On the road again with Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring Alpha1

Mandriva team wishes you happy new year 2010 and is proud to propose the first alpha release for 2010 Spring.  Together with these isos, you will find also technical specifications for this coming release.

Many improvements and new functionnalities are planned for this new version: your desktop will be smart and connected! Smart desktop is still one of the focus of main version, you can have a look on the coming roadmap. But you will find also easy home encryption so that your personal data are secured even whereever you are. Also planned a big work on our tools to manage softwares installation and update to give more useful information and help user in choosing the best of open source softwares.

Desktop environments are  also one of our main focus to provide the best of Linux experience: preview of gnome-shell announcing future GNOME 3, KDE 4 also providing more and more innovations such as netbook plasmoid… Just test it en enjoy!

Finally work is also in progress to add cloud functionnalities in your favorite desktop. Do not choose between web os or traditional desktop: just use Mandriva Linux.

As usual all your feedbacks are really important to help in improving global quality of distribution. You can report improvements proposals and/or bugs in Mandriva Bugzilla.

Again happy new year and enjoy this pre release!

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  5. Michel says:

    hello,

    good news:

    Also planned a big work on our tools to manage softwares installation and update to give more useful information and help user in choosing the best of open source softwares.

    ideas : http://ideas.mandriva.com/fr/idees/show.php?id=171

    Another idea for improvement, parental control. Managing users (age, time) and lists of banned sites.

    ideas: http://ideas.mandriva.com/fr/idees/show.php?id=170