最近一直在关注fedora9的发布时间，上周四fedora的网站已经显示fedora9的发布倒计时13天了，周五再看的时候突然变成26天了，哎！这次fedora9将增加那么多新功能的，晚几天也是情理中的了，不过本打算在五一假期把我的升级到9的计划就不能现实了。

客观的说fedora发布的速度还是蛮快的，2004年11月8号发布fedora core3，现在都9了，平均不到一年就发布一个新版本，记得2005年春节后专门到武汉的连邦软件买了一套fedora core3，当时的还有CD介质的，一共11张盘，4张cd安装盘、4张源安装盘、1张工具盘、1张故障修复盘、1张dvd安装盘、还有一本安装手册，当时的价格68RMB，感觉比盗版的还划算！自己觉得还有点收藏价值（发现自己还有一张sun中国社区寄给我的open solaris的安装光盘,还在同学机器上试验了一下，光安装就搞了4个小时，BS下）
当时的fedora3默认还不支持ntfs的格式，为此还专门编译了一次内核，然后将所有的过程都记录了下来，结果本咱老师说是简单的选y和n，当时还愤愤不平了好久，现在看来确实是没什么技术含量。现在的fedora8已经默认增加对ntfs的支持，而且开机就自动挂载了，方便了不少。。。。。。fedora9中将增加以下新功能：
1、Bluetooth:Ongoing Bluetooth enhancements

2、Clock Applet:Improve the support for multiple timezones/locations in the clock applet

3、Dictionary Support:Fix the proliferation of dictionaries in Fedora

4、Full Virt Kernel Boot:Xen fully virtualized guests will be able to directly boot a kernel and initrd image and pass kernel boot args

5、ext4 filesystem:Add ext4 filesystem support

6、Encrypted Filesystems:Add built in encrypted file system support

7、Fast X start up and shutdown:Increase response time to 1 second from exec to accepting clients

8、Firefox 3:Upgrade to Firefox 3

9、Free IPA:Make Identity, Policy and Audit centrally and more easily managed

10、gcc4.3:Update Fedora to gcc 4.3

11、gdm:Update to new upstream Gnome Desktop Manager (gdm)

12、Gvfs:Gvfs is a userspace virtual filesystem with backends for things like sftp, ftp, dav, smb, obexftp, etc. It is the replacement/successor of gnome-vfs

13、jigdo:Provide jigdo support for obtaining Fedora

14、KDE4:Replace KDE3.5 with 4.0 and upgrade modules

15、Live Persistence:Live USB images persist between booting

16、More NetworkManager:Expand the situations in which NetworkManager can be used and make it more robust

17、NetworkManager Mobile Broadband:Proper support of GSM and CDMA mobile broadband cards in NetworkManager, including first-class device support like Ethernet and WiFi devices

18、PackageKit:Provide alternative package management system

19、Partition Resizing:Partition resizing at install time

20、perl5.10:Update perl in Fedora 9 to 5.10.0

21、Pre Upgrade:Allow users to depsolve and download only the pkgs they need to upgrade their distro while using the older version

22、Randr Support:Use the capabilities offered by the Xrandr X extension throughout the desktop

23、Second Stage Install Source:Move install selection to second stage of installer

24、TeXLive:Replace teTeX with TeXLive

25、Update X Server:Update X server to at least version 1.5

26、Upstart:Replacement for SysVinit that allows service management and event-driven initialization

27、Virtual Authentication:Extend remote authentication to use Kerberos and PAM

28、Virtual Manager PolicyKit:Enable virt-manager to run as a unpriveledged user

29、Xen paravirt_ops:Replacing the current forward-ported XenSource code in kernel-xen with the paravirt_ops based implementation from upstream

30、XULRunner:Introducing and ensuring that all the applications that need only the Gecko browser engine are using XULRunner

期待5月13号，期待ext4、Upstart、Update X Server、new gdm 期待fedora9！

详细发布日程：http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Schedule