Ed in CT
May 5th, 2009, 04:24 AM
MANDRIVA HAS UNLEASHED its Spring 2009.1 release, the latest version of its popular and freedom-based, easy to install and use Linux distribution.
This year the Mandriva Linux Spring release was put together fairly smoothly. I'd tried the beta release in March and found it was still missing some pieces that were important to me, and as late as a week or so ago there was talk on Mandriva's Cooker forum that final development work and testing might not be finished until June. So it was somewhat of a surprise to see Mandriva Update suddenly pop up a notice yesterday afternoon that the new 2009.1 release is available.
Some of the features in Mandriva 2009.1 Spring include the desktop environments KDE 4.2.2, Gnome 2.26.1 and the lightweight LXDE which is well suited for netbooks, the new high performance ext4 journaling filesystem, initialisation streamlining for faster booting, improvements to networking setup and management automation, a redesigned security management system, the Sugar children's learning environment developed for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, the Songbird audio centre application, VirtualBox 2.2 virtualisation, Wine 1.1.19 support for running Windows applications, Open Office 3 and more.
There is a Guided Tour available, along with the Release Notes of course. The distribution mirrors were just getting populated when I looked early this morning, but they should all be updated soon.
Download buttons for both the Mandriva One live CD and Mandriva Linux Powerpack DVD are at the link below. I'm downloading the 4.66GB Free version DVD iso file from my favoured Mandriva mirror site now. ยต
Formally Mandrake, this distro keeps getting better and better.
Get it here (http://www2.mandriva.com/)
This year the Mandriva Linux Spring release was put together fairly smoothly. I'd tried the beta release in March and found it was still missing some pieces that were important to me, and as late as a week or so ago there was talk on Mandriva's Cooker forum that final development work and testing might not be finished until June. So it was somewhat of a surprise to see Mandriva Update suddenly pop up a notice yesterday afternoon that the new 2009.1 release is available.
Some of the features in Mandriva 2009.1 Spring include the desktop environments KDE 4.2.2, Gnome 2.26.1 and the lightweight LXDE which is well suited for netbooks, the new high performance ext4 journaling filesystem, initialisation streamlining for faster booting, improvements to networking setup and management automation, a redesigned security management system, the Sugar children's learning environment developed for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, the Songbird audio centre application, VirtualBox 2.2 virtualisation, Wine 1.1.19 support for running Windows applications, Open Office 3 and more.
There is a Guided Tour available, along with the Release Notes of course. The distribution mirrors were just getting populated when I looked early this morning, but they should all be updated soon.
Download buttons for both the Mandriva One live CD and Mandriva Linux Powerpack DVD are at the link below. I'm downloading the 4.66GB Free version DVD iso file from my favoured Mandriva mirror site now. ยต
Formally Mandrake, this distro keeps getting better and better.
Get it here (http://www2.mandriva.com/)