Mandriva 2009 Beta, released
Mandriva 2009 beta was released yesterday. Among all the changes that we can find, there is one kind of interesting: the new installer.
As openSUSE did, the Mandriva team decided to improve the installation program and now it is really cool. About package versions, this beta updates OpenOffice.org to version 3.0 beta (they hope that the final OOo release will be published at the same time as Mandriva 2009 will do).
Also, it includes the atl1e driver used by several new Asus Eee models; Firefox 2 is completely removed from the repositories and now we only can find Firefox 3; it includes the last version of KDE 4.1, which is the default desktop and the official Mandriva theme, Ia Ora, is further integrated into KDE 4 in this release.
- Link | Release announcement | Release notes
- Download | Mandriva 2009 Beta DVD
I’ve quite a bit about Mandriva, the last I tried it was way back when it was known as Linux Mandrake! Gotta try Mandriva 2009 soon, seems fresh and interesting!
Yes, but I still think that distributions like Fedora, OpenSUSE or Mandriva should make a tool to install those propietary codecs/drivers in order to set up properly the system (I think that that one is the best thing on ubuntu).
Now I’m trying Fedora!
(well, not yet, in a few minutes…) ahahha