开发者发行版：Fedora 9 Beta

Fedora项目是一份由Red Hat策划的开放开发项目，它向普通参与者开放并由精英管理者领导，沿着一系列项目目标而前进。Fedora项目的目标是与Linux社区协作，只从开放源码软件来创建一份完整的、通用的操作系统。其开发过程是以公开论坛的形式进行的。项目将按时间计划，每年作两到三次Fedora的发布，并提供一份公开的发布日程表。Red Hat工程组将继续参与Fedora的开发，并且将比以往更多地邀请和鼓励外界的参与。通过采用这样一种更加开放的过程，我们希望能提供一份更加符合自由软件理念并且对开放源码社区更具吸引力的操作系统。

Jesse Keating has announced the availability of the beta release of Fedora 9. Highlights: "GNOME2.22, with new features like a helpful world time clock, better filesystem performance, security improvements, power management at thelogin screen, the ability to dynamically configure displays, betterBluetooth integration; KDE 4.0.2, which includes a brand new desktopand panel with many new concepts; Firefox 3 Beta 5 featuring a nativelook and feel; support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitionsduring install; support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems; PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solutionwith 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).