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Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring Xfce edition released

Published by awilliamson on Thursday, May 1 2008 @ 07:31:54 CEST

Thanks to the efforts of the Mandriva Linux Xfce development community, an Xfce version of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring One is now available. Just like the KDE and GNOME versions of One, this is an installable live CD edition of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring, but this time featuring Xfce as the desktop environment. As with the other One versions, three images are available, with different sets of languages on each. This is an unofficial release, but the Xfce development volunteers will attempt to address any problems or questions about this release. You can get the default language set version here, the alternative language set version here and the Asian language set version here. The images may also be made available on the official Mandriva mirrors in future. Any problems you find in these images can be reported as normal to Bugzilla.

Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring released

Published by awilliamson on Wednesday, April 9 2008 @ 02:42:07 CEST

Mandriva is proud to announce the release of its latest distribution, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring. This new release brings features like full support for the Asus Eee, easy synchronization with Windows Mobile 5 and later, Blackberry, and Nokia devices, a new parental control utility, the Elisa multimedia center, Codeina for easy installation of necessary media codecs, PulseAudio by default and much more. Software updates include KDE 3.5.9 (with 4.0.2 available from the official repositories), GNOME 2.22, OpenOffice.org 2.4, Linux kernel 2.6.24.4, X.org 7.3, Compiz 0.7, and more.

Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring release warm up

Published by Arkub on Monday, April 7 2008 @ 10:15:52 CEST

The Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring release warm up programme has begun: 300 early seeders have been contacted and have started to seed the torrents. Be ready to download Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring in the very next days!

Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC2 One

Published by Anne on Friday, March 21 2008 @ 11:30:58 CET

KDE and GNOME One isos are now available on public mirrors. Also provided extra i18n iso in order to provide some more languages.

Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC2 Aceras released

Published by awilliamson on Wednesday, March 19 2008 @ 08:15:56 CET

The sixth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes support for easy synchronization of Windows Mobile 5+, Blackberry and Nokia devices, the Codeina multimedia codec installation system, support for Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics cards, more improvements to the Mandriva software installation tools, the finalized 2008 Spring theme, a new metapackage for easily installing a complete LAMP setup, and available KDE 4.0.2. See here for download information. The pre-release is available in Free and One editions, with i586 and x86-64 DVDs for the Free edition and i586, KDE-based and GNOME-based CDs for the One edition. Please report any problems you encounter to Bugzilla. You can also discuss the release candidate in the official forums. It may take a few hours for the files to be copied to all mirrors, so if you do not find them on the first mirror you try, try another.