Mandriva Linux 2009 Alpha 1: no public release

Published by awilliamson on Thursday, June 26 2008 @ 11:49:59 CEST

Those of you who saw the recent announcement of the Mandriva Linux 2009 release schedule may be wondering about the status of Alpha 1, which was scheduled for public release on June 25th. Due to some major problems in this release relating to X.org, the migration from KDE 3 to KDE 4, and generation of One images, we have decided not to make a public release of Alpha 1. If we had waited to resolve these problems before releasing Alpha 1 it would have come out only a few days before Alpha 2, not allowing enough time for much real testing. Therefore Alpha 1 will exist only as an internal release, and will not be made public. The first public pre-release for Mandriva Linux 2009 will now be Alpha 2, which will be released according to the announced schedule, on July 10th.