[DRAFT] F9 Beta release announcement

[Paul W. Frields]

A couple additions:

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 21:49 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Jesse, look this over and correct as needed.
> 
> = = = = =
> 
> Ah, spring... when a young penguin's fancy lightly turns to thoughts
> of... Beta testing!  Yes, spring has sprung, and so has the Beta release
> of Fedora 9!
> 
> The Beta release is the point at which we really want and need the wider
> community's help with testing.  Beta is a point of much greater
> stability in Fedora's development branch, but some fixes continue to
> occur to improve usability, performance, and stability.  This release is
> great for early adopters and Linux enthusiasts!  The Fedora 9 Beta boots
> on the majority of systems, and gives you an idea of how the final
> Fedora 9 will look and feel.  Most importantly, we absolutely need
> community assistance to check features and provide feedback and bug
> reports, to help ensure that Fedora 9 is our best release ever.
> 
> Some highlights of Fedora 9 Beta:
> 
>  * 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, DVD and on-air and satellite digital TV support,
> YouTube searching, improved podcast support, and many other enhancements
>  * KDE 4.0.2, which includes a brand new desktop and panel with many new
> concepts, integrated desktop search, a brand new visual style called
> Oxygen, a new multimedia API called Phonon, and a new hardware
> integration framework called Solid -- all integrated by Fedora's KDE SIG
>  * Firefox 3 Beta 5, featuring a native look and feel, desktop
> integration, the new Places that replaces bookmarks, and a reworked
> address bar
>  * Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
>  * Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems

 * Live image improvements and persistence
 * FreeIPA, to help make managing auditing, identity and policy easier

>  * PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solution with a
> complete yum backend, designed to unify different distributions'
> software management with the latest technologies
>  * Kernel 2.6.25-rc5
> 
> And numerous other improvements and enhancements.
> 
> The full release notes are available at:
> http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes 
> 
> Getting it:
> ==========
> 
> The Beta release is available both through our mirroring system and
> via bittorrent.
> 
> For direct http access to a local mirror:
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Beta/ 
> 
> For a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols
> they support:
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9-Beta/ 
> 
> For bittorrent:
> http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ 
> 
> More Information:
> ============
> 
> For more information regarding the Beta release, please visit the
> release notes page:
> http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes 
> 
> 
> 
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