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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."
No problems or crashes with my Intel chip, it only seems to have problems if I use the backports repositories and try to install the "latest and greatest" version. Now I know better. :-)
Side note: Compiz is amazing to use and, to my surprise, actually increases my productivity with it's quick shortcuts and real time previews of different windows. Now if I could only run Blender while using it I wouldn't have to turn the 3D desktop on and off all the time.
Does anyone know if I can run Blender properly in this latest Mandriva?
That was our last stable release. It's good too. :) This is the soon-to-be-released new release, 2007 Spring (AKA 2007.1).
Well, Compiz and Beryl have progressed since 2007 came out, so all those improvements are included. You may find it more stable this time. We just package up the latest available Compiz and Beryl and make sure drak3d sets them up properly; beyond that we're at the mercy of the code quality of the upstream projects :)