According to Spread Firefox the official release time for Firefox 3.0 will be at 10AM PST, so 1PM EST (for me). Are you excited? Really excited? Well if you are, I feel sorry for you ;-) I took a note from Chris Blizzard and cheated by downloading already by typing out the full URL into a mirror (no, I didn’t use a link). Unfortunately for Fedora 9 users I haven’t seen any notice of an update (Fedora 8 no clue).

After spending a good deal of time configuring Fedora 9 I thought I would take this opportunity to provide my thoughts and feedback. The following is my Review of Fedora 9 (F9). “Sulphur” smells only just a little. Installation Media The first thing I was happy to see was that the team finally decided to offer Fedora 9 in multi-CD installations in addition to the DVD installation. This has been missing since Fedora 7.

Can you feel the burn of “Sulphur” ? After an unfortunate 2 week delay the Fedora project just announced the release of Fedora 9. Fedora has always been known to be the latest and greatest and this release is no different, rough edges and all. A great deal of hard work has been done to put this all together. The highlights from the Release Summary: Desktop GNOME 2.22 - many added functions, improvements KDE 4.

A frequently asked question is: Where can I find a specific older version of Fedora? The correct answer is: If you CANNOT find it on the official Fedora Mirror List, then chances are it is too old and not supported. Unless you need an older version for some very specific task, I strongly recommend that you use a recent version of Fedora. To find an older version, start by going through the mirrors to see if you can find a site that is physically closer to you (for faster downloads).

Just for fun … inspired by the Fedora bloggers. # history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head On my Fedora 8 box: 481 ls 297 cd 54 vim 24 rm 17 du 12 sudo 12 mv 9 who 9 screen 9 find On my CentOS 5.1 box: 344 ls 234 cd 54 sudo 29 vim 23 rpm 22 ./annoying_app_i_cant_get_to_work_on_centos5 18 ./configure 16 pwd 15 wget 15 scp On my web server: