Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1 released

Published by awilliamson on Tuesday, July 29 2008 @ 11:15:12 CEST
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Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1 'thornicrofti'. This beta includes the newest release of KDE 4, KDE 4.1 final (with initial implementation of the Mandriva Ia Ora theme, although this is not yet complete), and GNOME 2.23.5. It also uses Firefox 3 by default, and kernel 2.6.26 final. The new beta also switches to using splashy (rather than bootsplash) for boot and shutdown graphics, and adds synchronization support for Windows Mobile 2003 devices. As always, we remind you not to use pre-releases in any critical situation; install them only on a test system or partition, or in a virtual machine. Additionally, we strongly discourage using this pre-release to upgrade from any earlier release of Mandriva Linux, as the transition process from KDE 3 to KDE 4 is not yet fully implemented and you are likely to end up with an unusable system. Please make sure to read the Errata and Release Notes, and file any bugs not covered in those pages on Bugzilla.

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Comments (3)

scubajim | 29.07.2008 at 11:26 PM
Hurrah!

But you named it after a GIRAFFE?

ovan | 15.08.2008 at 07:17 AM
wow… i am so curious about how it looks on a final release, i hope its much better than 2008.1 spring free. and hopefully mandriva 2009 could solve any modems problem, such as Huawei E220 3G modem, etc
050608-F112US-4E4G | 09.10.2008 at 12:29 AM
billdevlp I use 2008 now and I can see you include Firefox 3.0 which is a 64 bit program. I have a 64 bit processor but the problem is the adobe flash player is 32 bit and does not work with Firefox 3.0 so no video where the flash player is required (comcast.net). Did you fix this problem or just ignoring it as you did in the past two years ? I solved the problem by downloading Firefox 2.xxx (32 bit) and now I could install flash player 9.0 to work together. I have a separate icon on the desktop for this which I use to get to the internet. I hope you know we use 64 bit processors in the past few years and lot of 32 program runs on it but looks like the require 32 bit programs if they interact.

 


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