Technology : Fedora 9 Alpha Release

I've just downloaded Fedora 9 Alpha Release Live CD. According to Fedora Project team, they'll be releasing Fedora 9 by 29th of April 2008. I've been waiting for this release for months. Because I've been planning to upgrade my Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 few months ago. But base on my experience on installing Fedora 8 on desktop PC's we've encountered several challenges along the way.

The first challenge we've encountered is installing driver for video card with Nvidia Chipset. A motherboard with built-in video card 6100 series. What happen is the video quality is blurry and using a Samsung 17" LCD monitor, the screen orientation is quite a mess. You won't be able to calibrate properly your screen.

Also as far as I can remember I've also encounter video card driver issues on my HP Pavilion zv500 laptop. When I've updgraded my Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 7, it also became a challenge to me installing video driver on a built-in ATI Radeon Chipset. With the self of some fellow Fedora users, they've formulated a procedure to properly install the driver. I am now able to use beryl on my desktop, my favorite feature is the 3d flip. Well I hope on Fedora 9 that there's a built-in driver for ATI Radeon Video Chipset so I won't be able to encounter such challenges.

Tried Fedora 9 Live CD on my Laptop and it loads perfectly. Something i noticed is that the look and feel is the same as Fedora 8. I haven't check the features yet and will be if given a time again.

Keep posted, will update this article again.

NOTE: May 13, Fedora 9 will be released according to FedoraProject Check this link: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Schedule