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Mandriva Linux 2009 Alpha 2 Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the still-needs-some-ironing dept.

AdamWill writes "The Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 2, marking the first public pre-release of the upcoming Mandriva Linux 2009. This alpha introduces several significant changes, most obviously the inclusion of KDE 4 — 4.1 beta 2, specifically — as the default version of KDE, and the latest development version of GNOME, 2.23.4. The kernel has also been updated to release 2.6.26rc7. Another feature of interest to many users will be the addition of orphan package tracking (and optional automatic removal) to the urpmi package manager. Of course, many applications have been updated (although the default version of Mozilla Firefox is still currently 2.0.x), and most of the distribution has been rebuilt with a new GCC version, 4.3. Mandriva warns that this is a true alpha, likely to contain many bugs related to the new version of KDE. Please install it only in a test environment, and especially do not use it as an upgrade from any earlier Mandriva Linux release."

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  1. Re:WHAT THE SHIT? by dameron · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Would you be dicking around in a windows or mac alpha?

    No, you wouldn't.

  2. Any stable desktop? by MMC+Monster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A beta version of KDE4? A development version of Gnome, and a RC of the kernel?

    At least this is only an alpha.

    Which makes me wonder how this got to the front page of /..

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  3. Who does Mandriva appeal to? Me! by gukin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've been running Mandriva since MDK 7.2, I had a few issues with 8.2 but everything "just works".

    Yes I've tried Ubuntu, it's very shiny but I can't get into the guts of the beast; besides I'm better at using Mandriva.

    What I really like best is I can use my Power pack (yes I'm a silver member) or I can use Mandriva-mini and, once I"ve set up the repositories, I can type "sudo urpmi mythtv-backend" and it all goes and works.

    To me, that's a pretty damn neat trick. That's a lot neater than going down to Best Buy and buying whatever TV tuner they've got and trying to make it work on Vista.