Fedora 9 released

Fedora 9 has the following features:

• FreeIPA – for managing identities and authentication
• support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
• support for creating and installing to encrypted file systems
• unified installer of packages via PackageKit

Desktop environments such as GNOME 2.22 and KDE4 are available so you could choose either.

I guess that for people who are dual-booting or have other types of file systems on other partitions the best thing in the release is the ability to resize partitions. I’ve encountered people who have had difficulties resizing the partitions on their hard drives and so they have to boot into the other OS in order to do some resizing.

Admins will have even better ways of managing users with FreeIPA — single sign-on for many services is said to be a feature and I’d probably mention that to our sys ads. Single sign-on would be beneficial for users. It’s such a pain sometimes to keep logging on the various services which we are using.

Get your copy of Fedora 9 so you could start fiddling around with it and let us know how it goes! (I am sorry but I am loyal to Debian and Ubuntu… but still! I can’t help but be curious about other Linuxen.)