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Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring RC3 released
AdamWill writes "Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring RC3 "Beijing" is now available. Featuring the most comprehensive support for 3D desktop technologies, the latest versions of KDE, GNOME, Mozilla Firefox and others, a beautiful new theme and enhancements and refinements to the comprehensive suite of Mandriva configuration utilities, Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring is the best Mandriva Linux release yet. Beijing features fixes to all major bugs in previous betas and release candidates, the final version of GNOME 2.18, and the full feature set intended for the final release. Both traditional installer-based Free editions and combined live / install CD One editions are available. Beijing is available from all Mandriva mirror sites in the /devel/iso/2007.1 directory. Please consult the release notes for more information."
Yes. It's the latest release candidate, released a few days ago.
No, it's Mandrake, which pre-dates Ubuntu. The name was changed from Mandrake to Mandriva after MandrakeSoft went bankrupt and merged with Connectiva in 2005.
See here for more information.
Maybe not
Is 3D desktop support actually good this time? Although it my be because i'm running with an ATI video card, I found that the 3D desktop support was terrible in the original Mandriva 2007. Frequent crashes where a major problem. I don't really need a 3D desktop, so I turned it off, but it sure would be nice to have a 3D desktop that works.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Um. Beijing is a city. Trotsky, Stalin, Marx and Lenin were communist leaders.