14 DAY TRIAL // Named "Thor", the first beta version of Mandriva Linux 2007 has been released to the general public for testing: "Available in four different flavours (KDE or GNOME, i586 or x86_64), you can get a glimpse of the next Mandriva Linux 2007 edition. Note that not all of the new features have been implemented yet and that a beta version is not bug-proof. This is why we strongly encourage everyone to test and report any bugs or surprises they may encounter. Main changes: New Mirror structure; New network popup notifications (on network state mainly); Gnome 2.16 beta 1; Kernel 2.6.17; KDE 3.5.3; Updated wireless application (drakroam) (encryption mainly); Switch to new standard menus, XDG (in progress)."
You can find out more information here.
Known Issues for this release are:
￭ The software installer (rpmdrake) is broken; you must use urpmi and the command line to install new packages; ￭ A lot of menu entries are not yet displayed because the XDG migration is not finished.
What's new?
￭ New Mirror structure ￭ New network popup notifications ￭ Gnome 2.16 beta 1 ￭ Kernel 2.6.17 ￭ KDE 3.5.3 ￭ Updated wireless application (drakroam) ￭ Switch to XDG menus (in progress)
You can get Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta 1 now from Softpedia, as follows:
mandriva-one-2007-thor-gnome.i586.iso
Gnome Live CD for i586 processors (also works on x86_64 processors).
Languages: English, Belarusian, Romanian, Slovenian, Afrikaans, Arabic, Assamese, Azeri, Berber, Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Armenian, Indonesian, Japanese, Georgian, Khmer, Kannada, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Laotian, Maori, Malayalam, Mongolian, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Swati, Sotho, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Turkmen, Tatar, Uyghur, Urdu, Uzbek, Venda, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Zulu.
mandriva-one-2007-thor-gnome.x86_64.iso
Gnome Live CD for x86_64 processors.
Languages: English, Danish, Greek, Esperanto, Finnish, Faroese, Friulan, Frisian, Icelandic, Limburguish, Dutch, Saami, Swedish, Turkish
mandriva-one-2007-thor-kde.i586.iso
KDE Live CD for i586 processors (also works on x86_64 processors).
Languages: English, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Estonian, Croatian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Albanian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Yiddish.
mandriva-one-2007-thor-kde-2.i586.iso
KDE Live CD for i586 processors (also works on x86_64 processors).
Languages: English, Russian, Polish, Slovak, Amharic, Korean, Chinese, Hungarian.
mandriva-one-2007-thor-kde.x86_64.iso
KDE Live CD for x86_64 processors.
Languages: English, Breton, Catalan, Czech, French, Welsh, German, Spanish, Basque, Irish, Galician, Italian, Inuktitut, Greenlandic, Maltese, Lower Saxon, Occitan, Portuguese, Sardinian, Walloon.
You are encouraged to test and comment this beta release.