It won’t be long until we can welcome Fedora Core 9 into our PC’s onto our hard disks. I’ve already written about the Fedora Core 9 Alpha release, where one could start testing with KDE 4 on Fedora.

Besides KDE 4 there are a lot more interesting things planned for Fedora Core 9. Let’s pinpoint a few interesting changes.

• As mentioned, KDE 4
• ext4 support
• Firefox 3
• Encrypted Filesystems, this include install time creation/configuration!
• GCC 4.3
• PreUpgrade, an interesting features that supposedly allows users to easily download all the files needed to upgrade their distro, and then reboot into the installer without burning media.
• PackageKit, I’m a yum cli guy anyway but still…
• Swfdec, to provide support for flash movies. I hope this goes better then my IcedTea experiences.

Biggest question for me is, will Firefox 3 be released before Fedora Core 9 ships? If it’s up to the Fedora Project, the answer is yes

If you like, there is a full list of features in Fedora Core 9.