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.