Hi all,
I am pleased to announce to you that the iso of Mandriva 2011 Alpha 1 just went out, and should be available in devel/isos/2011 directory on your favorite mirror shortly!
As promised some weeks ago, the Mandriva 2011 Alpha1 is following the lead of Mandriva 2011 Technical Preview, sorting out some of the issues we noticed in it. Besides all the features present in the Technical Preview, this Alpha1 version also brings you:
- Latest kernel 2.6.37
- RPM 5.3.8 (20110125)
- NetworkManager 0.8.2, with mandriva integration plugin
- Systemd 17, enabled and activated by default
- KDE SC 4.6.0
- GNOME 2.32.1
- XFCE 4.8.0
- GCC 4.5.2, with plugins enabled by default
- Chromium browser, provided in a versioning scheme to match the one used Google Chrome project (e.g., chromium-browser-stable and chromium-browser-unstable)
- Firefox 4b11
- OpenSSL 1.0.0d
- Wine 1.3.13
…among many others, available either on the iso, or via repositories. The list of packages to be present on the final version is not completely settled yet, so make sure to give your voice on what you prefer to have in Mandriva 2011.
Besides those items, the following are also worth mentioning:
- Work has started on updating TeX Live to 2010 version. It is still in early stages at the moment, and welcomes comments/testing/feedback.
- Nepomuk and social desktop are activated by default in KDE desktop
- Same ISO media is now used for both Live images and installable ones, so you don’t have to install this version of Mandriva to see how it works and what does it looks like. Just boot the image and you are all set (make sure to use the livecd-iso-to-disk utility within the .iso file if you want to boot it from a flash drive).
Of course, it is needless to mention that it is an Alpha version, and there are still many things to be done before the final release.
And of course, if your favorite application was not updated to the latest version, of there is something that you think should be improved – please, feel tell us about it. Or, even better, be invited to contribute to Mandriva community, helping us to improve the distribution – either by reporting bugs, or triaging them, or even by becoming a package maintainer or developer yourself.
P.S.: A last-minute issue was discovered in x86_64 iso which prevented its boot in some occasions. The updated x86_64 iso should be available in the coming days.
Edit: some corrections in package names and versions.
Edit2: Mandriva 2011 x86_64 alpha1 iso is available now, have fun!
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where’s Gnome3?
Hi,
it was commented many times before, both here and on mail lists and forums.. It was stated numerous times before on cooker mailing lists, forums, sites, and so on, that Mandriva does all the things and does not allows anyone besides the Mandriva developers to do anything or decide anything about the distribution; and the distribution entry level for contributors is too high.
So with this in mind, we have decided to focus on one desktop environment by default, namely KDE. The other ones are for you, the community, the people interested in seeing Mandriva desktop the way you prefer, to develop. You can decide how to develop or release or design GNOME/XFCE/LXDE/Fluxbox editions – we can help, but we won’t stay on your way.
So I guess this answers your question. Gnome3 will be there when community will decide on what to do with it, and how to do it. We can help with whatever is necessary – build infrastructure, svn access, build scripts, and so on; but it was too often commented that it is a mistake from Mandriva part to do everything on its own, so we decided to switch this strategy. Of course, if the community won’t be interested, or able to do it, we will have to think on something. But I have high hopes that it will work!
Gnome 3 is scheduled for April 2011 , and it would probably be included in the RC
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Any screenshot
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Reply to myself : http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2011_Alpha_1
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Is it possible to run Fedora packages with Mandriva? Is the base compatible?
Possible? Sometimes. Sane? Not really. Recommended? Certainly Not.
torrent?
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Hi,
I’ve tried to install this Alpha1 (i586) under VirtualBox 4 and installation freezes at the step of removing unnecessary packages
Is it not possible to install on VirtualBox?
is the user-interface of mandriva control center updated?i don’t like it .maybe i prefer the kde systemsettings.
as well, i think i would like to DIY it.is there any convenient way to do it?
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shedule on april 3 is very near.
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Does Eugeni’s comment mean there will be no Gnome as a login option in 2011.?
A very grave omission many of us if so, particularly so for paid-up pwp users
desktop view there is no innovation, along version of such a course. only applications are always up to date. why????