Kicking off the 2008 Spring development cycle in earnest,
the first alpha is here. This alpha features X.org 7.3, KDE 3.5.8, KDE 4.0 RC2 (in /contrib), GNOME 2.21, kernel 2.6.24, OpenOffice.org 2.3, new NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers, PulseAudio by default and more. It is in a fairly stable and reliable state, though as always, we do not suggest you use it in a production environment. It is available in Free and One editions, with i586 and x86-64 DVDs for the Free edition and an i586, KDE-based CD for the One edition. For this pre-release, we are particularly interested in testing PulseAudio and hardware detection. Please report any problems with sound functionality, and any mis-detected or un-detected hardware, to
Bugzilla. Of course, please also report any other problems you run into. You can also discuss the alpha in the
official forums (and here, of course!). Download locations are available
on the Wiki page: it may take a few hours for the files to be copied to all mirrors.