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URGENT NOTIFICATION: major bug in all Mandriva Linux 2009 pre-releases

Published by awilliamson on Tuesday, September 23 2008 @ 09:33:16 CEST

A major kernel bug was recently discovered (see also Mandriva bug 44147). This is not a Mandriva-specific issue, the cause lies in the official kernel code, and the issue will affect any system or distribution that uses the affected kernels. It can cause the EEPROM data on network interfaces supported by the e1000e module to become corrupted, rendering the interface unusable. The issue is believed mainly to affect systems based on the Intel ICH8 and ICH9 chipsets.

Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 2 released

Published by awilliamson on Thursday, August 21 2008 @ 02:18:55 CEST

Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 2 'okapi'. This beta includes a completely new installer for the Free (and, in the final release, Powerpack) edition, and is testing the Fedora system-config-printer printer configuration tool as an alternative to printerdrake. The new beta also brings Firefox 3, OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta, and support for the ethernet adapter used in many new Eee (and other netbook) models. As always, Mandriva reminds you not to use pre-releases in any critical situation; install them only on a test system or partition, or in a virtual machine. Additionally, we strongly discourage using this pre-release to upgrade from any earlier release of Mandriva Linux, as the transition process from KDE 3 to KDE 4 is not yet fully implemented and you are likely to end up with an unusable system. Please make sure to read the Errata and Release Notes, and file any bugs not covered in those pages on Bugzilla.

Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1 released

Published by awilliamson on Tuesday, July 29 2008 @ 11:15:12 CEST

Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1 'thornicrofti'. This beta includes the newest release of KDE 4, KDE 4.1 final (with initial implementation of the Mandriva Ia Ora theme, although this is not yet complete), and GNOME 2.23.5. It also uses Firefox 3 by default, and kernel 2.6.26 final. The new beta also switches to using splashy (rather than bootsplash) for boot and shutdown graphics, and adds synchronization support for Windows Mobile 2003 devices. As always, we remind you not to use pre-releases in any critical situation; install them only on a test system or partition, or in a virtual machine. Additionally, we strongly discourage using this pre-release to upgrade from any earlier release of Mandriva Linux, as the transition process from KDE 3 to KDE 4 is not yet fully implemented and you are likely to end up with an unusable system. Please make sure to read the Errata and Release Notes, and file any bugs not covered in those pages on Bugzilla.