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Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1 Released

  Submitted by AdamW Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 13 Comments

Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1 ‘thornicrofti’. This beta includes the newest release of KDE 4, KDE 4.1 final, GNOME 2.23.5, Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.26 final. The new beta also switches to using splashy (rather than bootsplash) for boot and shutdown graphics, and adds synchronization support for Windows Mobile 2003 devices. As always, Mandriva reminds you not to use pre-releases in any critical situation; install them only on a test system or partition, or in a virtual machine. Additionally, they strongly discourage using this pre-release to upgrade from any earlier release of Mandriva Linux, as the transition process from KDE 3 to KDE 4 is not yet fully implemented and you are likely to end up with an unusable system. Please make sure to read the Errata and Release Notes, and file any bugs not covered in those pages on Bugzilla.

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  1. 2008-07-30 8:15 pm
    motang

    Can’t seem to find a link for the LiveCD? Any idea as to why it isn’t out, or have a link for the torrent file. Thanks.

  2. 2008-07-31 7:26 am
    Anonymous Penguin

    Please leave Firefox 2 also available for Mandriva 2009.

    • 2008-07-31 9:56 am
      porcel

      Maybe this should be offered as an alternative, but why?

      If there are some extensions that do not yet work with FF3, now is the time to bug the developers of said extensions to make sure that any issues wit their extensions are fixed.

      • 2008-07-31 2:17 pm
        Anonymous Penguin

        Yes, as an alternative.

        Why? Because Firefox 3 “kills” Firefox 2 profiles, as it has been said many times.

    • 2008-07-31 12:29 pm
      dexter11

      There’s no point. Mandriva 2009 will come out in October. Firefox 2.x is supported until December IIRC.

  3. 2008-07-31 5:51 pm
    AdamW

    But as Dexter said, Firefox 2 won’t be supported past December, so I don’t think we’ll ship it – there wouldn’t be much point.

  4. 2008-07-31 7:30 pm
    ghostdawg

    I just recently installed the latest release and must say so far it looks pretty good. I haven’t tried any Mandriva’s since Mandrake 8, I think.

    One problem I have and that’s with all KDE distros, is to trim some of the fat out of KDE.

    • 2008-07-31 9:19 pm
      reinouts

      You could always install the GNOME One CD instead. ;)

      (For 2008.1 Spring there’s even an XFce release if I’m not mistaken.)

    • 2008-08-01 8:22 am
      satan666

      If you want to trim the fat it is very simple with Mandriva. Don’t use the Live CD installer, use the the DVD (or 3 CD set) installer. That will give you the option to custom install. You can install only the core of Mandriva and add later the desktop environment with this command: “urpmi task-kde4-minimal”. You can add other stuff with urpmi as you desire. Mandriva + KDE can be as lean or as fat as you want it to be.

  5. 2008-08-01 11:58 am
    hussam

    Any screenshots of the gnome and kde4 desktops in this new beta?