Later today, Fedora 9 will be release.

As, I'm using Redhat Enterprise in my work, Fedora is always part of my Linux Multiboot Test System. Next to Ubuntu, I usually spend enough time exploring Fedora and trying many new things that I might see in the next release of Redhat Enterprise. It's always cool to try cutting edge stuffs even it means sometimes it breaks and you need to spend time figuring out how to make it work or fixing it. Well, this is how you learn and you enjoy things anyway, so no complain.

There are many new features in this new release of Fedora. You can go to Fedora website and read them all there directly, but one thing I'm really excited and worth to mention in this post is the new Live USB.

Imagine you go to your friend's house and you want to check your email and shop at amazon.com; but what they have is a pirated Windows XP, no Service Packs and no updated antivirus. When you open the Internet Explorer, two levels of toolbars with different flavors of crapware are there. You typed google.com but it goes to some strange site with full of ads and pops-up two more Windows - a girl in bikini and a monkey running back and forth saying catch me if you can. Dude, will you still go ahead and use this machine?

Thanks to Fedora we can have now a Live USB that you can carry always for safer computing and most of all with the ability to have a persistent data. This means that any changes you make, documents you create or software you install will all be saved to your USB drive and available the next time you plug it in. And that applies not just to user installed files and apps, but the system as well, which means any system update you find will be part of your Live USB partition. Very cool!

I tried the latest release and its pretty impressive. The boot times were on par with an actual hard disk install and really very useful to me both in my work and personal use.

Even you don't like Linux or Fedora, at least try this Live USB.