14 DAY TRIAL // Just in time for Easter, the first Beta release of the upcoming Mandriva Linux 2010.1 (Spring) operating system, due for launch in early June this year, is now available for download on mirrors worldwide. Once again, bleeding-edge packages are present in Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Beta 1, such as Linux kernel 2.6.33.1, KDE Software Compilation 4.4.2, GNOME 2.30.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2, OpenOffice.org 3.2, Deluge 1.2.3, and many more (see the highlights for details). As everyone expected, this release is now available as a GNOME and KDE4 Live CDs, for anyone to test and report bugs!
Highlights of Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Beta 1:
January 9th, 2010 - Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 1
February 6th, 2010 - Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 2
February 25th, 2010 - Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 3
April 2nd, 2010 - Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Beta 1
April 23rd, 2010 - Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Beta 2
May 13th, 2010 - Mandriva Linux 2010.1 RC
June 3rd, 2010 - Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Final release.
The development cycle of Mandriva Linux 2010.1 (Spring) will continue with another Beta release at the end of this month or the beginning of May, an RC release in May, and the final release in June 2010.
Download Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Beta 1 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only. Please report bugs to the Mandriva Bug Tracker.