Adam Williamson has announced the availability of the first alpha release of
Mandriva Linux 2009.1, now shipping with KDE 4.2 beta 2: "Thefirst pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2009.1 is now available. This alphaconcentrates on updating to the major desktop components of thedistribution, including KDE 4.2 beta 2, GNOME 2.25.2, Xfce 4.6 beta 2,X.Org server 1.5, and kernel 2.6.28-rc8. It is also the firstdistribution to introduce the major new Tcl/Tk release, 8.6. The alphais available only in the DVD 'Free' edition with a traditionalinstaller and no proprietary applications; future pre-releases will addthe live CD 'One' edition with proprietary drivers. Please help testthis first pre-release and
report bugs to Mandriva." Read
release announcement and
release notes for more details.
Download:
mandriva-linux-free-2009.1-alpha-dvd-i586.iso (4,451MB,
MD5),
mandriva-linux-free-2009.1-alpha-dvd-x86_64.iso (3,903MB,
MD5).
