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Why should you go For Fedora 9

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fedora 9Why should you go For Fedora 9?

This time their are lots of eye-candy features in Fedora 9 that all are reloded with improvements and major new technologies.

  1. One reason is its NetworkManager 0.7 that provides improved mobile broadband support,it  including GSM and CDMA devices, and now supports multiple devices and ad-hoc networking for sharing connections. It is now enabled by default on installations from DVD, CD, the network, and Live images.
  2. Ext4, the next version of the mature and stable ext3 filesystem is available as a option in this release. Ext4 features better performance, higher storage capacity and several other new features.
  3. PackageKit, a new set of graphical and console tools, with a framework for cross-distribution software management, has replaced Pirut in this release of Fedora. The PackageKit graphical updater is available instead of Pup. Behind PackageKit, the performance of
    yum

    has been significantly improved.

  4.  GNOME 2.22. GNOME now includes a webcam photo and video creation utility called Cheese, improved network filesystem support, a new international clock applet, Google Calendar support and custom email labels in Evolution, a new Remote Desktop Viewer, improved accessibility features, and PolicyKit integration
  5. The completely free and open source Java environment OpenJDK 6 is installed by default
  6. Includes Perl 5.10.0, which features a smaller memory footprint and other improvements
  7. Includes TeXLive to replace the older, unmaintained TeX distribution
  8. Fedora 9 Anaconda Installer Improvements

    9. It support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions.
    Have support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems.
    Improved Rescue Mode (FirstAidKit).
    Allow the user to set the install source during the second stage of installation.

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