"The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of new ISO Re-Spins of Fedora 9.

These Re-Spin ISOs are based on the officially released Fedora 8 installation media and include all updates released as of October 4th, 2008.

The ISO images are available for i386, x86_64 architectures via Jigdo and Torrent starting Tuesday October 7th, 2008.

Go to http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins to get the bits!

DVD Media Only

Due to known problems in comps, this is a DVD Only Re-spin. The CD version would have required all 6 to 7 discs to install."

"Fedora, for those that didn't know, was born out of Red Hat Linux as a way to continue a free community based distribution and keep Red Hat Enterprise for those with deep pockets and data centres. The first release of Fedora was back in 2003 so there's been on average two releases a year since. As I was a Red Hat user back in the day (at University I was using Red Hat 6.0 as a way for me to do my C code at home rather than pulling all nighters on campus) I was happy to continue on with Fedora. Unfortunately the first couple of releases of Fedora weren't to my liking and I parted ways. These days Fedora has matured and is arguably one of the top 5 distributions. It's RPM based (similar to Mandriva and OpenSuse) and has a vocal and passionate community. It's also been ear-marked by me as one of the possible distros to upgrade to, so long as it ticks all the gaming boxes and doesn't play up too much! "

"Just on the heels of the Fedora Project's fifth anniversary, the Beta of Fedora Linux version 10 (code-named Cambridge) is now available:

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

There is also a Beta contest! Test five things in the Beta that are important to you as a user. If you find a bug *and* report it, you get the free attention of a package maintainer on a problem personally important to you!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com

Do your part to make Fedora 10 that much better.

Among the new, fun, and interesting features:

* New NetworkManager with connection sharing
* Improved printer handling
* Remote virtualization and easier virt storage
* Sectool, an auditing and security testing framework
* RPM 4.6, the first big RPM change in several years

... and more ...

* New version of PackageKit for managing software, with more fixes and enhancements (which benefits all distributions)
* New version of PulseAudio (which benefits all distributions)
* Kernel 2.6.27, including better support for WiFi
* Better support for the EFI for Apple Macintosh hardware
* Faster graphical start-up by Plymouth, replacing the venerable RHGB
* Better support for webcams through the hard work in kernel2.6.27 (which benefits all distributions)
* New icon theme "Echo", to be completed with the theme graphic "Solar" in the Fedora 10 release
* Gnome 2.24
* KDE 4.1
* Adding the NetBeans IDE
* Eclipse 3.4
* Automatic installation of multimedia codecs
* Better HDTV support in X.org
* "Sugar" graphical environment (from OLPC) available for use, testing, and development

A more complete list and details of each new cited feature is available:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList

For release information, including common and known bugs, please see our release notes:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Beta/ReleaseNotes "

"Due to needing some more time for new features to mature a bit before we cut our Beta, we've decided to move the Beta release date back to Tuesday Sept 30th.

This move, combined with previous schedule slips has also driven us to extend the rest of the Fedora 10 schedule dates by a week, resulting in a final release date of Tuesday Nov. 25th."

"Work on the Fedora infrastructure has returned to normal at this point. Updates are once again available for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9, our current releases, using the new package signing key we've implemented. To read more about the new package signing key, refer to:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/New_signing_key

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_new_signing_key

In addition, Rawhide has returned to service, as well as our other services such as Fedora Hosted.

As always, our team of system administrators makes incremental improvements constantly. Sometimes these improvements involve temporary outages, and such outages may occur in the future as part of normal operations. At this time, however, we believe Fedora's recovery efforts are complete. To reiterate our previous statement, we have not found any security vulnerabilities in any Fedora software as a result of our efforts.

The security investigation into the intrusion is still in progress. When that investigation is completed, the Fedora Project's intention is to publish a more detailed report on the matter.

We will issue further updates as more information becomes available."