-9-Beta-Live-x86_64.iso (708MB, SHA1, torrent).