Fedora 9 Released: OS Adds Features, Revamped Look, and Portability

Red Hat's Fedora Project released Fedora 9 today, the newest version of its open source operating system.

Fedora 9 adds key new features to the Linux OS including the addition of the KDE 4 desktop environment that defines the look and feel of this OS. Another key feature added is the ability to run the Fedora 9 OS from a USB drive. You can not only boot the OS from a USB drive, but can also add applications and store data to the drive (a true portable OS).

This is the first major release of Fedora to include the KDE 4.x desktop environment and with it comes new features such as desktop panels that integrate desktop search.

Fedora is one of several Linux flavors currently available, with other well known ones including Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora 9 is newest evolution of the Fedora distribution ? we, in fact, took Fedora 7 for a test run last year and were generally impressed with it. We found, however, Ubuntu to offer more promise as an environment for Linux newbies.

Chatter around the Internet so far seems mostly favorable. The Register posted positive comments about it, as did Ars Technica.

You can read more about the full release here and download it from the Fedora Project.

CREDIT - PC World contributor Nino Marchetti

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