Mandriva 2011 development & release schedule

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The development plans and release schedule for Mandriva 2011 are here.

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The Mandriva Blog reports that release dates of Mandriva 2011 have shifted by 2 weeks.

 

As a preview was promised for today, they have prepared an additional release, Mandriva 2011 Technology Preview, to show what's in Cooker currently, and what will be available in Alpha.

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Mandriva 2011 Alpha 1 has been released, and should be available in devel/isos/2011 directory on your favorite mirror shortly!

 

More details on the Mandriva Blog.

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The 2nd Alpha version of Mandriva 2011 should be appearing on mirrors shortly.

 

Among the most noticeable features are the simplification of the initial setup steps, both when running the image in Live mode, or before the installation, update to kernel 2.6.37.2, integration of the latest networkmanager-mdv plugin by Andrey Borzenkov, switch from scim to ibus for input framework, more indepth systemd integration into the system, and, of course, lots of packages updates all around.

 

News from Mandriva Blog.