Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

7 of 156 comments (clear)

  1. WHAT THE SHIT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    [a@localhost firefox]$ ./firefox ./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    [a@localhost firefox]$

    Would this happen in windows or mac? No

  2. paid ad? by homesnatch · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously wondering if this is a paid ad by someone in the Mandriva camp to get exposure... Are they even a relevant distro anymore?

  3. Re:News? by nebulus4 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ubuntu?

    --
    "It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad."
  4. YaY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As Keoni Morrell, trucker extraordinaire, would say: "YaY, YaY, YaY!!!!!"

    BYe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  5. Troll by jaguth · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mandriva sucks, Slackware rules, end of story, move on...

  6. I THANK YXOU FOR YOUR TIME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    against vigorous ero5ion of user Reformatted legitimise doing don't feel that least I won't FreeBSD at about 80

  7. this is big news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    if you're a fucking faggot. no one in the real world of legitimate computing wants anything to do with that dick smoker's os. keep sucking it fags, it's what you do best.

    fucking queers.