14 DAY TRIAL // "Sunna" is the name of the second release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2007 that was released yesterday:
"As you've been faithfully doing for the past several weeks, RC2 Sunna is available in many different flavors. Grab one or many from the mirrors, check out the known issues, install it and help us hunt and squash bugs with Bugzilla.
Thank you to all testers for the help they've been giving. Long hours, short nights. Keep up the effort, we're almost there now: Mandriva Linux 2007 is almost ready to roll. It's already rocking!"
Main changes from Mandriva Linux 2007 RC1 (Mona) are:
￭ Several bugs fixed in rpmdrake; ￭ Text installation fixed; ￭ Various fixes to Ia Ora themes; ￭ Arts patched to prevent some problems (apps dying on startup, arts being launched in non-KDE environments); ￭ Various other bugfixes.
Known issues:
￭ Add... button in rpmdrake's media configuration module does not work. This is fixed in rpmdrake 3.4 in Cooker. ￭ If you select the Network computer (client) package group during installation, or go through individual package selection and check dhcp-client and / or samba-client for installation, problems will occur later in installation: if you configure the network to use DHCP and attempt to bring it up, it will fail with a message stating that dhcp-client cannot be installed. A similar problem will occur with printer configuration if you attempt to detect printers connected to Windows machines on the local network, it will complain that samba client packages cannot be installed, and fail. ￭ For bluetooth pairing to work, you must run the command passkey-agent --default /bin/bluepin. ￭ You must run the command hciconfig hci0 piscan as root to make your bluetooth adapter discoverable by other devices. ￭ Upgrading from 2006 to 2007 via the installer is not recommended at present due to several bugs. ￭ Users of SiS? or VIA graphics chipsets may experience problems: see http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24050 for information and possible workarounds ￭ The Add... button for adding software sources in rpmdrake does not currently work correctly. ￭ If you choose Chinese, Japanese or Korean as one of your languages during installation, your system will seem to hang at a blue screen during startup. To fix this, switch to a console with ctrl-alt-F1, log in as root, run killall drakfirsttime and then urpme drakfirsttime.
You can download and test this last release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2007 now from Softpedia.