14 DAY TRIAL // "Odin" is the name of the second beta of Mandriva Linux 2007, just released a couple of minutes ago:
"This Beta is mainly available via two means. Firstly via the public FTP and HTTP sites mirroring the Mandriva Linux repository. Check the current development mirrors at CookerMirrors, the 2007 Beta tree is in /devel/2007.0/. Second, the preferred way, via either the provided One CDs (installable live CDs), or the intallation DVD or the six installation CDs. You will find the live CDs and the installation CDs and DVD in the same mirrors as the cooker one, in the /devel/iso/2007.0/ section."
You can find more information here.
Known Issues for this release:
￭ The software installer (rpmdrake) is (still) 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; ￭ You may need to deactivate 3D acceleration on some Intel based video chipset in order for X to work.
What's new?
￭ GNOME 2.16 beta 2 ￭ Kernel 2.6.17 (based on 2.6.17.8, with ALSA 1.0.12 rc2, i965 support, and new kernel factorization: normal, enterprise and legacy) ￭ KDE 3.5.4 ￭ More applications migrated to XDG menus ￭ New 'Ia Ora' Mandriva Theme (for now only included in GNOME) ￭ New VPN configuration tool (drakvpn)
You can download and test this second beta of Mandriva Linux 2007 now from Softpedia.